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Text Recruiting is on the Rise

In case you haven’t noticed text recruiting is on the rise. A new report published by Aptitude Research on behalf of Emissary.ai the text recruiting platform reveals that 40% of employers plan to increase their investment in this fast growing recruiting channel.

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In the below video I asked its author Madeline Laurano to give us a deeper dive on this growing trend.

Text-based recruitment humanizes and personalizes the candidate experience while lifting the administrative burden placed on recruiting teams. Unlike other areas of talent acquisition, text-based recruitment provides an immediate ROI – impacting every aspect of the candidate journey. It offers a significant, measurable impact in a short period of time.

~Madeline Laurano



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HR Tech Funding - $100 Million Dollar Darlings of VC

Meet the HR tech startups that have each raised $100 million or more in a sing round of venture capital funding.



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Recruitment Marketing Benchmarks with Appcast's CEO

Chris Forman is the CEO of Appcast, the programmatic job advertising company based in New Hampshire. They just released their annual report on recruitment marketing data points and we’ll dive into those numbers on today's episode.



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RecTech Media Launches Industry Newswire PR Service

New PR service for recruitment technology vendors.



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2020 HR Technology Funding Recap

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2020 HR Technology Funding Recap

Chris Russell

December 29, 2020

Despite a global pandemic it was a banner year for funding in 2020 when it came to HR technology. The big winner was Eightfold’s $125 million round for its AI based recruiting software. We are living through the golden age of HR tech and the money is still flowing like a torrent.



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RecTech Virtual Meetup Replay

On this episode you will hear from Linkup CEO Toby Dayton as he details the upsurge in job postings they are seeing on the job aggregator linkup...we’ll also discuss in Indeed has hit their peak, some startup funding news and a wide ranging discussion about remote work.



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Layoff Trackers are the new Normal

As the pandemic continues to gut the labor market a new crop of web sites are rising to track the bad news but help those affected in the process. I’m not sure when it started but companies who are laying off are starting to share who was let go through online spreadsheets.



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"Essential" Job Sites for the Covid-19 Era

Most hiring is on hold save for a new classification of work deemed “essential” by state governments. These include healthcare workers of all kinds along with delivery drivers, grocery workers and most local and state government personnel.



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Josh Gampel, CEO of Recruitics on the Acquisition of KRT

At the recent Social Recruiting Strategies Conference in Philly I caught up with Josh Gampel to get his take on the recent acquisitions happening in the programmatic job space along with Recruitics move to acquire KRT Marketing.



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RecTech Insider for December

Here's your RecTech roundup, news from the past month in recruiting and HR technology circles. Lots of companies, old and new are making headlines.



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