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.

Employ Inc.’s Lever launched Candidate Texting, a new SMS tool designed to streamline candidate communication and improve engagement for talent acquisition teams. Candidate Texting is designed to help recruiting teams manage their candidate pipelines and overcome common communication challenges, such as improving response rates and overall time-to-hire. By using Candidate...
iCIMS showed off a new version of candidate relationship management software at this year’s INSPIRE conference. The company is trying to address situations where candidates expect an improved experience but recruitment teams don’t have ways to deliver them at scale. iCIMS said its new Candidate Experience Management (CXM) package will...
HireVue has acquired hiring platform Modern Hire, a move that it said will streamline employers’ use of both products for assessment, interviewing and end-to-end hiring automation. HireVue also said the transaction will “accelerate” its ability to “help all organizations identify employee and candidate potential beyond resumes.” “The acquisition of Modern...
Dice announced Dice AutoPen, a tool powered by ChatGPT that auto-generates cover letters for technology professionals to use when applying for jobs through the company's mobile app. The product creates cover letters that are personalized not only to the user, but also to the job and the company they're applying...
True, a platform of talent management products and services, will acquire Jopwell, which focuses its hiring tools on Black, Latinx and Native American students, as well as early-to-mid-career professionals. The companies said Jopwell complements the executive-level recruitment focus of True Search and its sister organization, AboveBoard. True says the acquisition...
SmartRecruiters unveiled “Hiring Without Boundaries,” a new message that's designed to help talent acquisition teams “break free from the limitations of legacy technology.” The company believes the concept “is the future of talent acquisition,” said CEO Michael DeSimone. "It's about helping companies meet people where they are and future-proofing their...
Beamery launched new chatbot and messaging tools in an effort to help employers personalize their candidate experience. The chatbot automates efforts like screening, interview scheduling and candidate engagement, helping global talent teams reduce time to hire “from weeks to days,” the company said, and deliver a personalized experience for any...
Hiring software company Greenhouse added a package of three features to its product suite with, the company said, the goal of helping organizations improve their hiring processes and results. Greenhouse said the new features will provide more transparency and allow for clearer hiring expectations across an organization. The features promise...
PandoLogic announced a new solution, pandoDIVERSITY, at this week’s UNLEASH Conference in Las Vegas. Designed to help customers attract and recruit underrepresented candidates, pandoDIVERSITY is built specifically to support a company’s diversity recruitment goals. This is no small thing. A study by Gartner revealed that a highly diverse workforce can...
HireVue launched HireVue Builder for Live, a solution designed to aid in enterprise hiring. The product combines the company's structured interview generator with its live interview platform as a way to bring “consistency and fairness” to every version of virtual interviews. The ability to assess role-specific competencies over points on...