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 Rahier Rahman, the founder and CEO of Turn Technologies. Their platform provides capabilities in recruiting, screening, and onboarding hourly workers. We're going to get into what specifically Turn does, how...
Employ Inc. acquired Lever, a talent acquisition suite that offers ATS and CRM capabilities in one product. In a blog post, Employ Chief Marketing Officer Allie Kelly said the transaction makes Employ the largest modern provider of talent acquisition solutions. By adding Lever, she said, the company becomes home to 850...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Modern Hire launched two new features intended to improve both the client and candidate experience. The Candidate Feedback Report can be presented to candidates who complete a pre-hire assessment. It highlights the...
Connecting and engaging with passive talent is the top challenge for recruiting teams (cited by 42%), according to a survey by talent engagement solution Sense, along with the Talent Board. Thirty-six percent of the respondents said chatbots and conversational AI are the most successful method of contacting and communicating with candidates....
iCIMS said its Summer ’22 release offers capabilities to improve talent agility and optimize hiring and engagement.   "In an uncertain market, leaders are quickly reprioritizing investments to continue to drive business forward,” observed Mark Brandau, the company’s vice president, portfolio marketing.  Employers, he said, “need modern tools and technology,...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. EdCast announced an integration with Zoom, which will embed learning and training tools to help drive productivity and upskilling within Zoom Meetings. The EdCast app for Zoom will help bring contextual content...
The days of walking into a business, résumé in-hand, to apply for an open position are over. Companies everywhere funnel job seekers to online applications where algorithms sort through and surface the best candidates. At the same time, a lot’s been made of the potential for talent acquisition platforms to...
Transcript to Come We talk with Grant Messick, vice president of customer success at Akasa, a developer of technology solutions for healthcare operations. They recently published a survey that, in part, looked at how staffing challenges get in the way of the work at healthcare organizations. We’ll talk about that,...
Transcript to come Today, we visit with Gilles Bertaux, the CEO of Livestorm. It’s a browser-based video tool that helps manage – among other things – meetings, webinars and virtual events. We’re going to talk about video technology and where it’s going, redefining use cases to strengthen what users can...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report, I'm Mark Feffer. Mark: My guest today is Jim Buchanan, the CEO of Cadient. They're a recruiting software platform that offers solutions like high volume hiring and an ATS, and they spend a lot of time studying the behaviors...