Startup Jobiak’s sole mission in life is to make sure your jobs show-up on Google for Jobs. I covered it last month and I also interviewed them on The Chad & Cheese Podcast. “With Google for Jobs, Google has completely…
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Straight Outta Beta: Hire by Google Unleashes Candidate Discovery
Back in March, I reported the news that Hire by Google, an ATS offering from the search giant, was beta testing a candidate discovery tool for a select number of customers. The feature serves as an automated sourcing tool for employers…
Promote Your Jobs Via Webinar? This Startup Thinks You Will
Chances are, you’ve attended a webinar. It was likely put on by a company, delivering you a healthy dose of content marketing, wrapped up in a sales pitch. But have you ever considered pitching your job openings to candidates in…
Hiretual Adds Market Insights and Candidate Personas to Its Candidate Sourcing Tool
Google might disagree, but LinkedIn is the gold standard when it comes to people data. There are a lot of sourcing tools that beat their chest about the tens of millions of resumes they have, but at almost 600 million…
Suffering a Shortage of Applicants? A Checklist Covering the Top 10 Reasons Why
When a corporate recruiting function conducts an audit, I find that the resulting data usually reveals that the recruiting problems that dramatically restrict applications routinely occur during the same steps of the “recruiting funnel.” So, if you work at a…
Jobiak Is Here to Get Your Postings on Google for Jobs
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you know Google for Jobs is a big deal. By sending job seekers directly to openings from Google’s search results instead of, say, the homepage of a job board,…
No-Cost People Search Engine Findera Launches
Meet Findera, a people search engine that officially launched in October 2018, offering a free recruiting solution for employers to find talent on a global level. In addition to searching through profiles, employers can post jobs for free as well….
Uncommon Adds Automated Sourcing to Its Programmatic Job Advertising Solution
Active candidates just aren’t enough these days. Not with the unemployment rate under 4 percent anyway. For Palo Alto-based Uncommon, this meant the startup’s programmatic job advertising software needed more than just a way to drive active candidates to recruiters through…
LinkedIn’s Dan Shapero on How ‘More Than Ever, Companies Win or Lose on Their People’
Dan Shapero is vice president, talent solutions, careers, & learning, at LinkedIn. He’s responsible for LinkedIn’s $3 billion+ talent solutions business, as well as products for job seekers, learners, and employers. I caught up with him at LinkedIn’s recent Talent Connect conference…
The Days and Times With the Highest Conversion Rates for Job Applicants
In talent acquisition, we always want to better understand our end customer — the job seeker. With that in mind, I wanted to share some data that dives into when applicants are most likely to apply. We are talking about…
LinkedIn Builds ATS and Launches New Diversity Insights
LinkedIn knows how to put on a show, and this year it didn’t disappoint at its annual Talent Connect Conference in Anaheim, California. The headliner this morning was CEO Jeff Weiner and the announcement from Sarah Beth Anders that LinkedIn is…
LinkedIn Acquires Employee Engagement Platform Glint
LinkedIn has signed an agreement to acquire Glint, an employee-engagement platform that aims to deliver insights to improve employee satisfaction, happiness, and performance. Terms were undisclosed, but CNBC is reporting that the deal was in the $400 million ballpark. Assuming…
Just In Time to Be Commoditized, Automated Scheduling Solution GoodTime Raises $5 Million
Automated scheduling is hot. Google is in. Lever is in. TextRecruit is in. And San Francisco-based GoodTime, launched in 2016 and raising $2 million last year and $5 million more this year, is really, really in. The new round of funding was led…
TextRecruit Adds Automated Scheduling to Candidate Messaging Solution
Since being acquired by iCIMS earlier this year, TextRecruit, the company that helps employers engage with candidates via text messaging, is showing no signs of slowing down. Readers may remember TextRecruit launching a sourcing tool alongside Nexxt back in August,…
The Two SEO Queries That Recruiters Should Care About
Over 30 percent of Google searches are related to job searches. But, the majority of these search results are completely dominated by Indeed, LinkedIn, Monster, and the many other job boards out there. That said, there are two queries that the majority…
Hire by Google is Coming to Android Mobile Devices
Sorry iPhone users, if you’re a customer of Hire, Google’s applicant tracking solution, you’ll have to wait to enjoy hiring on-the-go the way Android users soon will. According to multiple Android alert blogs, a native app has been seen in…
ACLU Raises Gender Bias Charge Against Facebook’s Recruiting Tools to EEOC
The recruiting world should monitor the ACLU’s recent charges against Facebook alleging that its employment advertising discriminates against women and non-binary persons by allowing employers to target employment advertising to gender groups. The ACLU filed these charges with the U.S….
LinkedIn Groups’ Long-overdue Update
LinkedIn Groups have always felt like an afterthought. They’re sort of like the guest room that gets a lot of initial attention, but sits there collecting dust because so few people come to visit. In my own experience, I’ve found…
CareerBuilder Revamps Mobile App, Bets Big on Augmented Reality
Sometimes the market just isn’t ready for certain technologies. In other cases, consumers never really wanted it in the first place. For example, how many pairs of Google Glass do you see these days? CareerBuilder is hoping for the former…
Jobalign Launches Mobile Recruiter to Support On-the-Go Hiring Teams
While mobile messaging has achieved mass adoption in just about everyone’s private life, it’s only now starting to gain traction as a consumer tool, and more specifically a recruiting application. TextRecruit, probably the most well-known industry player (recently acquired by…