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.

iCIMS acquired Opening.io, an Irish data science company that applies AI to talent acquisition, and launched a new product based on its technology, iCIMS Talent Logic. Talent Logic pairs Opening.io’s solution with iCIMS extensive set of hiring data points, which the company says numbers in the billions. The product’s meant...
Talent acquisition platform Lever introduced a number of upgrades as a part of its spring release, which the company hopes will help customers scale their recruiting operations more efficiently. The company said it adapted its Talent Acquisition Suite to begin aligning with new ways of working as employers examine how...
CareerArc has integrated an AI and video tool into its placement platform to help candidates evaluate their soft skills and character traits through brief, self-guided interviews. Candidates can use the insights generated through the video assessment to refine the presentation of their personal brand during interviews, on their resumes and...
Greenhouse Software will lay off about 120 employees, or 28 percent of its workforce, as its business feels the impact of the coronavirus. Since the end of March, several recruiting technology companies have reduced their headcount as the economy staggers under the weight of massive layoffs and plunging revenue. About 22...
Beamery became the latest recruiting platform to introduce digital events product as the COVID-19 pandemic forces employers to seek new ways to meet candidates. Shelter-in-place requirements have disrupted the interview process as well as the use of campus career fairs and other on-site events. Employers and recruiters say videoconferencing tools...
Alexander Mann Solutions announced Hourly, a platform that helps employers identify and hire hourly workers. The product, the first which the company has built for itself, offers a mobile-based, conversational-style interface. The company said the product’s genesis began with its acquisition of Karen HR in 2019. Karen HR developed a “cognitive recruiting assistant”...
Modern Hire is offering six customizable hiring workflows that together cover over 50 jobs in industries including hospitality, delivery, logistics, retail and healthcare. The “Hiring Blueprints” are meant to provide talent acquisition teams with repeatable methods of evaluating and hiring candidates at scale once shelter-in-place orders ease and businesses begin to ramp...
Shiftgig updated its digital staffing platform, Deploy, to help staffing agencies undertake “more traditional” temp-to-perm or long-term assignments. The expansion broadens the type of agency that can use Deploy, which creates on-demand marketplaces for workers and enables them to choose long-term or short-term assignments. The company contends that helps agencies fill positions...
Dice added an anonymous email feature that allows candidates and employers to keep their identity private until they’re comfortable enough to, well, open their kimono. Dice Private Email automatically hides each candidate’s personal email address when they make their profile visible. In addition, job seekers can unsubscribe from messages they deem irrelevant,...
Providers of virtual recruiting technology have seen a dramatic increase in customer interest over the last few weeks as employers shift their talent acquisition efforts online. One of them, San Francisco-based Turazo, said it’s receiving more inquiries and conversations have begun moving more quickly since shelter-in-place directives began appearing in March. Turazo’s campus-recruiting platform is receiving...