In this special episode of RecTech, Audra Knight and I re-enact a great piece of writing published in the New Yorker. If you work from home you'll love it.
Ode to those who work from home
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Dean Da Costa Discusses New LinkedIn Chrome Extension Rules and Other Sourcing Goodies
Today’s guest is ...Dean Da Costa...Dean is a Strategic Sourcing and Research Technologist at a Fortune 100 company in the Seattle area. A decorated veteran and recognized sourcing expert with more than 20 years of experience, he currently writes The Search Authority, one of the most influential blogs in the business.
A frequent speaker on the recruiting conference circuit, His insight and knowledge (particularly of technology) has made Dean one of the top sourcers and full cycle recruiters in the business today.
TOPICS
Let’s start with the recent Linked User Agreement changes which is causing a lot of uproar among your fellow recruiters and the various Chrome Extensions they use...can you explain what it says and what that means for recruiters/vendors?
SEE ALSO: https://www.eremedia.com/sourcecon/stop-the-madness/
Does it affect every extension on the market that uses LI in some way?
You say InMails are a waste of time...why? What’s your open rate?
What tools are part of your everyday souring toolbox…..Elucify.com, Hunter, Hiretual
What ATS do you currently use? Taleo, Luxo, Smashfly
How much do you spend on these tools each month?
What has been your biggest win so far this year from a sourcing standpoint? (tell a candidate hiring story)
When it comes to vendors pitching you...what are they doing wrong? How should they approach people like you?
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Audra Knight Discusses Recruitment Marketing
Welcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology show...where we talk about interesting new technologies related to recruiting and HR as well as asking recruiters how they use it to recruit and manage their talent. Today’s show is a recruiter edition. My name is Chris Russell, they call me the mad scientist of online recruiting, and I spend my day helping HR tech vendors on marketing, strategy and product development at RecTechMedia.com. I love helping connect candidates with employers through technology and that’s what this show is all about.
This episode of RecTech is sponsored by Job Fairing, if your company is hosting a hiring event or job fair post it for free at jobfairing.com. Job Fairing helps employers and event organizers to promote their career event to local candidates...learn more at jobfairing.com.
Audra Knight is the Manager of Recruitment Operations at the global cybersecurity company Tenable. In this role, her team creates and supports Tenable’s talent acquisition strategy including process improvement and employment brand management. She is passionate about using marketing best practices and technology to attract talent that will excel at Tenable. Her side gigs include The #SocialRecruiting Show, industry blogging, team #HROS and being in a rock band.
TOPICS DISCUSSED
1 Day to day at Tenable.
2. How many employees? How may applications do you receive monthly?
3. Main hiring needs?
4. What has been your recruiting team’s biggest win so far this year?
5. Where do you see recruitment marketing going? Content? What kinds...
6. Types of recruiting technology tools you use...
7. The Clinch apply process...is it working? View Tenable jobs
8. You got your job through twitter...tell us how?
9. Why do recruiters need to be better at personal marketing?
10. How do you suggest they start?
11. When it comes to vendors pitching you...what are they doing wrong? How should they approach people like you?
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Nurturing Candidates through Content
ON THIS EPISODE OF REC TECH...
My guest today is Adam Gordon, CEO and co-founder of Candidate.ID, the world's first talent pipeline platform. Previously he started the research and sourcing company Social Media Search, through a joint-venture with Norman Broadbent plc before undertaking a management buy-out in December 2016 and merging with Candidate.ID.
Adam has also worked in the Human Resource Services practice at PwC and in recruitment marketing with HAVAS. He works in London and in Glasgow, Scotland, where the Candidate.ID team is based.
I got the chance to meet Adam at last month’s Transatlantic event hosted by Talent Tech Labs in New York and invited him on the show to talk about their unique take on pipelining candidates with content.
TOPICS DISCUSSED
1. Tell the listeners what Candidate ID is….what is a talent pipeline platform?
2. How has recruitment marketing changed?
3. The origins of the nurturing the candidate with specific content?
4. (4) stages of candidate decisions...explain...what content goes with what stage?
4a. How do you create that content? Any tips?
5. Who are some of your customers and what have they learned so far using your platform?
6. When did the company start and how big is your team?
7. Cost to use the platform?
8. What have you learned so far about how to market your product to employers...any tips you can share with other vendors in our space?
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Rec Tech Insider for March 2017
Here's what's happened in the past 30 days.
ACQUIRED
- SmartRecruiters acquires Jobspotting from Germany. Read the press release.
- WayUp, an NYC based college recruiting startup has acquired Looksharp, a competitor and team of five. Read the story.
NEW LAUNCHES
- Climber.com launches personal career site service. The company’s California based career team works with clients to build the career site, so there is absolutely no programming experience needed. Detail here.
- ScoutSavvy, a local startup that is trying to help more people of diverse backgrounds find employment with tech companies in the region. Read story.
- Apply for jobs in 30 seconds without a CV? This Swedish startup helps you nail your dream job quicker. Read story.
- Noirefy, a Job Referral Platform, Aims to Fight Bias in Recruiting and Hiring. Link
MISC
- Interview with Indeed's head of tech. By any estimates, we’re looking at about a million jobs in tech — engineering, software development, design, management — that will added in the next two to five years. Read story.
- Uber employees are chatting with each other about Uber’s leadership on anonymous workplace app Blind. Read story.
- Ladders, Inc. Announces Integration with Greenhouse Software. Integration features will allow recruiters to find and source the best candidates. Press release.
FUNDING
- WorkHound, a software platform developed to help carriers reduce driver turnover, recently finished a $500,000 fundraising round to grow their business and help trucking companies around the country accelerate profitability by retaining their drivers. Press release.
- YouEarnedIt steps in. The Austin-based software as a service company encourages worker engagement through real-time digital point rewards for employee behavior that helps generate revenue or reach other workplace goals. Those digital points can then be cashed in for rewards. Now the company, founded in 2013, has closed a $6.5 million Series A funding round to ramp up product development, sales and marketing. Read story.
- WorkJam raises $12 million to communicate with hourly workers. Via Techcrunch.
- Talentoday a talent assessment and people analytics solution, has raised $3.49 million in Series A funding mainly from The Adecco Group, the world’s leading workforce solutions provider. Press release.
- Comparably has raised additional capital needed to support the growth of its job placement service. The company revealed that it has received $7.25 million from a slew of participants, including Greycroft Partners (which led the round), Comcast Ventures, and several others. With the latest infusion of money, Comparably said it plans to further develop tools to help monitor the job market while bringing more companies on board. Read story.
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What I learned at HIRE Conf
Last week in New York City at a rooftop lounge overlooking the Empire State building I had the opportunity to attend the newest entry to the recruiting and HR conference circuit. It was called HIRE Conf put on by Jeremy Roberts and his Hiring Solved compatriots. 200 or so attendees braved the cold rain of the city for the one day event.
I love one day events like this. They tend to be smaller, more intimate and better for networking. Plus it was great that they chose to come to New York where few conference organizers dare to try for fear of costs. It was nice not to have to fly in to attend for once.
The tracks presented were interesting and full of data and some very practical advice. Glen Cathey kicked it off talking about machine learning, A.I. at the intersection of recruiting. His slides had some great quotes about the future of recruiting and you can see some of them in the above slideshow of pics I took. I also enjoyed Todd Davis and his Facebook sourcing tips and tools show.
Takeaways
- Cathey thinks in the future recruiters will do more "discovery" of candidates as the technology gets better surfacing related candidates to the skill set you need to find them for.
- Future technology will help guide recruiters to candidates they want.
- VolkScience.com can help you build custom email message templates to candidates.(currently in beta)
- Future recruiters will need to know how to leverage much more technology to be sucessful.
- The #1 job skill in 2020 will be "empathy". Something machines don't have.
- Check out Stanley Bot for Facebook Messenger. A Facebook messenger bot that takes care of things like answering recruitment related inquiries, processing job applications, interviewing potential candidates to creating a shareable audio profile for candidates you’d want to review and share.
- Looking for a good Chrome extension to help you search Facebook profiles? Click here.
- Don't try and keyword search facebook profiles on your own, use the 3rd party tools like Net Bootcamp.
- Stat of the day: Men apply to jobs if they think they meet 60% of the requirements while women only apply to jobs where they meet ALL the requirements.
- Quote of the day: “One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
And though I didn't get to stay for the night life it was good to reconnect with the usual suspects.
Apres theatre from #HireConf ! pic.twitter.com/fOEpp0xXS0
— Jo Weech (@JoWeech) February 8, 2017
Looks like the west coast is next, Jeremy says they are headed to San Francisco in the fall.
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Rec Tech Media Launches HR Tech Job Board
Rec Tech Media is pleased to announce the launch of HR Tech Talent the first online job market dedicated to the HR technology industry. The site is intended to be a job posting resource for both vendors and HR departments who need to hire in this ever changing industry.
The site is located at http://www.hrtechtalent.com/
The site features free job listings as well as additional upgrades. XML scraping is available for a small yearly fee. Candidates can upload a resume or create a free public profile and tag themselves with skills & keywords. If you are in HR tech and looking for your next gig or just want to promote yourself, you now have a place to call home. See profiles.
All jobs will also be auto-distributed to the sites Facebook group, Twitter account and Linkedin page with the #HRtechJobs. Those links are below:
- https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/11021838
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/144560299381053/
- https://twitter.com/hrtechtalent
The site will also blog about industry hiring announcements. If your firm would like to contribute to its blog with people news or a post about working for your company, write it up and send it to us for some free exposure. At the very least you can create a free company profile with logo and link back to your site.
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Best Practices for Sales Recruiters (podcast)
One of the latest clients at Rec Tech Media is John Hoskins of Sales Genomix.
John has had a long career in the sales field... first with Xerox Learning Systems, where he rose from account manager to regional sales manager, general sales manager and ultimately Director of U.S. Sales Operations.
Since then he has held other high profile positions in sales leadership at various firms and today he is Co-Founder of SalesGenomix specializing in sales talent assessment. He’s recently written a white paper on attracting sales talent called 7 Habits of Highly Effective Sales Recruiters...and I thought it would make for some great conversation for the recruiters out there.
SHOW TOPICS
Introduce us to SalesGenomix what is and how did it start?
Common pitfalls that Sales Orgs make when it comes to recruiting?
Habit ABR: How important is engaging the frontline sales hiring mgr in the process...there are things he can do to help.
What methods did you always find to be the best source of sales candidates?
How often should you review your sales talent pipeline with your manager to measure progress?
Sales mgr should be prospecting for candidates every day...
Is asking for w2 still a best practice?
Any good stories about recruiting a sales person that stand out to you over the years?
Prediction for 2017 when it comes to sales recruiting...poaching...small pool
Thanks again to our sponsor and remember to check out Beyond.com/rectech for that special offer of 10% OFF their Text2Hire service.
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January Rec Tech Insider
The funding of new and established HR tech continues. Here's what's new inside the Rec Tech industry including a new job board for HR tech professionals.
ACQUIRED
- AuthenticJobs.com a popular niche job board has been acquired by BuySellAds a maker of ad technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read details.
NEW LAUNCHES
- CareerCloud launches audio jobcasts for employers. New service embeds short interviews with hiring managers into your job descriptions. Read about it.
- HR tech Talent is a job online job market for HR tech professionals and vendors. Free to post jobs or resumes. Go there.
NEW FUNDING
- Reflektive, the real-time performance feedback platform, today announced it has raised $25 million in Series B inside funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Reflektive will use the funds to expedite innovation in its consumer-style performance management and talent development suite designed for the modern workplace. Full press release.
- EmployeeChannel - Employees Can Be Reached Anytime, Anywhere via Mobile as a new employer feedback tool Raises $5M. Press release.
- Shiftgig raises 20 million. Shiftgig, a marketplace that connects U.S. employers with workers seeking short-term positions, has raised $20 million in a Series C funding round from DRW Venture Capital, FJ Labs, GGV Capital, and KDWC Ventures. Founded in 2012, Shiftgig is a mobile-first platform that harnesses the burgeoning “gig economy” by letting workers choose the shifts and days they want to work — and the employer(s) they want to work for. It’s not aimed at those seeking a career position, obviously, but those seeking flexible working arrangements will find it useful. Via VentureBeat.
- Staffjoy Raises $1.2M, Allows Employee Schedules to be Sent via Text. Staffjoy launched in 2015 with the aim of giving small businesses the technology to improve scheduling of hourly workers. Today, the company announced the next phase of its offering and shared that it has raised a $1.2 million seed round led by Caffeinated Capital. Additional participants in the latest funding round include Brainchild Holdings and Haystack Fund. Read more here.
- Namely, a Zenefits rival, raises Another $50M. HR Software Startup Namely Raises $50 Million: Namely, which aims to make human resources software more user-friendly, today announced funding of $50 million. The New York-based startup targets mid-sized companies, which typically have 100 to 1,000 employees. “A few years ago, I noticed that all mid-sized companies had one thing in common,” founder and CEO Matt Straz told VentureBeat in an interview. “They seem to really struggle with getting the data that they need to run their business.” Read more here.
- Never Eat Alone: Working inside a massive company can mean being surrounded by thousands of people every day and yet feeling isolated. How do you start to connect with colleagues who might share your interests or make good mentors?This was the feeling Marie Schneegans had a couple of years ago while interning at global bank UBS. And it was what inspired her and cofounder Paul Dupuy to launch Never Eat Alone, a Paris-based startup that helps employees connect with each other over lunch. Via VentureBeat.
- Accompany, an app that wants to be your virtual chief of staff, has raised a boatload of new cash. The company, whose app publicly debuted in August, said on Monday that it had raised $20 million in new funding. The premise for Accompany is simple: the free app wants to automatically provide you with all the information you need to prepare for meetings. Accompany connects to your Google or Microsoft email account, your mobile calendar, and Facebook and Twitter accounts. From there, the company’s algorithms parse through your personal data—as well as biographies and information listed online—to create miniature dossiers on each of your contacts. Via Fortune.
- WeFind wants to help people companies recruit their users. For, say, a media company, it could be the people who’ve signed up on the site somewhere to read something. For a clothing company, it could be people who bought something. For a travel company, perhaps people who signed up for an alert when prices dip. For Uber — well, we’re talking of millions of users — aka potential candidates. From ERE.
- Ripple Recruiting, a startup founded by Yale students to help employers recruit, target and hire top students, has raised $700,000 in a funding round. Read about them.
- MyAlerts, a Product-tracking startup closed on $2 million in funding as it expands into a market close to CEO Doug Berg's entrepreneurial roots: recruiting. Will track corporate job pages and alert users of new jobs. Read about it.
MISC
- Indeed ends free resume searches for new accounts. Details.
- Russia blocks Linkedin. Nyet! from NY Times
- Rumors Are Floating About A Cornerstone OnDemand Sale: Speculation is swirling that Los Angeles-area Cornerstone OnDemand could be up for sale; the company’s stock is up about 5 percent today and rising after hours. Among the potential buyers, are ADP, Microsoft, and Oracle Read more here.
- Jazz, the leading recruiting solutions provider for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced its name change to JazzHR (www.jazzhr.com). The name change comes as part of a brand refresh initiative to better align the company's name with its growth strategy and product roadmap. More details.
- ADP Building Mobile App For Gig Workers. via WSJ - The payroll processor, which historically sells software and services to corporations, is testing a mobile app for individual temporary workers with unpredictable paychecks. The app, yet unnamed, is an attempt by ADP to reach new customers as shifts in technology, culture and demographics reshape the U.S. workforce.
- Microsoft is getting into HCM software via ZDnet
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What Employers Need to Know About Glassdoor
Christopher Kurtz is the Founder and Managing Director of PeerThru. PeerThru is an independent advisory founded by Christopher Kurtz that specializes in the four pillars of Employer Branding, Employee Assessments, and Leadership Development. He’s also a former employee of Glassdoor, the subject of today’s show.
1. Glassdoor appears to have become a right of passage for many job seekers while doing their research...your perspective...what kind of impact does Glassdoor have on today’s recruiting efforts.
2. What is a common misperception(s) about Glassdoor?
3. When you work with a client, where do you begin? Or, where would you recommend a TA / HR leader begin?
4. Who should own the Glassdoor relationship?
5. What are some of the pitfalls that you see with TA / HR managers with regard to Glassdoor?
7. What is one of the questions you are most commonly asked in regard to Glassdoor and how do you respond?
6. What tip would you provide recruiters or hiring managers with regard to Glassdoor?
8. What is one of your favorite stories that came as a result of a Glassdoor review?
9. Are proactive empl telling their employees to go leave reviews?
10. What is your parting thought?