New Podcast! Beyond's Joe Stubblebine Discusses Recruiting by Text

Joe Stubblebine is the VP of talent solutions and employer sales at Beyond.com---he’s a veteran of the online recruitment industry ...for those of you who don't know Joe he was the founder of Jobcircle.com a regional job board that served the Mid-atlantic states back in the 2000s.

He eventually sold that company to Beyond a few years ago and has remained with them ever since. View his profile on Beyond.

Joe Tubblebine Discusses Text2Hire

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In this episode we will discuss their new Text2Hire messaging service for employers (get 10% OFF by clicking here). We'll also chat about the industry as we head into 2017. I think you'll find his stats around texting and engagement will be eye opening and could prove to be the next wave of reaching candidates.

How To Recruit on Facebook

Third party recruiter Esra Oziskender who runs HR Link Consulting in NYC talks about how she sources and places candidates on the Facebook social network.

Listen to this 20 minute conversation where sho offers her tips and tricks for recruiting on Facebook.

How I Recruit on Facebook

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Our podcast is sponsored by Beyond.com - Click for 10% a Text2Hire Campaign

December Rec Tech Insider

November was another busy month in the HRtech/RecTech space. Here is the roundup for what happened. Lots of new fundings, product launches and other news. See ya' next year!

NEW FUNDING

• WorkRamp an employee training platform has raised a $1.8M seed round from Susa, Haystack, others; software for customizable training at scale for any industry and position; offers performance data analytics and insights [ Link ]
• Ripple Recruiting Raises $700,000 In Funding Round Led By MongoDB And Business Insider Founder Kevin Ryan: Ripple Recruiting, a hiring platform connecting top employers with top students, has closed $700,000 in seed funding. The round will allow Ripple to continue its Ivy League expansion and grow its team as it seeks to displace much larger players in the college recruiting market. "Ripple is having exceptional success fixing a major pain-point for both companies and students," said Kevin Ryan, who has founded multiple companies including MongoDB, Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, Nomad Health, and Zola. [ Read more here. ]
• Tenstreet, the leading web-based provider of driver recruiting software and workflow solutions for the trucking and transportation industry, announced today that it has received a significant investment from Spectrum Equity, a leading growth equity firm. The investment will accelerate development of Tenstreet's product portfolio and further position the company to execute on its growth strategy. [ Link ]
• JobToday a europoean recruitment startup that matches candidates within 24 hours has raised $20 million plans to enter US market. [ Link ]
• Glint is a real-time employee engagement platform that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help companies get the most out of their employees, and now it has added another $10 million to its Series C round. The funding came from from Bessemer Venture Partners. [ Link ]
• Wurk gets $1 million to help cannabis companies manage their people with its HR software. [ Link ]
• Axonify Raises $27M to Gamify Employee Training Without Wasting Your Time: Think back to the last time you had to do a corporate training. More likely than not it was a frustrating experience that you simply tried to survive rather than learn from. (If you feel otherwise, I’m genuinely worried about you). With $27 million in fresh funding led by JMI Equity and BDC Capital, Axonify, wants to hack your brain to help everyone get away with doing less while taking away more. How little you ask? Three minutes of optional training per day, packaged up to resemble a game. [ Read more here ]

PRODUCT  LAUNCHES

• SAP announced the launch and general availability of career site builder, which brings simple, consumer-style website design, creation and management to human resource (HR) and recruiting professionals. As part of the SAP® SuccessFactors® Recruiting solution, career site builder enables the rapid deployment and easy maintenance of responsive career sites. [ Read More ]
• Google creating jobs api to help with searching for jobs. Careerbuilder, Dice are among the beta testers. This is a very 'under the hood" kind of technology that goes to the hear of a keyword search. Other job boards should take note. [ Read more ]
• Facebook about to launch jobs tab for business pages...apply by Facebook! We may soon be hearing recruiters say "apply on our Facebook page". [ Read more ]
• Placement Feed Offers New Innovative Candidate Matching Services for Staffing Firms. [ Read PR ]
• LinkedIn Launches Salary to Chart product: LinkedIn Salary, a new portal and tracker to collect and analyze salaries globally, will let users find how much a particular job earns (salary, bonus, and equity data), with the ability to drill down using parameters like years of experience, location, and education level. [ Read more here ]

MISC

• HiringSolved says they have added 82 million profiles and that we refreshed our entire database. Here’s a quick post with all of the details. [ Learn more ]
• Linkedin to offer sponsored InMails - it will be a paid feature that will let marketers query LinkedIn’s database of 476 million users and send relevant groups within it unsolicited messages in LinkedIn’s InMail messaging system. [ Learn more ]
• Triplebyte says its skills-based recruiting platform is working after screen 12,000 engineers. [ Link ]
• Randstad Locks Down the Monster Deal: Randstad Successfully Completes Tender Offer To Acquire Monster Worldwide: Randstad North America, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Randstad Holding nv (AMS: RAND), announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Merlin Global Acquisition, Inc., has successfully completed its tender offer to acquire any and all outstanding shares of common stock of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW) ("Monster"), at a price of $3.40 per share in cash, without interest thereon and less any applicable withholding taxes (the "Offer"). As a result of the completed Offer and pending completion of the merger, which is expected to occur on November 1, 2016, Monster's common stock is expected to cease trading prior to market open on the closing date and will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. [ Read more here ]
• DHI the owner of Dice.com says site is for Sale. [ Read about it ]

New Podcast: Ray Tenenbaum from GreatHires, Interviewing Management Tool

On the Rec Tech Podcast we highlight interesting new technology for recruiting. Recently we were joined by Ray Tenenbaum, Founder of GreatHires.

Founder of Great Hires

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Ray Tenenbaum is the founder of Great Hires, a recruiting technology startup offering a mobile-first Candidate Interviewing Experience platform for both candidates and hiring teams. Great Hires was named Top HR Product of 2016 by Human Resource Executive Magazine and ranked number 2 in Business Tools in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Brilliant Companies of 2016.

SHOW TOPICS

• One of the more practical new tools i have see in hr tech lately...what was the impetus for creating the app ...tell us more about its origins?
• How does it work for employers?
• Why is making the interview experience so important?
• Describe the user experience for a candidate?
• What have you learned so far about how companies approach interviewing...any takeaways?
• Tell us about the company itself how many employees are you bootstrapped or funded...
• How much does it cost for employers to use it?
• We are living in a time where there has never been more HR technology…..What advice do you have for companies who are overwhelmed with all this new HR technology?

That will do it for this edition of the RecTech podcast. Thanks again to our sponsor and remember to check out Beyond.com/rectech for that special offer of 10% to their text to hire service...Follow Chris Russell on twitter @chrisrussell 

The Rec Tech Podcast is sponsored by the good folks at Beyond.com