Twill Wants You to Refer Tech Talent (and get paid)

Twill CEO

RecTech Podcast

Twill, a next-generation talent platform that connects companies with vetted tech professionals through peer recommendations, has raised $1.4M in pre-seed funding  we’ll talk to their CEO Michelle Volberg about what’s next.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

Whats your background and tell us more about the origin story of Twill?

1. Tech hiring has taken a hit the past two years, do you see that as a hindrance or opportunity?

2. How does the platform work for both candidate and employer? (walk us thu the user experience)

3. Can you walk us through how you validate the expertise of the professionals in your network? What metrics or criteria do you use?

4. What industries or roles have you found this model works particularly well for?

5. When did you launch? Any success stories? Can you share some specific examples where your model has led to particularly successful placements that might have been missed through traditional recruiting channels? 

6. Looking ahead 5 years, how do you see the recruiting landscape evolving? What role do you envision Twill playing in that future?

7. Whats Twills biggest challenge right now?

8. Whats the plan now that you have funding?

HiringBranch CEO Talks Latest Funding Round

Stephane Rivard

RecTech Podcast

HiringBranch offers an AI voice and chat soft skills assessment platform.  Co-Founder and CEO Stephane Rivard confidently predicts AI will soon replace interviews and they just landed 5 million canadian dollars to prove it. This latest funding will help the company expand globally into Latin America, Asia, and the UK.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

1. Give us a quick history of HiringBranch? When did you start and why

2. What problem is HiringBranch solving for? How are you different from competitors?

3. Why do you believe interviews are going away? Why is this new hiring method better than traditional resumes and interviews?

4. There is a lot of conversation around AI and bias in the hiring process. How does HiringBranch debunk claims that AI is biased? Do you believe AI can actually improve the quality of a hire?

5. I hear you coined the term "Soft Skill AI." What is Soft Skills AI? Why is it important to measure soft skills in the hiring process?

6. I hear you just received recent funding. What is the future of HiringBranch?

Jon Stross, Greenhouse Co-founder, Talks State of Job Hunting

Jon Stross, Greenhouse Software

The 2024 State of Job Hunting report, recently released by Greenhouse, a leading hiring platform, paints a challenging picture of the current job market. Despite nearly half of US workers actively seeking new opportunities, a significant portion experiences heightened anxiety due to a broken hiring system –we’ll talk about it next with co-founder Jon Stross

“The data highlights a troubling reality— the job market has become more soul-crushing than ever. Candidates are trapped in a cycle of despair and have no idea what’s going on. Hiring feels like a black box. It’s become a battlefield that job seekers have to cross – employers ghosting candidates, fake, spam, and scam jobs— and AI is only exacerbating it all,” says Jon Stross, President and Co-founder of Greenhouse.