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.
If you are looking to start a new HR tech product, job board or other recruiting service these 76 domains I was just altered to may be a good find. You can find them all listed on this webpage, below is a screenshot for what they are like.
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Last week HR Tech happened in Chicago. Here are my pics from the week.
As part of the RechTech podcast we will be interviewing recruiters in the trenches to get their thoughts on how they recruit and what technologies they use to be successful. As the first recruiter to appear on the show I'd like to introduce Ben White from Titus Talent. Ben is an experienced sourcer who talks to us about how he finds candidates online.
Here's a roundup of recruitment technology that has made news in the past 30 days.
NEW LAUNCHES
Facebook at Work set to launch. Like an Intranet for your business.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/27/facebook-for-work/
Impraise: New NYC startup lets you give your coworkers anonymous feedback
http://www.builtinnyc.com/2016/09/20/impraise-tech-modern-performance-review
TILR: Cincinnati startup launched a new app over Labor Day weekend designed to connect business owners with on-demand employees and circumvent the lengthy recruitment process. The way it works is rather than having a company or employer post a job, review resumes, screen potential temporary employees by phone, interview them in-person, make a hiring selection and then onboard them, the employer tells Tilr what it needs and the app will find the right person for the job.
HiringSolved will soon unveil what it considers “Siri for recruiting,” an artificial intelligence assistant for recruiters. His name will be RAI, pronounced like the name Ray, and standing for “Recruiting Artificial Intelligence.” The company has been working on it for five years, and is still perfecting it. The gist of it is you’d ask recruiting questions to a Chatbot-like system. So, instead of checking off a bunch of boxes, you’d type something like, “I need to find 10 female developers with experience using WordPress, within 10 miles of Milwaukee.”
http://www.eremedia.com/ere/a-cousin-of-siri-is-coming-to-the-recruiting-field/
LinkedIn has given a facelift to its desktop publishing platform to encourage more post engagement from its professional user base.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linkedin-unveils-its-new-blogging-platform/
LinkedIn: A year and a half ago, LinkedIn plunked down $1.5 billion for Lynda.com, the huge online learning site. Today, at an event in its San Francisco office, the company introduced LinkedIn Learning, a set of new features that incorporate Lynda.com courses into LinkedIn itself, so that members can find and take courses, see which ones their connections are taking, and otherwise learn skills that are useful to their careers, all within the context of LinkedIn. They're available starting today.
https://news.fastcompany.com/linkedin-rolls-learning-into-its-network-continues-to-dream-big-4019822
Joberate releases tool that indicates job search activity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/09/06/this-software-startup-can-tell-your-boss-if-youre-looking-for-a-job-2/
Indeed is taking aim at Southern California's high tech market, with the launch of its Indeed Prime in the market. According to Indeed, the service--specifically targeted at technology talent--will give employers access to a "curated pool" of people, based on coding skills, education, and work experience. The Indeed Prime service--unlike a typical job board or resume bank--specifically screens and prequalifies professionals with technical skills, such as software engineers, developers, UI/UX designers, and product managers. Indeed said it specifically launched the service in Los Angeles due to the high demand for techical professionals in the market.
http://www.socaltech.com/indeed_targets_tech_talent_in_los_angeles/s-0067041.html
CKR Interactive, a leader in recruitment marketing and communications, aims to reinvent the way employers engage talent with a newly launched visual job description service. In an increasingly competitive recruitment landscape, it is imperative for organizations to continue exploring new and innovative ways to attract top talent. As candidates job search preferences and needs evolve, so must the strategy to engage them. Visual.jobs
ACQUISITIONS
CareerBuilder is up for sale according to TEGNA, its owner. Speculation is that another staffing firm will buy it.
http://www.eremedia.com/ere/careerbuilder-put-in-play-by-its-broadcast-owner/
Glassdoor Acquires Brazil’s Love Mondays to Expand Into Latin America: Earlier this year, Glassdoor raised $40 million at a $1 billion valuation; and now it is putting some of that investment to use to grow internationally. The employee review and job-search platform has acquired Love Mondays, a startup based out of Sao Paulo that also lets workers post reviews of their workplaces. It’s even been described as “the Glassdoor of Latin America”
Shiftgig, the mobile on-demand job marketplace has acquired BookedOut, a Chicago-based start-up that matches workers with hourly gigs. The acquisition adds 10,000 more vetted workers to Shiftgig’s network and should help the company as it competes nationally.
https://www.aimgroup.com/2016/09/21/shiftgig-buys-bookedout/
NEW FUNDING
Jobbio, a career marketplace out of Ireland Raises $5.6 Million to Connect Employers with Jobseekers: Jobbio, a careers marketplace that connects employers with jobseekers, has raised €5 million ($5.6 million) in a series A round
Portfolium a site where college students create profiles has raised $6.6 million to help students get jobs.
Stella, a New York-based personal job recruitment platform, has raised just over $10 million in new VC and debt funding, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include CRV. www.stella.ai
MISC
Jobcase is now claiming 50 million members nationwide and brings in about 1 million new visitors a month. They are being billed as the 'linked for those not on linked".
I am pleased to welcome Jobs2Careers to the RecTech Media stable of clients. The popular job search engine will be sponsoring our recruiter related brands and emails including RecruitingHeadlines.com.
I'll also be blogging for them twice per week about HR & Recruiting related topics. You can read my first post here. It's entitled Content Marketing for Employers.
Cheers.
~CR
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The following is an excerpt from my latest ebook entitled the Essential Marketing Guide for HR Tech Vendors and Startups.
Recruiters and HR people are arguably the busiest people at any company today. They are managing multiple reqs or putting out fire after fire while trying to please management.
I think the four messages that resonate most with them in general are;
Save me time
Save me money
Make my job easier
Get me quality applicants
Be sure your messaging has elements of some or all of these. Integration with other technologies like an applicant tracking systems is also a key feature request from HR. If your product doesn’t play nice, that’s a hurdle you need to be aware of. Expect questions about possible integrations when demo’ing your tool.
NOTE: Josh Bersin, the HR Tech analyst calls it “integrated talent management”.
When it comes to HR software there is a big push from employers to have integrated suites that do everything. We are seeing a big push from vendors who offer well rounded set of features.
Take Snagajob for instance, the job board company just bought PeopleMatter a HR system for managing hourly workers. For years, CareerBuilder was just a job board. But even they have broadened their offerings. Now they serve employers needs from soup to nuts.
Because of this if your product does not integrate well into these new and powerful HR systems your product may struggle to gain acceptance until you do.
Tout your numbers if you have them. I was speaking to an exec at an entry level job site recently who asked what he should lead with as far as wording on his marketing and landing pages. “What are your numbers?”, I asked. “2.5 million profiles of college students and recent grads”, he replied. “Lead with that”, I said. Those are the kinds of things recruiters like to hear.
