Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

– Topic: Ford’s TA Process: A Case Study using Kaizen for Data Driving Continuous Improvement – Speakers: Melissa Thompson, Global Head of Talent Acquisition of Ford Motor Company, Leah Daniels, Alex Murphy Watch our insightful discussion on how Ford leverages the Kaizen approach in talent acquisition process improvement. Learn from industry expert Melissa Thompson, Ford’s Global Talent Leader, as she dissects Ford’s successful turnaround on college hiring, and improvements in Ford’s overall hiring optimization, offering practical insights and strategies for your own recruitment journey.

TalentXi, a provider of recruitment programmatic marketing, has announced the launch of its new AI beta program. The beta program now offers companies access to our technology, which is already licensed by several other organizations. TalentXi’s innovative employment branding programmatic advertising platform leverages advanced programmatic advertising algorithms to streamline passive candidate talent acquisition while enhancing recruiter productivity and reducing cost. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-form-talentxi-peopleperhour/ TalentDesk Group’s flagship marketplace for freelancers – PeoplePerHour.com, which originally launched in 2007 and grew into one of the foremost platforms of its kind – is now reinvented with AI-powered Phoenix driving the experience, negating the need for time-consuming database searches and filtering.  https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-form-talentxi-peopleperhour/ Cangrade today announced that it has launched two new products: Candidate Matching and Internal Talent Marketp

If you want to hear what the future of recruiting will sound like check out this audio from my conversation with Max Armbruster the CEO at Talkpush.

  Apploi, a leading provider of workforce solutions for the healthcare industry, announced that Will Plourde has joined the team as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Plourde comes with 20+ years of experience in both the healthcare and human capital management space. https://hrtechfeed.com/apploi-announces-will-plourde-as-new-cto/ Hiring platform Greenhouse,announced its Summer 2024 product releases, including a variety of powerful tools that help companies reduce bias and streamline the hiring process so that they can find great talent even faster. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-greenhouse-agilehro/ The upcoming HR Technology Conference & Exposition® announced that disruptive leadership expert and New York Times bestselling author Charlene Li will present this year’s opening keynote. The annual event will take place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, September 24 – 26, 2024. Li is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 3:45 p.m. PT. https://hrtechfeed.com/leadership-expert-cha

An insightful discussion featuring the founding father of Recruiting Operations, author and industry expert James Colino, and Hiring Operations & DEI thought leader and strategist Nona Renfro, on securing funding and hiring your first recruiting operations expert. James leads Recruitment Operations for Sheetz and literally wrote the book on RecOps. Nona has been an executive advisor for critical talent transformation initiatives, adding Recruiting Operations at companies like Amazon and Google Fiber and working with clients like Revolut (Fintech), Rackspace (Tech), Ericsson (Telco), Verifone (Banking), and L3 (Defense). James and Nona joined the JobSync Recruitment Roundtable to discuss proven strategies to secure initial funding to build a Recruiting Operations function and help us all understand the key factors in making a successful first Rec Ops hire.

Leading U.S., U.K., and India tech hiring platform hackajob has introduced hackajob intelligence, an end-to-end hiring platform designed to transform the way tech teams are built and managed. The new feature aims to streamline the entire hiring process from a single prompt. https://hrtechfeed.com/hackajob-launches-end-to-end-ai-assisted-platform-for-tech-hiring/ iCIMS announced availability of its summer release …This release is designed to help organizations worldwide build stronger candidate connections and faster recruiting workflows with AI-powered products and capabilities.  Sense announced the launch of its Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) platform. This comprehensive solution streamlines the entire talent acquisition process by centralizing candidate data, communications, and engagement in a single, user-friendly platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-icims-and-sense/ CHICAGO – RiseKit, a purpose-built software platform that enables economic mobility by connecting underrepresent

In the last of my SHRM 24 conversations I chatted up Mike Stafiej the CEO of employee referral tool ERIN. Travel sponsored by Jobcase.com

In my latest SHRM 24 conversation we’ll talk to Jenifer Dulski the founder of team performance software Rising Team. The company recently raised 8 million in funding and we’ll find out more about this new hr tech startup. Rec Tech Media travel to SHRM is sponsored by Jobcase.com  

Recorded live at SHRM24 in Chicago, Kahina Ouerdane, Chief People Officer of Workleap. Kahina has been mastering the art of managing people for more than a decade, previously at PwC as a consultant, and now at Workleap. RecTech Media travel sponsored by our friends at Jobcase.com  

At the SHRM 24 expo in Chicago I sat down with Yutaka Takagi, Principal Product Evangelist at isolved along with one of their customers to get her feedback with the HCM platform. RecTech travel sponsored by Jobcase.com

Adam Posner, founder of managing director of NHP Talent Group, a boutique NYC based ING agency with expertise in marketing, media and advertising. He's also also the Pause where he interviews top experts, entrepreneurs and thought leaders from the world of entrepreneurship, TA and personal growth and other world-class, amazing humans on their insights into their own career journey. RecTech Media Travel sponsore by Jobcase.com

Randstad NV, the world’s leading talent company, has reached an agreement to form a joint venture combining its job board business, Monster, with CareerBuilder, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo. https://recruitingheadlines.com/monster-careerbuilder-joining-forces/ PHILADELPHIA —- Phenom today announced its acquisition of Tydy, a human resources technology company focused on delivering phenomenal preboarding and onboarding experiences for employees – from hire to retire. The fifth acquisition and addition to the Intelligent Talent Experience platform portfolio fortifies Phenom’s vision to shorten time to productivity for employees, while creating efficient experiences for HR practitioners, all from one platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-onboarding-platform/ Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, announced it has been recognized as a leader in 66 of the 2024 G2 Summer reports and has ranked #1 in 29 of them, including Best Applicant Tracking System, Best Enterpr

Jocelyn King, SHRM-SCP is the CEO and Founder of VirgilHR, a SaaS solution that empowers HR professionals to make smart, compliant employment and labor law decisions in real-time. We discussed a lot around compliance particularly as it pertains to recruiting. HR has been the passion and focus of Jocelyn’s entire career as she’s supported high-growth technology start-ups and public companies throughout her tenure. She defines herself as a true HR generalist and has touched on all aspects of HR in her more senior roles. Jocelyn has strong expertise in creating and executing HR strategy, managing employee relations for multi-state and global organizations, developing a diverse and high-performing work culture, owning organization development and change management, and crafting the total reward, talent development, and talent acquisition strategies. Recorded live from SHRM 24 in Chicago. RecTech Medi aTravel sponsored by Jobcase

Laura Maffucci is G-P’s Head of HR, and she leads the company’s global workforce, talent, and employee experience. She operates from a people-first mindset and strongly believes that diversity of thought is paramount for a healthy workspace.  Laura previously held leadership positions in the Global Total Rewards team at G-P, from Sr. Director to VP. Before this, she led Total Rewards & HRIS at Progress, a tech company focused on products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact applications. Prior to Progress, she held roles of increasing responsibility with Ocean Spray Cranberries, where she was awarded HR Award for Innovation and Creativity (2016). Her tenure at Ocean Spray Cranberries was preceded by roles with an emphasis on compensation and HR practices. In her 20+ year career in HR, Laura has spoken on global and national platforms about compensation, employee well-being and mental health. She’s a staunch advocate for the employee experience and creating a culture of inclusivity. Laura is passionate

Top stories for This week in RecTech: SAN FRANCISCO — KarmaCheck, a technology-based solution for background checks, credentialing, and compliance, announced today that it has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by Parameter Ventures… The company will leverage the funding to accelerate development of its proprietary technology platform, scale its exceptional service levels to more customers and candidates, and expand into new industry verticals. https://hrtechfeed.com/karmacheck-raises-45-million-series-b-to-modernize-background-checks/ Belgium-based AI-powered skills platform TechWolf, just closed a $42.7 million Series B round. TechWolf was founded out of Ghent University and Cambridge University in 2018. In 2022, it raised a €10M Series A, and two years later, it has seen 12x revenue growth.They use AI to help automate skills matching internally though your existing HRIS systems. https://hrtechfeed.com/belgian-based-techwolf-lands-43m-coming-to-the-u-s/ QUEBEC CITY, Qc. — freelance.c

Legal.io, a Silicon Valley-based hiring platform for flexible, in-house legal talent, has announced that its membership has surpassed 50,000 legal professionals. https://hrtechfeed.com/legal-talent-network-reaches-50k-members/ candidate.fyi, a candidate experience tool, announced that Colin Day, the founder of iCIMS, has joined the company as an advisor. As a pioneer in HR Tech, Colin’s extensive experience and visionary leadership will be instrumental in guiding candidate.fyi’s strategic direction and growth. https://hrtechfeed.com/candidate-fyi-welcomes-colin-day-founder-of-icims-as-new-advisor/ Bullhorn has acquired Textkernel, an industry leader in Sourcing AI solutions. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Textkernel powers over 2,000 customers globally, including eight of the top 10 staffing agencies worldwide and Fortune 500 companies.  https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-acquires-textkernel/ Findem launched a new copilot focused on helping customers more efficiently use its platform for sourcing. Fully inte

Hackajob, the reverse tech hiring platform recently launched a new on demand hiring solution for tech workers…joining meon this episodeto talk about it is their Head of Growth, Luke Coleman. LINK: https://www.rectechpr.com/press-releases/leading-tech-talent-marketplace-hackajob-reacts-to-changing-tech-landscape-with-contract-based-hiring-solution

NEW YORK – Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, today announced it has hired Samir Joglekar as its new Chief Revenue Officer. https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-hires-new-chief-revenue-officer/ BOSTON — JobGet, the fastest-growing app-first hiring platform connecting over 70 million Everyday Workers with the nation’s most recognized brands, today announced the acquisition of Wirkn, a leading ATS in the frontline recruitment market for malls and retail. This move to partner with shopping centers and malls allows JobGet to offer a tailored frontline solution to even more employers and job seekers. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobget-acquires-wirkn/ ClearCompany, a provider of human capital management software, announced it has acquired Brainier Solutions Inc., a leading provider of innovative learning management software. Financial terms were not disclosed. https://hrtechfeed.com/clearcompany-acquires-learning-management-tool/ Hiring software Wizehire, announced its Candidate Texting feature. This new func

Welcome to a new monthly series on the podcast. I am teaming up with the team at Qualifi, a hiring platform that helps recruiters screen, score, schedule, and interview talent before they go cold. Each month they pick a recruiter of the month and for June that recruiter is… Kathleen Armbruster  Currently serving as the Director of Talent Acquisition at consulting firm called Studio Science, Kathleen has significantly contributed to the evolution of recruiting practices within the company. Her innovative recruitment strategies have notably included the integration of all functional groups to foster a culture of accountability and efficiency, which has significantly sped up the hiring process.  Do you know great talent acquisition pro? Nominate them here.

SEATTLE, WA – Chronus, an employee-driven development platform providing mentorship and ERG management, today announces the acquisition of Imperative an employee engagement platform that leverages the power of meaningful 1:1 conversations to help employees own their career through the lens of purpose.  https://hrtechfeed.com/chronus-announces-acquisition-of-employee-engagement-platform-imperative/ BambooHR a leading cloud-based human resource platform, announced Jonathan Leaf as its new chief revenue officer. Leaf will oversee all revenue-generating functions, and be responsible for upleveling their integration and alignment.  https://hrtechfeed.com/bamboohr-appoints-jonathan-leaf-as-new-chief-revenue-officer/ Ashby, a recruiting platform that efficiently scales hiring from startup through enterprise, has raised an additional $30 million in equity financing. This round of funding comes with a vote of confidence from existing investors following a 6X growth in revenue. To date, the company has raised rou