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.

Eightfold.ai and Udemy are collaborating to offer courses and job opportunities to users of the Talent Exchange platform. Launched in April, Talent Exchange uses Eightfold’s matching algorithms to connect users, specifically workers displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic, with companies that are hiring to fill open roles. Eightfold hopes the courses...
Symphony Talent launched SmashFlyX, which it describes as a “reimagined” talent marketing platform. The product makes available candidate relationship management, career site, talent mobility and programmatic advertising solutions through a single interface. The product is one result of Symphony’s acquisition of SmashFly Technologies in November. The combination joined Symphony’s employer-branding...
Sponsored John Deal, Phenom’s director of product management, discusses user experience in the age of COVID-19, how the company works experience into its development process, and why employers must take a holistic view of the candidate’s journey. Phenom has put a lot of energy into the whole idea of experience. How...
iHire unveiled a service to help companies assist their laid-off employees to find new jobs, a particularly timely feature as the number of unemployed workers in the U.S. climbs. The company’s Virtual Outplacement Services combines personalized job-seeker support with its career-management platform. iHire positions is outplacement services as being affordable...
Recruiting platform GR8 People has extended its offer for 60 days of free access to its virtual event solution for new users. The company had begun offering free access to the solution soon after the pandemic appeared in the U.S. CEO Diane Smith said the company decided to extend the...
Joonko, which offers automation to assist with diversity recruiting, launched Remote-Ready, a tool that helps employers realize as much benefit as possible from D&I efforts as they move toward remote work. Remote-Ready analyzes a company’s future workforce to create recommendations on which departments and roles would benefit the most from...
JazzHR, which provides talent acquisition technology for small and medium-sized businesses, released a white-label platform that allows partners to incorporate its ATS into their own fully branded solutions. CEO Pete Lamson said the platform will help JazzHR’s customers and partners “strengthen client and candidate relationships, while also creating a new...
Staffing software platform CEIPAL launched a new sourcing tool designed to improve its customers access to passive candidates. Called AI-Driven Passive Candidate Sourcing, the feature allows recruiters to conduct searches of both active and passive candidates from within the CEIPAL platform. The tool’s algorithms crawl public sites such as Google...
No one vendor leads Europe’s recruiting software market but a number of new companies, and increasing interest from U.S. solutions providers, makes the landscape challenging for purchasing decision-makers. “Buyers in the European talent acquisition market are faced with more choice than ever before,” said UK-based Fosway Group in releasing its...
LayOffers, a new online service that connects job seekers with recruiters, will now provide users with contact information for some 370,000 recruiters. The information comes from ZoomInfo. LayOffers describes itself as “a supportive community” that allows laid off workers to share information, access job-search data and track layoffs. In April,...