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.

Contingent workforce management platform PRO Unlimited announced a partnership with talent intelligence firm Eightfold AI. Under the agreement, PRO will embed Eightfold’s technology into its products, including its SaaS solutions to help customers optimize their contingent hiring practices. The companies said the combination of Eightfold’s talent intelligence capabilities with PRO’s...
Sponsored Data and technology are bedrocks of today’s talent acquisition world, but they also make the TA team’s job complex. Consider: When sourcing candidates, employers navigate through a range of data sets and systems. LinkedIn has its database, Indeed has another, Dice has another. Then, as they move into the...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Appcast launched a premium managed service for enterprise customers, to improve results of employers’ online job advertising programs. Appcast Premium combines programmatic technology with a team of recruitment advertising specialists to provide...
Listen to the podcast. Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I’m Mark Feffer. PeopleTech is a member of Evergreen Podcasts. Check out other shows at www.evergreenpodcasts.com.  In November, ADP Workforce Now and ZipRecruiter rolled out an integration. It melds the capabilities of both systems, as integrations do....
CareerBuilder updated its Talent Acquisition Suite with features intended to help candidates apply to jobs that better match their skills, and to help recruiters identify those job seekers more quickly.   In addition, beginning this month customers will have access to an analytics dashboard that combines all of CareerBuilder’s analytics...
iCIMS acquired New York-based Altru Labs, a platform that supports the distribution of employee-generated video. The company said the purchase will allow it to help employers “humanize” their brand. By incorporating Altru’s solutions into its Talent Cloud, iCIMS will be able to offer more dynamic options for communicating with talent...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. iCIMS acquired Altru Labs, a platform for employee-generated video. iCIMS says the deal bolsters its mission to deliver "people-driven transformation" by helping employers humanize their brand. It wasn’t even a month ago...
Sponsored It all started with a click. Think about all the things you can do with just one click. This is also true in the HR space. One-click apply tools have become increasingly common on recruiting platforms, as employers seek to provide candidates with a simple, consumer-like approach to submitting...
Sponsored Transcript Mark Feffer: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I’m Mark Feffer. This edition of PeopleTech is brought to you by JobSync, an integration platform that helps build hiring workflow solutions. They reduce friction during the hiring process, resulting in more applications in your ATS, a shorter...
Two ATS platforms have announced integrations with LinkedIn, allowing users to take advantage of an expanded set of capabilities without having to toggle between systems. Jobvite and ClearCompany will both use LinkedIn’s Recruiter System Connect to streamline the experience of users they share with the business networking site. First, Jobvite: It...