Talent Acquisition

Despite the wave of new technology being put to use by recruiters, sourcers and applicant tracking systems, many contend that matching the right candidate to the right role still boils down to relationship-building and telephone time. Here we explore the tools involved and how to strike the right balance between machine time and personal touch.

Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Ryan Agresta, the CEO of Candidate.co. His platform makes it easier for employers to find talent and build more inclusive teams. Its model adds a human touch to talent acquisition by...
Talent intelligence platform retrain.ai closed a fresh $14 million financing round led by AI-focused investment firm Radical Ventures. The infusion brings the company’s total funding to $34 million.  “Radical’s investment will help accelerate immediate value, with proceeds fueling retrain.ai’s growth into international markets where we will continue to pursue our...
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Beamery closed a $50 million Series D funding round, taking the company to a valuation of over $1 billion and representing a 25% valuation uplift over its previous round. The company's talent platform is designed to provide employers with the intelligence necessary to make more effective decisions about their workforce,...
High volume ATS provider Fountain released new recruiter tools meant to help support scheduling and interviewing of hourly workers. The update includes the ability for candidates to book time on recruiters’ calendars and to help with arranging both in-person and online interviews. The result, Fountain hopes, will be less...
Beamery announced additions to its product suite that are meant to help companies personalize the experience candidates encounter during the hiring process. The features include a new candidate portal as well as a preference center, enhanced campaign editor and AI-powered browser extension. “As we grapple with an increasingly uncertain global...
A little over half (53%) of IT professionals are extremely or somewhat likely to look for a new job in the next year as turnover and recruitment emerge as pressing challenges to the IT industry. This comes from a new study by learning experiences provider Skillsoft, which surveyed 7,952 IT decision-makers...
Talroo launched its Publisher Optimization Platform, a new offering meant to give community news sites, career sites, blogs and job sites the ability to integrate job search services into their site experiences, articles, content, job listings and job alerts.  The company said POP will help its customers “reach a higher...
Ceridian launched its Ideal Talent Marketplace during Ceridian INSIGHTS, the company’s global customer conference. The Talent Marketplace is designed to deliver speed and flexibility in staffing both businesses and workers. The product aims to help Ceridian customers as they navigate a world of staffing shortages, thin agility and rapidly changing...
Hiring software company Greenhouse released new capabilities that give recruiters and hiring teams a structured way to set, track and measure their work against hiring goals. Greenhouse Goals helps talent acquisition teams set goals at an individual or company-wide level, offering greater transparency into their performance and visibility into...