A Few Things Overheard at the ERE Fall Conference in Chicago

A few things heard and overheard in the hallways, walkways, and byways of the fall ERE conference in Chicago, or floating around the Internet and social media last week:

Recroup has been used to make a hire for the first time, by the Royal Bank of Canada. Recroup (whose current offering is explained here) is aiming to move into the business of social-media aggregation (which includes some of the companies mentioned here). But, unlike some other social-media aggregators, Recroup would like to handle all jobs, not focus just on IT. It’d also like to partner with jobboards, placing an API on their sites.
Remember those “pay-per-applicant” ads I mentioned in the spring? The CEO, Chris Forman, of the company behind them, AppCast, says the company is “exploding” with growth.
How about Goood Job: remember them? (No, that’s not a misspelling; that’s how the company does it.) While some competitors in the referral-technology genre have gone bye-bye, this one has not. EMC (in India) and Fidelity (in London) are among the companies that have recently signed on with Goood Job.
You may know that Glassdoor hired Will Staney, previously at SAP/SuccessFactors, as a talent-acquisition leader. You may not know it’s bringing on Mariah Deleon as VP of people. Meanwhile, it’s readying a launch of a new feature on its website (more info coming on ERE.net), and in one of the talent-acquisition field’s worst-kept secrets, is working on an IPO.
One startup you may not know: Toronto-based Ideal Candidate, matching salespeople with employers. Job seekers and top performers already on the payroll take a 20-minute assessment to measure compatibility. It’s another company in that social-job-matching genre that Charles Handler, who’s moderating a session Thursday about employee assessments, recently wrote about.
Another startup I’ve heard about recently: Coffee. It’s an app (see FAQs) for entry-level job candidates, employees, and interns to meet hiring managers, company founders, and other job seekers and employees.