Preview HireCONF NYC with Jeremy Roberts

In the latest edition of RecTech we'll chat with Jeremy Roberts from Hiring Solved which is hosting a one day recruiting event on February 7th in New York City. Use "RecTech" at checkout for 20% off tickets. Register here.

Listen in to hear his thoughts on moving from working with a news site to an HR tech vendor. He'll also tell you what to expect for the conference and gives some interesting insights for HR tech marketers.

Jeremy Roberts, Hiring Solved

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New Podcast! Beyond's Joe Stubblebine Discusses Recruiting by Text

Joe Stubblebine is the VP of talent solutions and employer sales at Beyond.com---he’s a veteran of the online recruitment industry ...for those of you who don't know Joe he was the founder of Jobcircle.com a regional job board that served the Mid-atlantic states back in the 2000s.

He eventually sold that company to Beyond a few years ago and has remained with them ever since. View his profile on Beyond.

In this episode we will discuss their new Text2Hire messaging service for employers (get 10% OFF by clicking here). We'll also chat about the industry as we head into 2017. I think you'll find his stats around texting and engagement will be eye opening and could prove to be the next wave of reaching candidates.

How To Recruit on Facebook

Third party recruiter Esra Oziskender who runs HR Link Consulting in NYC talks about how she sources and places candidates on the Facebook social network.

Listen to this 20 minute conversation where sho offers her tips and tricks for recruiting on Facebook.

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New Podcast: Ray Tenenbaum from GreatHires, Interviewing Management Tool

On the Rec Tech Podcast we highlight interesting new technology for recruiting. Recently we were joined by Ray Tenenbaum, Founder of GreatHires.

Ray Tenenbaum is the founder of Great Hires, a recruiting technology startup offering a mobile-first Candidate Interviewing Experience platform for both candidates and hiring teams. Great Hires was named Top HR Product of 2016 by Human Resource Executive Magazine and ranked number 2 in Business Tools in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Brilliant Companies of 2016.

SHOW TOPICS

• One of the more practical new tools i have see in hr tech lately...what was the impetus for creating the app ...tell us more about its origins?
• How does it work for employers?
• Why is making the interview experience so important?
• Describe the user experience for a candidate?
• What have you learned so far about how companies approach interviewing...any takeaways?
• Tell us about the company itself how many employees are you bootstrapped or funded...
• How much does it cost for employers to use it?
• We are living in a time where there has never been more HR technology…..What advice do you have for companies who are overwhelmed with all this new HR technology?

That will do it for this edition of the RecTech podcast. Thanks again to our sponsor and remember to check out Beyond.com/rectech for that special offer of 10% to their text to hire service...Follow Chris Russell on twitter @chrisrussell 

The Rec Tech Podcast is sponsored by the good folks at Beyond.com

How I Recruit - Steven Mostyn

Steven Mostyn, MBA, is a leading expert and innovator in recruitment and sourcing. A bestselling author, he has written for ERE Media/Sourcecon, Recruiting Headlines, Lean Human Capital, HealthcareSource, HR.com/Talent Acquisition Excellence Essentials, and other forms of media. He is also frequently featured as a speaker at recruitment and sourcing seminars.

Check out his new book: Recruiting 101 : the Fundamentals of Being a Great Recruiter

With more than 16 years of experience recruiting and sourcing for some of North America’s largest companies (including Adventist Health System, Aon Hewitt, BP, BMO, IBM, Oracle, and Walmart), Steve has built successful recruiting and sourcing models in corporate, RPO, and agency . These effective models have spanned the financial services, technology, consulting, and health care industries. Steve currently works for Adventist Health System, where he manages a high-performance team of 20 sourcing specialists.

On today's show we'll talk about the sourcing team he built, his new book and get his recruiting and sourcing advice.

Quotable

"The fundamentals are really lost today, especially with young recruiters...there's no engagement with the candidate..."

Steve can be reached via email: steven.mostyn@yahoo.com
and on social media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenmostyn
https://www.facebook.com/stevenmostynmba/
https://twitter.com/top_headhunter

The Rec Tech Podcast is Sponsored by Jobs2Careers

How I Recruit - Laura Frances Merin

In this episode of RecTech: How I Recruit - Laura Frances Merin is a talent acquisition and people operations professional specializing in high-growth startups. She launched her recruitment career with Robert Half and recently served as the Head of Talent for Cue Connect, and these days serves as a People Operations and Recruitment consultant for startups in New York City and Boston.

Laura is passionate about identifying, developing, and coaching sparks of talent, and loves nothing more than helping people map out their next career steps.

Favorite Recruiting Tools

StackOverflow, Greenhouse (ATS), Angelist, Indeed resumes.

Quotable

"I fell into recruitment...I used to do 100 calls a day, that is something that sticks with you...being really comfortable with the sound of your voice, and asking people for things and pivoting on the fly you're gonna get a lot better a lot faster than you think."

Show Topics

• Typical day like recruiting for startups in New York city?

• Biggest challenge about recruiting for startups?

• How do you keep up with technology in order to recruit for it?

• What’s your pitch when you first contact a candidate?

• Let’s talk tech...favorite ATS over the years/worst ATS over the years?

• What other tools are part of your day to day recruiting?

• Describe a typical InMail...subject line, what do you say?

• How much cold calling do you do?

• Your last 3 placements...where did you find them online?

• Of all the people you have placed over the years which one was the most satisfying and why?

• Advice for new recruiters?

Special thanks to show sponsor Jobs2Careers!

Podcast: Jim Milton from student career platform Portfolium

Portfolium is a new student focused site that helps employers target college students and recent grads. I chatted with him by phone to get his take on the new platform, how students view the job search and what they'll be doing with their new round of venture funding.

• Website
• @Portfoliumhq on Twitter
• Funding news via TechCrunch
• @JKmilton

The RecTech Podcast is sponsored by Jobs2Careers

Podcast: The Recruitment Queen Jennifer Schultz

Jennifer Schultz runs the local recruitment site RecruitmentQueen.com. Last week I spoke at her annual HR Summit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After the show I sat down with her and asked her about her business, her background and her strategy for helping employers hire.

RQ provides a full suite of recruiting services which every kind of job board should have. She goes way beyond job postings.

PODCAST: How WorkHere is Changing the Mobile Job Search Landscape

The goal of the RecTech Podcast is to highlight innovative and interesting recruitment technology vendors along with trends shaping the world of online recruitment.

Mike Seidle is the Cofounder and COO of WorkHere a new mobile job search company based in Indiana. Mike is Past Director of Development at DirectEmployers and a former board member on the HR Open Standards Consortium.

Topics and questions from today's show include;

• What is WorkHere and Why did you build it

• Your app works in the browser and on mobile. What do users use more?

• What is the difference in how people look for work between professionals and workers?

• What makes WorkHere different than a traditional job board?

• Describe the user experience for a seeker and employer?

• What's the value proposition for recruiters and employers?

• What have you learned so far about the building apps...any takeaways? How many iterations?

• Funded? Whats Go to market strategy - rest of country?

• Costs?