Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

Tim Sackett is well known to the recruiting industry, in fact some might call him HR Famous….He is the President of the Michigan based staffing firm HRU  Technical Resources, he blogs 5 days a week at timsackett.com and he just wrote a book too so we’ll chat about that and much more on today’s show. TOPICS First and foremost...are you still in Indeed jail? Hidden Career site link...I have a bit on this…”Recruiting redneck”...wanna hear it? If you hide the careers link nder the about us menu---u might be a recruiting redneck… If you still have a one page career site, you might be a recruiting redneck If you still post jobs online in PDF format, you might be a recruiting redneck If you still use an excel spreadsheet as your ATS, you might be a recruiting redneck… What else ticks you off about how companies recruit ?How’s the book doing? What can I expect to learn? Whats a day in the life for tim sackett? Most creative thing you ever did to find a candidate? Advice for young recruiter? How can com

Welcome to RecTech’s Recruiting Headlines, powered by Recruitign Headlines.com and sponsored by Rejobify...don’t just reject candidates, Rejobify them! https://www.rejobify.com/   CareerBuilder names first ever female CEO Irina Novoselsky, who joined CareerBuilder in October 2017 as President and Chief Operating Officer, is being named the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Matt Ferguson, following 14 years as Chief Executive Officer, will assume the role of Executive Chairman effective today, helping to oversee the Company’s continued evolution as it invests in mobile, artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide innovative end-to-end employment and HR solutions. Under Ferguson, the company grew its marketing from 16 million unique visitors and 400,000 jobs per year to 200 million unique visitors and nearly 8 million jobs globally last year.   Equest is now distributing to Facebook Jobs The Blast! Network is a group of FREE job boards and career sites where you can post an unlimited amount

Entelo, a leader in recruiting automation and sourcing, recently announced a new feature called  Unbiased Sourcing Mode, allowing companies to anonymize and hide information recruiters or hiring managers don’t want to see in an effort to eliminate unconscious bias based on irrelevant factors.   Here to discuss this new feature and talk more about sourcing is Lisa Holden their Director of Communications. TOPICS INCLUDE: Gearing up for HR tech? Can you explain what Entelo does briefly? “Leader Recruiting automation” I thought you were essentially a sourcing tool... Entelo is introducing Unbiased Sourcing Mode -- what is it? What’s the problem this solves? What’s the motivation behind new tools like this? Does it actually work? What about when you meet the candidate in real life? What has feedback been like so far? What are some best practices for getting diversity and inclusion right? How about companies that do it wrong? Any pitfalls to avoid?   What’s next from Entelo?     Whats your job l

Google for Jobs FAQ https://recruitingheadlines.com/google-for-jobs-employer-faq/ Google Job Search Tweak for Veterans https://9to5google.com/2018/08/28/jobs-for-veterans-google/ Rejobify Webinar Sept 6th 1pm EST https://www.crowdcast.io/e/rejobify

As the head of CareersinGoverment.com, Michael Hurwitz is skilled in Digital Strategy, Advertising Sales, and Integrated Marketing. Along With strong business development skills he holds a degree in Political Science and Government from the University of Iowa. Today he is the President and Co-Founder of a niche job site for the public sector. https://careersingovernment.com/ TOPICS; Brief history of the site… Can you give us a sense of the size of the business...traffic, database, revenue..? How has social media helped you grow and find candidates? Tip for employers? Is Google for Jobs treating you well? Where do you see your site in 5 years? Heard of Jobaps? What other ATS exist for public sector? Advice for other job board owners What’ s one thing you wish employers changed about the way they hire online?

In todays episode of recruiting headlines Chris Russell will talk about: A new job search app that quietly raised $24 million: LINK Facebook Job Alerts - LINK LinkedIn Jobs going Remote Friendly - LINK Amazon paying employees to Tweet nice things? - LINK Thanks for listening. Send your tips, rumors and news stories to chris@rectechmedia.com

I met today’s guest as he drove me and Steve Levy to a dinner hosted by Gerry Crispin in Nashville a few weeks back while i was at the Jobg8 summit...afterwards he also introduced me to Nashville's best dive bar and then the day after he invited me to hang out in the offices of IQ Talent before my flight left. We had time to have lunch, and commiserate for an afternoon while overlooking the Nashville skyline. Chris Murdock is the Co-Founder and Senior Partner of IQ Talent Partners. Chris has over 18 years of executive recruiting experience and leads research and sourcing for the firm while also developing client relationships. Prior to Founding IQTalent Partners, Chris was a Sourcer with Yahoo!'s internal Executive Recruiting team in the corporate offices in Sunnyvale, California. Previous to Yahoo!, Chris was an Associate in the Menlo Park, California office of with Heidrick & Struggles, where he recruited for software, hardware, professional services, and semiconductor clients. Before Heidrick & Struggles

While at the Jobg8 Summit in Nashville a few weeks back I recorded some audio of a panel of tech vendors talking about how this new technology is seeping into the recruiting process. https://www.rectechmedia.com/

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At the recent Jobg8 Summitt in Nashville I ran into Mike Wiston from Crowded. They have a unique platform that refreshes large resume databases and updates individual candidate data by scouring the web. We chat briefly about how it works and find out what he's learned about working with recruiters and HR. 

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On a warm sultry day in central New Jersey I drove down I-95 to New Brunswick just past the campus of Rutgers University and near the headquarters of iconic corporate brand, Johnson & Johnson, to attend a Candidate Experience Workshop run by Kevin Grossman and his team from the Talent Board. The Talent Board is non-profit organization focused on the elevation and promotion of a quality candidate experience. Along with Gerry Crispin and other familiar faces we sat under tents on the immaculate grounds of an executive retreat house often used by J&J senior staff.  In this exclusive audio from the event you will mostly hear from Kevin as he addresses the crowd and covers some statistics from their annual survey as well as other tips and stories from the hiring world.

Claire Petrie is the Talent Acquisition Manager in the Buffalo, NY office for one of the largest specialty staffing firms in North America, Remedy Intelligent Staffing. She has built over six years of diverse HR management experience with privately-owned and publicly-traded global companies that provide hospitality and food service management, medical devices development, and non-dairy frozen food production. Claire holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in HR from the University at Buffalo and an MBA from Niagara University. She is a member of SHRM, the Buffalo-Niagara Human Resources Association and on the DisruptHR Buffalo event planning committee. In this episode we will discuss; What’s new and exciting in your recruiting world? Any challenges recruiting people into Buffalo? Have you heard of ghosting in recruiting? What’s working---What are your primary sources of hiring? Other software tools in your recruiting toolbox? Sourcing stories Plans for social medi

Doug Munro has more than fifteen years' experience recruiting top-flight talent, including key personnel for mission-critical work in the National Defense arena. He’s filled positions in a wide array of areas including Executive Leadership, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Program/Project Management, Contract Administration, and Intelligence Analysis. He’s also well-versed in the security clearance arena and has been involved in a broad spectrum of Federal procurements. TOOLS Mentioned: Ultipro, BambooHR, SkillScout TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RecruitCyberDC TOPICS: What’s new and exciting in your recruiting world? Describe the size of your team, the number of open roles, and types of jobs. Ghosting in recruiting What are your primary sources of hiring? What is your ATS?---they get you on google jobs yet? How’s the apply process What’s working for you/whats not?  referrrals? Other software tools in your HR toolbox? Sourcing stories Sponsored by Hiretual and Rejobify. https://hiretual

Ff you got to Duarte Mendonca's Linkedin profile it will say something that you don't see on most recruiting bios...“Cut me, I will bleed Talent Acquisition” When I read that along with the rest of his profile I knew he should be on the podcast. In today's show we'll cover his HR tech stack and hear how he and his small team of recruiters fill their reqs. TOPICS COVERED Describe the size of your team, the number of open roles, and types of jobs. Ask about ghosting What are your primary sources of hiring? What is your ATS? Text to email trick: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-send-email-sms-text-duarte-mendon%C3%A7a/ Whats working for you/whats not? (have you given up on any tool or tactic recently?) Other software tools in your HR toolbox? Sourcing stories. Podcast Sponsored by Hiretual. -------------------------------------- Contact chris@rectechmedia.com

gr8 People describes themselves as this----a 100 percent purpose-built recruiting platform to deliver the unfair advantage companies demand to compete for talent around the world. Their platform brings together a CRM, recruitment marketing, hiring and on-boarding together; providing a one stop show talent ecosystems. The company, which is based in Newtown Pennsylvania raised an 8 million dollar series B round of funding earlier this year and is continuing to innovate through new functionality and features. Joining me on the phone today is Jack Coapman, Chief Strategy Officer.   Gr8 People has had a busy couple of years can you tell me a brief history of the company and where you are today? Size of company? The name...how did that come to be? memorable... It’s a crowded market in recruiting software, how do you guys differentiate yourself? Ideal customer? What are some companies that use Gr8 People? What have you learned about working with HR that you would tell another HR tech startup to look out

Alan Fluhrer, Talent Acquisition Manager at W.E. O'Neil Construction.  Alan Fluhrer is a 20+ years recruiting professional who has built national teams, improved recruiting processes while always remembering his first mentors words. "This is a business about people...people make the decisions, people get the jobs and relationships are key" Alan likes to prove that that recruiting is a profit center. Saying he’s saved and/or helped companies increase revenues in the ten's of millions. How do you convince management that recruiting is a profit center? You work for a construction company, on a high level what is that like to recruit for? Types of roles you are recruiting for? What are your primary sources of hiring? How to ask for referral Whats working/whats not What is your ATS? Other software tools in your HR toolbox? Sourcing stories from his past

Brad Goldoor: This is Brad Goldoor, co-founder and chief people officer at Phenom People, and I'm next on the Rec Tech podcast. Announcer: Welcome to Rec Tech, the podcast where recruiting and technology intersect. Each month, you'll hear from vendors shaping the recruiting world, along with recruiters who'll tell you how they use technology to hire talent. Now here's your host, the mad scientist of online recruiting, Chris Russell. Chris Russell: That's right. It's time for Rec Tech, the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. Today's show is a vendor edition, but first, the Rec Tech podcast is sponsored as always by our friends at Hiretual, the recruiter's best friend. Hiretual's AI engine is a personal sourcing assistant that works for you 24/7. You can conduct email marketing campaigns, source candidates automatically much more through the new version three interface, so if you want to source more candidates, check out Hire

This is REC TECH….the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. The RecTech podcast is sponsored in part by Hiretual, the recruiters best friend. And Roborecruiter.ai This will be a solo show with just me I put together a list of cool tools employers and recruiters can be using to improve their recruitment marketing efforts. Legend.im - animate 100 characters of text into 6 second video. Free for iOS. Ripl.com - another app, Ripl is a marketing tool in your pocket. Its free for iOS and Android but I pay 10 per month for extra features more templates + add your logo) Turn pictures into video which is great for jobs. Repost for Instagram - repost other people’s content from Instagram. Get it here. HelloBar - use it to highlight a call to action such as a job of the week, news or collect emails. Can be set to appear at top or bottom of your site. After a few secs or even if they try to leave. Download it here. Mailchimp

Welcome to RECTECH….the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. Recruiting is getting more technical in nature so its important for recruiters to stay up to date on the new tools and tactics for success.  The RecTech podcast is sponsored in part by Hiretual, the recruiters best friend. Hiretual’s AI engine is a personal sourcing assistant that works for you 24x7. Check out their new version 3 with a new reporting dashboard, email marketing campaigns that let you automate and track email response rates. They’ve also redesigned the Toolbox area to include more  automation and even Updated their Boolean string functionality. So if you want to find more candidates online check out Hiretual Find them on the web at hiretual.com Show notes Podcast Page: https://www.rectechmedia.com/podcast/ Reminder This show is now syndicated on the HR podcasters network. If you head over to hrpodcasters.com you can find this show and dis