What if Craigslist had a mobile ATS?

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

Today we'll speak with Thad Price. Thad is VP of Product & Engineering at Jobs2Careers, where he sets the vision for new product development and strategy. With over 14 years of experience in online recruitment and the job search vertical, he uses his cross-functional experience to directly manage the company’s product and engineering teams.

Jobs2Careers just launched a new standalone app for anyone who uses Craigslist to post jobs. It's called ipply and you can see it in action in the video below.  Download the app at ipply.io.

Questions in this podcast include;

• What is ipply?

• Why did you start with Craigslist instead of J2C?

• What does ipply mean?

• What sparked the creation of ipply?

• Who’s the audience?

• How does it work? (walk us through user experience)

• Did you have to partner with Craiglist at all in order to launch the app?

• How does ipply help Craigslist posters?

• How much time does ipply take to setup?

• How do I get access to the beta?

Every HR Tech Vendor Needs an Explainer Video

We just helped the team at Pomato launch their new explainer video. It's a 90 second clip that boils down their product in a visual storytelling format to help their product stand out.

As a vendor in the HR tech space an explainer video is a must have in our opinion. 

It provides the appearance of legitimacy that will help with how HR sees you. You are showing potential clients that you’ve invested time in explaining your company, which translates into customers assuming that you’ve invested time in creating your product as well.

It makes you STAND OUT in a crowded HR tech marketplace. It doesn't even have to be expensive.

We can make a 90 second explainer video (with voiceover) for your business for under $700. We'll help you craft the script and get it online in just a few weeks. Contact us to get started.

Podcast: Matt Lucas Founder of JobMonkey.com

Matt Lucas is the co-founder and President of JobMonkey.com.  The website was launched in 1999 and has become the premier website for people looking for "Cool Jobs" in the United States or Abroad.

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Prior to JobMonkey, Lucas founded and ran a number of companies including a travel company, a college marketing company, a publishing company, and a company that sold suntan lotion out of real coconut shells.

Matt is also an active member of the Seattle startup community and has invested in and / or mentored over 30 Pacific Northwest startup companies.

Topics Include

• Tell us how you started Jobmonkey

• What is Jobmonkey...Give us the overview of site visitors, number of jobs, etc...

• Are you in the busy season now with summer here?

• What should recruiters know about recruiting this type of worker that would help them recruit better?

• What's a typical day like for you?

• Any advice for job seekers entering the seasonal/resort industry?

RecTech Insider for June

Greeting RecTechies. Here is a roundup of whats happening inside the world of recruitment technology. 

• SimplyHired Shutting Down. Links to various coverage across the web. [click here]
• Glassdoor raises 40 million in new "Series H" round of funding. Company now valued at $1 billion. Thats a big number for the employer review site. But they're going to need it to take on the likes of Indeed.  [click here]
• Take the Interview, the video interview platform based in NYC at TalentTech Labs announced last month they have secured $5 million in funding. [click here]
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2016: 6 Startups Transforming the Career and Hiring Industry. I'm not sure why they are calling these transformative. Yuemey seems to be the most interesting of the six. [click here]
• Recruit reported Indeed.com net sales jumped 60% to $696 million in the fiscal year. The company also owns job boards in Japan, including Rikunabi, a job board for new graduates. Investor Fred Wilson said in a blog post recently that they (indeed) is now vaued at 2-3X revenue which puts them around $2 billion. They were acquired for $1.4 billion.
• Reflektive is a ‘How do I keep people engaged?' platform which just raised $13million in funding. [click here]
• Humanyze, a people analytics technology company raises $4 million dollars in funding. Company based in Boston, funding by Romulus Capital. [click here]
• Technical recruiting platform Triplebyte, which has raised $3 million in funding, just launched its engineer genome project to foster software-driven, intelligent job-matching. [click here]
• It’s been just over a year since women’s job review startup Fairygodboss launched as an alternative to established career sites like Glassdoor and Indeed. In that time, the company has collected more than 22,000 reviews and tips about company culture and benefits submitted by women workers. [click here]
• Blendoor a mobile app, hides a candidate’s name, age, employment history, criminal background, and even their photo, so employers can focus on qualifications. Interviewing.io—currently in private beta—is an interviewing platform that is taking the concept of anonymizing one step further. Even the voices are masked. [click here]
• Après is a new job marketplace that is targeted toward moms who want to opt back into their careers. It will be a marketplace for both full- and part-time positions, consulting projects, maternity fill-in positions, and pro-bono opportunities across a wide range of industries. [click here]
• TalentPool a matching system software has received $427k in seed funding. Its investors include Stephen Warrington and Kingsley Duffy. 
• On-demand labor marketplace HireAthena officially launched out of stealth. HireAthena, which offers accounting, payroll and HR services, is a spinoff of BackOps and Scalus, and is backed by Sherpa Capital, Google Ventures, e.ventures, DCVC, Crunchfund and high-profile angel investors including Naval Ravikant, Max Levchin, and Mark Pincus. 
• UpScored launches job-matching platform for applicants and employers. [click here]
• Ratedly founder Joel Cheesman Interview on his new employer rating app. [click here]

For Sale: Successful Niche Job Board in Financial Sector

I’ve been asked to help broker the sale of TreasuryJobs.com, the only niche job board that serves that sector of the financial job market in the United States. The site launched in 2014 and has significant double digit sales with a strong history of growth since its inception. The site is hosted on theForceFinder job board software platform.

This is a RARE opportunity to not only get into the online recruiting space, but to buy a business with few direct competitors. It offers excellent expansion possibilities and comes with everything you need to run the business. The founders have done the hard work of building the foundation, all you have to do is take the baton, and keep running.

Some notable aspects of this sale include the following;

• You get additional country domains such as treasuryjobs.ca, treasuryjobs.co.uk, .br, and .in to aid a global expansion.
• You get a site that holds the #1 spot on all major search engines for the term treasury jobs.
• You get to work with some of the largest and most prestigious companies in the world.

So if this opportunity excites you please call 203-572-2053 or contact me to learn more. I can break down some additional details and get you started.

New Client: AviaNation.com

I just helped the team at AviaNation to replatform and relaunch their industry leading aviation job board. Online since 2002, the site was formerly a membership based site which charged job seekers a small monthly fee to get first crack at jobs. 

But over the years that business model had dwindled and their technology had gone stale. So I switched them to the Jobboard.io platform and we made the site pay per post for employers. Job seekers now can use it at no cost. 

I'll be acting as the sites marketing person going forward. If you need to find some aviation talent (pilots, flight attendants, mechanics), now you know where to go.

Lets Do This.