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…
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iCIMS Secures New Round of Private Equity Funding
Popular applicant tracking system iCIMS added a new investor this week. Vista Equity Partners is giving an undisclosed amount of money to the company for an undisclosed piece of the company. It joins Susquehanna Growth Equity as the second firm. SGE invested in 2012…
Text Recruiting Stays Hot with Launch of Jobvite Text, Powered by Canvas
Sometimes a competitor being acquired is the best thing for a startup. Back in January, popular ATS platform iCIMS bought TextRecruit, a text messaging and live chat communications platform for employers that launched in 2014. “This couldn’t be a better fit,” said Erik…
Greenhouse Raises $50 Million, Touts Diversity Offering
Greenhouse, a popular applicant tracking solution, joined a growing number of its peers raising money lately. Hired, for example, just raised $30 million. Phenom People recently raised $22 million. I could go on, but the gist is recruitment remains hot…
Hire by Google Launches Candidate Discovery Feature to Search, Engage Old Resumes
It was just a question of time. When Google launched Hire last year, everyone knew it would eventually introduce its search technology into the product and make finding and reengaging resumes in your database more, well, Google-y. And that day…
Your ATS Will Never Help You Hire
Let’s start with the obvious: no one likes their ATS. Like airlines, wireless service, or cable companies, there are no good choices, only a least horrible choice. This necessary evil was once the best way to manage and track a…
Breezy HR Jumps Into Chatbot Recruiting Race with ‘Hello’
The bots are multiplying. Breezy, an applicant tracking solution from the folks who brought us Path.To, launches Hello today. Similar to other chatbot offerings like Mya, Olivia, Crowded, and GoBe, Hello aims to have a virtual conversation with a prospect…
Why Google Getting into Recruitment Is Great for the Industry
Much has been written about Google’s foray into recruitment recently, first with the launch of Google for Jobs, and most recently with the announcement of Google Hire. The reaction from recruiters has been cautiously optimistic thus far, but the reaction…
Google Hire Pricing Revealed
It’s been a busy week for Google Hire, the company’s foray into the applicant tracking market, which officially launched this week. The news was covered here, with John Zappe saying, “Google’s Hire goes well beyond what most of the basic tracking…
ATS Executives Sound Off on Google Hire
Aside from Indeed, most job boards seem to be pretty giddy about Google for Jobs and the free traffic they receive from the world’s most popular search engine. Snagajob has said it has seen a 17 percent increase, and even itty-bitty…
What Google’s Response to a 7-Year-Old Has to Teach Us
The story of how an intrepid 7-year-old from the agricultural city of Hereford in the UK boldly wrote Google for a job has been told around the world. In case you missed it, Chloe Bridgewater addressed a letter to “google…