

Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast
Chris Russell
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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Oct 10, 2022 • 7min
Goodtime.io Product Update
I sat down with Goodtime.io CEO to find out whats new with the hiring and scheduling platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 7, 2022 • 4min
Employee Referral Tool Gets Funding
ERIN, a leading employee referral platform, today announced the closing of a $5 million financing round led by Reformation Partners.“Growth over the last year has been incredible. ERIN is now the employee referral platform for over 1.5 million employees in 100 countries” said Mike Stafiej, CEO. “This round of funding will allow us to keep up with market demand, drive innovative new features, and continue to provide world-class support to our customers”. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-referral-platform-lands-5-million/ NEW YORK — Revelio Labs, the workforce intelligence company, today announced its Series A capital raise of $15 million. The capital will be used to expand Revelio Labs’ offerings for corporate HR and strategy, and comes less than a year after the company raised $4.5 million in seed funding. Since then, Revelio Labs has tripled in size, with over 150 clients ranging from investors to corporate strategists and HR teams, as well as governments. https://hrtechfeed.com/workforce-intelligence-tool-gets-15-million/ JobSync, creators of the first-ever Talent Acquisition Automation Platform (TAAP), and Talent Board, a nonprofit candidate experience benchmark research organization, today released their joint research report, Are Recruiting Technologies Delivering on Their Promise and Potential? Based on a global survey of nearly 250 recruiters and Talent Acquisition (TA) and Human Resources (HR) professionals, the report reveals that the various technologies participants rely on to source, recruit, and hire new talent—technologies that have, in many cases, been in use for more than a decade—still don’t integrate particularly well and often require creative workarounds or the use of manual processes. https://hrtechfeed.com/press-release-new-research-from-jobsync-and-talent-board/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 4, 2022 • 13min
Brazen CEO
Ed Barrientos, CEO, Brazen Virtual hiring events, virtual career fairs, video interviewing, live webinars, live chat, recruiting chatbots, interactive networking events, and so much more. Brazen’s software is the perfect solution for companies, universities, associations, workforce development organizations, and more! Whats new at brazen with the product? Is there a particular feature that your clients love to use? How many virtual events do you host each week Youve exhibited at HR tech for many years what do you get from shows like this? HR tech market has exploded in the last few years, thoughts on that and where we are headed? What makes a good event? Where are virtual hiring events in 5 yrs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 3, 2022 • 12min
Phenom's Intelligent Talent Experience Platform
Jonathan Dale VP of Marketing Kumar Ananth, Exec Director Product Management Good to see you….whats new at Phenom since we met last year? New features: New AI-driven Experiences Provide Enterprises with Deeper Intelligence to Solve Hiring, Development and Retention Challenges
ANY INTERESTING CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES RECENTLY THAT YOU WANT TO MENTION? Hows the hiring market from your standpoint you power hundreds of employers sites…how is their hiring pace? Are we going to have an IAMPHENOM conf in 2023? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 30, 2022 • 4min
Calendly buys Prelude
Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced the acquisition of Prelude, a fast-growing recruiting operations platform designed to build an efficient and delightful hiring process. https://hrtechfeed.com/calendly-acquires-prelude-to-modernize-the-recruitment-scheduling-experience/ Workstream, the mobile-first hiring and onboarding platform for the deskless workforce, today announced it has extended its Series B funding round with an additional close of $60 million, bringing the total Series B financing to $108 million. More than two dozen investors are participating in the oversubscribed extension round, including both institutional funds and angel investors. https://hrtechfeed.com/workstream-lands-another-60-million/ CoRise officially launched its live online upskilling platform to help businesses and individuals acquire the cutting-edge technical skills necessary to remain competitive in today’s market. The CoRise platform features live online courses from top industry experts, a rich community of peers, and leverages technology to deliver high-quality education with real career outcomes at scale. They also secured an 8.5 million seed round of funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-upskilling-platform-for-tech-skills-launches/ Employee Cycle, the leading HR analytics dashboard for small and medium-sized businesses, has closed a $2.5 million seed round of financing, led by Impellent Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-cycle-closes-2-5m-seed-round-to-automate-hr-reporting-process/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 28, 2022 • 13min
Workhuman & Employee Experience
I sat down with Nate Barad, VP Product Marketing at the recent HR Technology Conference to hear about his new experience ad what Workhuman is up to. The employee experience seems to be one of the bigger trends this year talk about how WorkHuman helps to create a better experience for employees Can you walk me through the features of your product? Any anecdotal customer stories you've overheard recently about how they use the platform? Whats the one or 2 most used features of WorkHuman? Anything new coming out? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 27, 2022 • 14min
HR Tech Coverage: Zoominfo
I sat down with the product team (Darrel Grissen & Lauren Hogan) from Zoominfo at the recent HR Technology Conference to hear about the new TalentOS data product they sell to recruiting teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 26, 2022 • 1h 1min
Making Your Own Success in Recruiting
Amy Miller, Owner of Recruiting in Yoga Pants and former recruiter at Google and Microsoft leads our next roundtable to share her process to sit in the driver’s seat to create recruiting opportunities. Amy knew that attracting candidates had to consist of more than just scouring LinkedIn and sending emails with witty subject lines. She took candidate attraction into her own hands and has created an online community of over 6k YouTube subscribers, 60k LinkedIn followers, and 12k Twitter followers. What’s the secret sauce? https://www.jobsync.com/post/making-your-own-success-in-recruiting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 22, 2022 • 6min
Several New HR Tech Funding Announcements
The Muse, a values-based job search and career development platform used by 75 million people annually, is proud to announce $8 million in new investment led by MBM Capital, founded and run by managing partners Lauren Bonner and Arun Mittal. The investment is a result of The Muse’s progressive vision to bring together key players in the future-of-work arena. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-muse-gets-more-funding/ Knoetic, the #1 Chief People Officer (CPO) platform and “single source of truth” for people analytics, today announced its $36M Series B. https://hrtechfeed.com/knoetic-raises-36m-series-b-empowering-chief-people-officers-to-make-better-data-driven-decisions/ SilkRoad Technology, the world-class talent acquisition leader, announced today the addition of person-to-person texting and SMS notifications in its RedCarpet Onboarding solution and On-demand Talent Campaigns (OTC) at its annual user conference, Connections. These powerful capabilities will enable organizations to source, attract, convert, engage and retain talent amidst the most dynamic talent economy in recent memory. https://hrtechfeed.com/silkroad-technology-announces-texting-features-for-onboarding/ Polywork, the professional network, just announced $28 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO) and Caffeinated Capital with participation from existing and new investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Baron Davis, Bungalow Capital, Daniel Gross, Elad Gil, Fidji Simo, Maverick Carter and the founders of Stripe, Lyft, Clubhouse, Instacart, Lattice, Minted, and Divvy Homes. https://hrtechfeed.com/professional-network-platform-gets-28m-in-funding/ Sourcing platform Findem has raised $30 million in Series B financing. This round brings their total funding to $37.3 million. Four Rivers and Quarry Ventures led the round, with participation from our existing investor Wing Venture Capital. https://hrtechfeed.com/findem-lands-30m-investment/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 21, 2022 • 15min
Indeed's EVP Maggie Hulce
I sat down with Indeed EVP Maggie Hulce to find out what new at the job search giant. Recorded live from HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


