Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Workramp, Ramped and Wedge

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ramped, a platform for job skilling and recruitment, has closed a $3.1 million seed round of financing…They’ll use the money to focus on sales and...

Building Your Personal Brand As A Recruiter

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Candidates and employers think that TA is full of shady people looking to make their money the easiest way possible without actually trying to help an...

Talent.com Strikes Gold

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rolebot, Inc. raised $4.5 million for its AI-powered job board for top-tier, passive talent —investors include Jason Calacanis, and the LAUNCH fund....

HR POD SQUAD

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On this panel: Joey Price (Jumpstart HR), Chris Russell (RecTech Media), Jessica Miller-Merrell (Workology), Steve Browne  (Chief People Officer @ La...

Instant Money and Findem Finds Funding

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Modern Hire, the hiring platform for video interviewing and pre-hire assessments, today announced the release of Automated Interview Creator (AIC). …...

Qualifi Wants to Automate Your Phone Screens

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Darrian Mikkell is the CEO and co-founder of Qualifi…. an on-demand screening platform that recently launched. According to Darrian…“Phone inter...

2 Acquisitions in Rec Tech

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jobcase, a social platform for hourly workers, announced the acquisition of recruitment marketing platform Recruitology to bolster the company’s ab...

Thad Price, CEO of Talroo

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The CEO of Talroo stops by to talk about recruiting IS marketing and also gives us a peak into some cool new recruitment technology coming soon to the...

WorkWhile, Social Screening and Employ Inc

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alcor, a cloud solutions company, announced the new release of their Applicant Tracking System, TalentRun. It is an automated, self-service enterprise...

Training Recruiters & Hiring Managers

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recruiters and hiring managers are like snowflakes. No, we don’t mean sensitive or egotistical and thinking they need a trophy just for participatin...

Alongside, Mindscope, Qualifi, and Check

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Staffing software company Mindscope has been acquired by the Univerus group of businesses. After several months as a Mindscope customer, Univerus ide...

So how's your job apply process?

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Karl Wierzbicki the VP of Marketing for InFlight will stop by to discuss his company's recent findings around the state of the job apply flow, a c...

Checkr, Enboarder & Woven

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leading off the show today is Enboarder, the People Activation Platform enabling companies to transform their people programs into simple, science-ba...

Alison Kaizer, Head of Talent at Lunchbox

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alison Kaizer leads Talent at Lunchbox, one of the fastest growing foodtech start-ups in the industry. Lunchbox provides next-gen digital ordering sof...

EZ Rebrand & Multiple HR Tech Acquisitions

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sourcing platform Hiretual is now HireEZ and they just received a new influx of $26 million in new funding. The company which is based inMountain view...

Laskie's Candidate Matchmaking Platform

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Laskie is a new matching platform that leverages human sourcers and tech to match talent in remote engineering, product, design, marketing, and sales...

Bearclaws and Birds

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Crosschq, the reference chack platform has announced the launch of Crosschq Recruit, a sourcing tool built specifically to help companies source quali...

Enboarder's Chief People Officer

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In her new role at Enboarder, Laura Lee Gentry is responsible for leading their talent and culture functions, focusing on building and investing in e...

New Investment Fund for HR tech startups

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

HR technology veteran entrepreneurs Greg Moran and Ira Grossman announced the launch of Evergreen Mountain Founder’s Fund 1. The $20m fund will be f...

Jobsync Recruitment Marketing Roundtable: Heidi Pancake

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded from Jobsync's recent zoom roundtable, this audio features an industry wide discussion about candidate and worker engagement. Learn more abou...

Canvas, Seekout, Vangst and More

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Diversity Job Marketplace Canvas.com which rebranded itself last year from Jumpstart, was recently ordered to stop using the Canvas.com domain by a ju...

Tech Recruiting with Andela

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andela.com is a global marketplace of technical talent. CEO Jeremy Johnson stops by to tell us the origins of this recruitment platform that recently ...

Payfit, Snagajob, Talent Inc and Justworks

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

PayFit, a leading payroll and HR management solution for SMEs, today announced that it has raised €254M in a Series E funding round, a record-breaki...

Dissecting the Facebook Jobs Shutdown

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Facebook is shuttering its public jobs marketplace. Alex Murphy, CEO of Jobsync stops by to talk about what happened. Learn more about your ad choices...

TriNet and Paradox in the News

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

TriNet, a leading provider of human resources solutions for small and medium-size businesses(SMBs), today announced it has entered into a definitive a...

HR Pod Squad Recaps 2021

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The crew wraps up the year in recruiting and HR tech. TOPICS What we'll remember about this year? Have we hit peak HR tech funding? What will hiri...

GoodJob and Making Sense

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Clovers a human resources technology firm leveraging interview intelligence to improve interviewing and hiring practices, today announced Zoom Video C...

MetaView, JobandTalent and More

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jobandtalent – a workforce marketplace that matches workers with temporary roles – announced it secured $500 million in equity investment from Kin...

Workday, VideoMyJob and RNL

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

VideoMyJob CEO David Macciocca said on Linkedin this week that the Australian based video startup has raised $2 million in new funding. “With the n...

Leslie McIntyre-Tavella from Culpeo HR

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leslie McIntyre is one of my oldest friends int he HR industry, She has a new book about and a new HR consulting firm. https://culpeohr.com Buy her ...

QuickHire, Crosschq, HiringSolved

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Linkedin now lets users choose which type of job preferences they want to be found for. These include on-site, remote and hybrid. It’s a sign that j...

State of the Job apply

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

New research from InFlight Corp suggest employers still have too long of an apply process. Designing and executing a quantitative study of your compa...

Seasoned, Bullhorn and DHI Group

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Seasoned announced that it has raised $18.7 million in Series A financing to help expand its hiring platform and restaurant worker network to new mark...

Pillar CEO Mark Simpson

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a new HR tech player in town and its name is Pillar.hr….Pillar is all about the interview process and interviewer coaching which they say ...

Fiverr, Fountain and Funding

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lever, a leading Talent Acquisition Suite, has completed a $50 millionSeries D funding round with the Apax Digital Fund. The funding comes as the mark...

HR Tech Pitchfest Finals

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Onwards HR an employee termination platform for HR won this years pitchiest. Here is the audio from the final round of 6 startups. Learn more about yo...

News from Stride, Hackerank, Upwork, Goodtime, Ladder

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

TWIRT this week in rec tech Stride Health, the leader in portable benefits for independent workers, announced that it has raised a $47 million Series...

HR Tech Adoption

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Special episode today ...we have 2 guests for you Gina Alioto is the VP of Brand and Experience with Symphony Talent and Sherri Ratliff is a director ...

Deel Says Lets Make a Deal

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

interviewIA — an interview platform that empowers interviewers to quickly build and deliver more effective interviews and more efficient hiring deci...

HR Tech Interviews: Clovers, TalentCare, Talenya

17 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this audio you'll hear from Doug Leonard of Clovers.ai, Eric Smith from TalentCare and Gal Amog from Talenya. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

HiBob says hello to millions

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pillar, an interview intelligence platform, is announcing its launch today. The platform leverages AI and in-interview coaching to provide companies w...

Recapping HR Tech Conference

09 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a quick recap of my trip to the HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas. You'll also hear a chunk of what Josh Bersin had to say on the state of ...

BrightHire, The Mom Project Get Big Funding

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Smart interview platform BrightHire has secured a $20.5M Series B to further accelerate the growth of their more equitable, faster approach to hiring....

Employer decides to ditch the resume!

03 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

TEAM LEWIS, the global marketing agency, today announced that it is retiring the resume. The initiative is one of many aimed at opening doors to caree...

You're Invited! Diversity Hiring Tech Expo

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Come to the the Diversity Tech Expo on October 7th at 2pm ET. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/diversity-tech-expo-2021 or use diversitytechexpo.com as th...

Code Smoke Signals and Nomad Health Funding

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

CodeSignal, a technical assessment platform dedicated to helping companies, including Facebook, Roblox, Zoom, Robinhood, and others, make data-driven ...

Kathleen Steffey, CEO of Naviga Recruiting

19 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kathleen Steffey is the CEO and Founder of Naviga Recruiting & Executive Search. For 19 years, Naviga has been helping domestic and global business le...

Glassdoor goes Fishing, Humanly Raises VC

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Humanly.io announces a successful momentum raise to continue company growth and product development. Better pre-hire conversations result in better hi...

HR Pod Squad: Cheesman, Gadomski, Laurano, Russell

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Listen in as four industry pundits and personalities talk shop. Joel Cheesman Andrew Gadomski Madeline Laurano Chris Russell Topic: HR tech con...

Checkr Hiring, New Sourcing Tool, DHI bought who?

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Checkr, a leading HR technology company powering the future of work, will open its third headquarters in Orlando, creating more than 600 new jobs in t...

Tim Sackett on College Recruiting

05 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Sackett says college recruiting is a mess. Her wrote:  If you want to hire an upcoming college grad for a job you have, it’s a freaking nightm...

Jobsync's Google for Jobs Discussion

29 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jobsync recently held an excellent discussion that employers need to hear about upcoming changes to Google for Jobs.  Learn more about your ad choice...

Workstream, Knoetic Get Funding

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Job.com, the data-driven, AI-powered recruitment platform, announced today the acquisition of two established staffing firms: Fortus Healthcare Resour...

Creative Sourcing Ideas

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A recent Facebook thread showed some new ways to source talent.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/secret.sourcing/posts/2982596321989376 Learn more ...

RecTech news from SAP, Workrise and More

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A new resume platform called Hiration, which makes it easy for qualified candidates to create the perfect resumes and find their dream role, announce...

Are Big Benefits the New Recruiting Tool?

15 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Walmart and Target announce free tuition for frontline workers. https://www.diversitygator.com/pages/33815-walmart-to-pay-100-of-college-tuition-and...

Polywork Aims for LinkedIn

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Polywork, a new type of business social network has raised $13 million in new funding from Andreesen Hororwitz and other investors. Think of it as an ...

Chloe Rada Talks Employer Branding

08 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chloe Rada brings 20+ years of talent marketing experience and is known for driving big ideas and empowering others to make a positive change for the ...

WorkJam, Deel, Instawork in the News

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

WorkJam, the Digital Workplace for organizations with frontline employees, announced $35 million in growth financing from Silver Lake Waterman. The ...

Evan Sohn, CEO Recruiter.com

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Recruiter.com has been making acquisitions and going public on the Nasdaq. We'll catch up with their CEO Evan Sohn. Learn more about your ad choices. ...

Another Unicorn in HR Tech

30 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Culture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn ...

CEO of Recruitology

25 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today i’ll be chatting with Roberto Angulo, CEO of Recruitology a Cloud-based recruitment platform that leverages artificial intelligence to connect...

Smart Recruiters is the Newest Unicorn

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SmartRecruiters, the recruiting software that I was once a client of announced it closed a $110 million Series E round led by Silver Lake Waterman wit...

TikTok Launches Pilot Program for Video Resumes

18 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A deep dive into what into TikTok new recruiting experiment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diversity Merger Mania

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

 isolved has acquired predictive people analytics platform TrenData HR. The combination helps business leaders and HR professionals move from reacti...

The Great Resignation _ Shane Metcalf from 15five

11 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shane Metcalf is the Chief Culture Officer at 15five. We talked about how the great resignation now underway in the labor market is affecting companie...

A Rebrand and TikTok Video Resumes

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

LinkUp, the leading provider of global job market data, announced their recruitment advertising and job search business has been rebranded as Getwork....

6 Out of the Box Onboarding Ideas

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I found six unique onboarding ideas that you can use to make your new hires feel welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Headlines: Zominfo gets into the sourcing game and more

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ZoomInfo the go-to-market intelligence solution, today announced the general availability of the ZoomInfo Recruiter platform. ZoomInfo Recruiter is ...

Best Job Boards for Tech Talent

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Looking to hire tech talent? Try these 10 favorites. AuthenticJobs.com Angel.co Built In Dice.com F6S.com Hired.com Relocate.me Stack Overflow...

Internal Mobility Software List of Vendors

27 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Standalone solutions....  Worqdrive: We are an internal mobility solution designed to make it easy for your employees to stay. | Link Gloat: I...

Oyster gets $50 Million and good times for GoodTime

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Recruiting platform dotin Inc., which improves the recruitment and retention of new and existing talent, has released of their latest service module, ...

Canvas CEO Ben Herman

20 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Diversity technology platforms are starting to spring up and get funding. The latest entrant into this market is Canvas formerly known as Jumpstart th...

Beamery Makes it Rain, Linkedin Gets Reprieve in Court

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. Supreme Court has given LinkedIn another chance in its legal fight to stop HR technology firm HiQ Labs from scraping LinkedIn user data again...

Crelate CEO Aaron Elder

13 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While traditionally leading the recovery following recessions, experts predict five million Americans will need to find new employment coming out of ...

RecTech Headlines: Eightfold, Talent Inc, Loophire, Stoke, Charthop & More

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eightfold is at it again. After raising a $125 million dollar round round last they just announced a $220 million dollar series E round. Wow. They are...

Spokn offers 'Podcasts for Work' Platform

06 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Podcasts are mainstream now so when I saw the news about Spokn, a startup which helps companies create their own audio I wanted to hear about what the...

Headlines from YellowBird, Eightfold, Cadient, Hibob and Pathrise

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eightfold AI, the provider of the Talent Intelligence Platform™, today announced its integration partnership with Greenhouse, the hiring software c...

Terry Baker, CEO of PandoLogic

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Conversational Ai ---aka recruitment chatbots are being acquired at a record pace, last week Stepstone, a job board company bought Mya and PandoLogic ...

Top Headlines from Spokn, Workrise, DailyPay, Canvas, BrightHire

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Congrats to Ziprecruiter is in order their stock debuted on the NYSE yesterday and closed the first day up 17%...it opened at 18 and closed at just ov...

Jobvite's New CEO Pete Lamson

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Lamson, former CEO of JazzHR now heads up the trio of Jobvite, JazzHR and NXTThing RPO. This merger is a big bet on the long term horizon for rec...

Mergers, Profits and Feeling Stoked

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

StepStone, one of the world’s leading online job marketplaces, has acquired the San Francisco based, Mya, a conversational AI (artificial intelligen...

Creative Recruitment Marketing Strategies to Drive More Applies

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Looking to up your recruitment marketing game in order to stand out in a crowded job market? Well this one hour webinar is here to help! Chris Russell...

Handshake Agreement, Going Blind and Tik Tok for jobs

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

INDIANAPOLIS — An on-demand screening platform called Qualifi which allows recruiting teams to phone interview 100s of candidates in minutes, has ra...

How Chattr Solves High Volume Hiring

09 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The CEO of chatter.ai stops by to talk about current state of retail/restaurant hiring and demo their hiring software tool. Learn more about your ad c...

Headlines from Wedge, Crelate, Lever, InterviewIA and Greenhouse

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

DENVER interviewIA — a technology platform that manages all aspects of the job interview workflow to enable the coexistence of equitable and effici...

Phenom's Jonathan Dale

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Attracting, engaging, and hiring the right candidate starts the moment a job seeker lands on your career site.  As the digital window into your comp...

IPO's, Merger Mania and New Funding

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ceridian a global leader in human capital management (HCM) technology, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ideal, a leadin...

Ziprecruiter IPO: Behind the Numbers

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last friday Ziprecruiter announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to...

Headlines from medReps, Deel, RippleMatch, IBM and Jobilla

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Helskini-based Jobilla has raised €2.16 million. Founded in 2015, Jobilla is aiming to stake its claim in a €450 billion industry, often plagued ...

Grace Tyson Co-Founder of Luma

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Luma is a new interview intelligence platform, which recently launched to help businesses run more intentional interviews and make better hiring decis...

Headlines from Degreed, Hired, Ziprecruiter Fuel50 and More

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Upskilling platform Degreed has raised $153 million in Series D funding. The investment, which was co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Riverwood Capital, ...

Angelo Pancho from Rockwell Automation Talks Recruiting Technology

11 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Angelo Pancho oversees Recruiting Tech Innovation and International Strategic Talent Sourcing for Rockwell International and today we’ll talk about ...

Headlines from Phenom, Dice, Talroo, Workshop, Recruiter

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Recruiting Technology Headlines This week in Rec Tech: Phenom hits the mother load, Workshop gets funded, Talroo unifies its product suite, Dice adds...

RecTech Meetup with Datapeople's Amit Bhatia

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Industry meeting with some industry peeps including the co-founder of Datapeople.io who just received $8 million in VC funds for its talent analytics ...

Hashtagging for Recruiting 101

04 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With Matt Lozar from Haley Marketing this session is all about hashtags for recruiting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rejobify.com Rejection Email Service Demo

04 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rejobify is a service from RecTech Media, that was built to help employers add value to their rejection process….in a way that positively reinforces...

RecTech Headlines from Datapeople, Crosschq and Celential

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sponsored by Cronofy.com Meetup Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlduuuqTwjG9Ygo1L-lnJ5Er6qgMf0imuR Crosschq: https://hrtechfeed.co...

Jonathan Kidder Talks Sourcing Tools

28 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Kidders is a Sourcer at Amazon with 10+ years of talent sourcing experience. In his spare time he writes extensively on recruiting and sourci...

Headlines from Fetcher, Visage, Ziprecruiter, ResumeSieve, iHire and Poach

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduli...