Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast
Hosted by Chris Russell, online recruiting's mad scientist, the RecTech podcast covers all aspects of recruiting technology and recruitment marketing including interesting new tools & vendors. You'll also hear how recruiters leverage technology to find talent. A great listen for HR tech vendors, HR professionals and recruiters everywhere. CONTACT: chris@rectechmedia.com
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Why This ATS is Making Job Seekers Part of Its Mission
<p>In a candid conversation with Chris Russell on the RecTech Podcast, Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait reveals the company's bold pivot to focus on job seekers alongside employers. After 14 years of helping companies hire better, Greenhouse is tackling what Chait calls the "AI Doom Loop"—a vicious cycle where job seekers use AI to mass-apply to hundreds of jobs while overwhelmed employers deploy AI filters to narrow down thousands of undifferentiated applications, tightening the window for candidates and perpetuating the problem. To break this cycle, Greenhouse is launching features like My Dream Job (allowing candidates one premium application per month th...
Boomband Lands $4M, Apploi Acquired
<p>ClearanceJobs bookings returned to year-over-year growth, rising 3% to $14.6 million. Executives attributed this momentum to a record federal defense budget and the early stages of hiring “tailwinds” within the defense sector.</p> <p>https://hrtechfeed.com/dhi-group-returns-to-growth-in-defense-sector-announces-new-10-million-share-buyback/</p> <p> Viventium announced Wednesday the acquisition of Apploi, a leading healthcare recruitment and scheduling platform. The merger creates a first-of-its-kind, nationally scaled Human Capital Management (HCM) platform designed exclusively for the post-acute care market. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-hiring-tool-acquired/ </p> <p>Boomband, an AI-native talent marketplace founded by Monster.com creator and entrepreneur Jeff Taylor, today announced Boomband’s upcoming launch and the cl...
Mike Wolford has an AI Recruiting Playbook
<p> recent podcast episode, Michael Wolford, author of AI Recruiter 2.0, discussed how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the recruiting industry by automating administrative tasks and empowering recruiters to focus on what they do best: building relationships and adding real value.</p><p> </p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices</p>
Ziprecruiter, Fountain and ADP
<p>Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more.</p> <p>AND by jobcase, "Are you struggling to find the right talent in a crowded job market? Jobcase connects you to a massive community of over 120 million registered workers, including the hourly, skilled, and gig professionals that other job boards often miss. Visit jobcase.com/hire today to post your roles and start building the team you need with tools designed to make...
Eightfold Gets Sued by Job Applicants
<p>Use code IAM-ChrisRussell for your free pass to IAMPHENOM in Philly March 10-12. Click Here.</p> <p><br></p> <p>TOP STORIES </p> <p>Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday accusing Eightfold of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act </p> <p>https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-is-being-sued-by-2-job-applicants/</p> <p>Chandler, Ariz. — Vensure Employer Solutions (Vensure), a leading provider of HR/HCM technology, managed services and global busines...
5 Essential Content Pieces for High-Performing Career Sites
<p>To attract and convert top talent, your career site must be more than just a place to search jobs. It needs to be a rich, authentic destination that clearly answers the candidate’s core question: “What will my life be like if I work here?”</p> <p>On top of that, candidates are now using AI to ask those questions so its imperative for employers to provide answers for the search engines to crawl which now includes sites like ChatGPT and Perplexity.</p> <p>With that in mind we came up with five content pieces that are essential for building a c...
Acquisitions in the News
<p>Phenom, the leader in applied AI that helps organizations hire faster, develop better, and retain longer, today announced it acquired Included, an AI-native agentic people analytics platform that surfaces actionable insights for faster, smarter workforce decision-making.</p> <p>https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-included-ai/</p> <p>Employers.io has acquired Job-Applications.com with one clear goal: rebuild it for today’s job market while keeping what made it useful in the first place. </p> <p>https://hrtechfeed.com/employers-io-acquires-job-applications-com-to-rebuild-and-modernize-a-trusted-job-search-platform/</p> <p>A couple of new CEo announcements</p> <p>Oyster®, the global employment solution to employ, pay, and care for distributed teams...
Why Job Throttling may Be Coming to the ATS
<p>We are living through a unique convergence in the labor market. A wave of high-profile layoffs has created a massive pool of eager talent. Simultaneously, generative AI has democratized corporate-grade automation for the individual job seeker. Tools that auto-apply, perfectly tailor resumes to keywords in milliseconds, and blast applications across platforms are now commonplace.</p> <p>We have removed all friction from applying. The result isn't a talent pool; it's a talent deluge.</p> <p>Employers and ATS vendors are realizing that the old floodgates cannot hold. We are seeing the first signs of a defensive build-up.</p> <p>...
Veroskills Promises Hire Ready Blue Collar Talent
<p>In this episode, we dive deep into the future of blue-collar hiring with Daniel Walsh, CEO and founder of Veroskills, and podcast host Chris Russell. Discover how Veroskills is leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to close the $1 trillion labor gap in the skilled trades and blue-collar sectors.</p> <p>veroskills.com</p><p> </p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices</p>
Indeed Flexes into New Markets
<p>Ben, a London-based platform using AI to help global enterprises manage employee benefits, has raised $27.5m o accelerate its product roadmap and strengthen its go-to-market capabilities to meet the growing demand.</p> <p>https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-benefits-platform-raises-27m/</p> <p>AUSTIN, Texas — Indeed Flex, the online marketplace for flexible and temporary work, today announced its entry into eight new markets in the U.S. The company’s expansion will enable employers to rapidly fill roles and boost operational efficiency, while empowering job seekers with comprehensive benefits and greater control over their work lives.</p> <p>https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-flex-launches-8-new...
