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.

Kelly Services acquired RPO provider RocketPower with the idea of expanding its recruitment process outsourcing offering around the world and creating growth opportunities in the high-technology industry. Under the acquisition agreement, RocketPower’s leadership team and staff will become part of KellyOCG, Kelly’s outsourcing and consulting business. However, RocketPower will continue...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Microsoft announced new features across Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, Surface Hub and Microsoft Viva, all designed to facilitate hybrid work and address employees’ new workplace expectations. Among the new capabilities: Teams Connect...
Transcript Mark F.: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. Mark F.: Last fall iCIMS unveiled its Internal Opportunity Marketplace. It connects employees to internal job opportunities and helps them build a long term career within their company. Essentially, iCIMS took its candidate experience and applied...
We talk with the co-founder of Yello about early-stage recruiting, DEI and technology’s role in it all, on this edition of PeopleTech. Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. Mark: My guest today is Dan Bartfield, the co-founder of Yello. Their talent acquisition platform helps...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. isolved People Cloud now features an Adaptive Employee Experience, an interface meant to help ensure an accessible employee experience through its connected HCM platform. The system includes accessible design (W3C WCAG 2.0...
Jobvite’s had a busy month. They’ve launched a new suite of products, a partnership with Charthop, and began to operate as a single business with sister companies JazzHR and NXTThing RPO. The new business’s name: Employ. It has more than 12,000 customers and 1,200 partners, hosts 1.2 million open...
Modern Hire launched its new Automated Interview Creator (AIC), a technology designed to provide talent acquisition teams with job-specific recommendations for interview questions. AIC is a logical next step from the company’s Automated Interview Scoring (AIS), an on-demand video interview feature that evaluates candidate responses. The Interview Creator leverages a...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Jobvite introduced its Evolve Talent Acquisition Suite to provide enterprise organizations with a unified set of the company’s offerings to simplify challenges across the recruiting lifecycle. The suite provides a single user...
You can love data, you can hate data, but you can’t argue that it’s not important to hiring. We’re going to talk about what that means on the ground – to recruiters and talent acquisition specialists – with today’s guest – Michael Fitzsimmons, the CEO of Crosschq. They provide...
ChartHop unnveiled a partnership with Jobvite, saying it it will enable HR, hiring and finance leaders to improve communication across teams, better utilize data and automate elements of their hiring workflows. “HR teams are searching for hiring and headcount planning solutions that simplify the talent acquisition process and streamline communication...