The artist formerly known as iMomentous, provider of mobile-friendly career sites, has done quite an evolution the past couple of years. Moving past an awful name that no one can spell and a business model that had been commoditized by…
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Interview Platform Vervoe Raises $3.5 Million, Led By SEEK
I first wrote about Australian-based Vervoe about a year ago when the startup raised $1 million. The focus of the infusion of cash was to bring its act to the States for growth opportunities. At the time, I wasn’t very…
Textio, Uncommon.co Launch New Features Promising to Help Your Recruiting Suck Less
Posting jobs online has traditionally gone something like this: Need a sales rep? Google “sales representative job description,” copy and paste, make a few edits to customize the ad then publish. As a result, many companies are posting job descriptions…
3 Companies Helping Full-Time Employees Side Hustle on Company Time
Freelancing after being laid off? Sure. Moonlighting after a full day of work to make a few extra bucks? Sure. But how about freelancing during work hours? Or making extra cash on the back of a current employer? Sounds preposterous,…
Randrr Acquires Anonymous Career-Matching Solution Anthology
Career insights platform randrr announced the acquisition of career-matchmaking site Anthology last week. Anthology is dubbed by some as a mix between Tinder and LinkedIn, anonymously matching employers with already employed but on-the-hunt employees. After filling out a few job-related questions,…
Woah! Scout Just Raised How Much?
It’s not everyday a solutions provider in our space gets $100 million bucks in funding. But it just happened. Earlier this week, John Chuang, the CEO of TRI Ventures, wrote that check to Scout Exchange. The large investment is intended…
WorkHere Pivots From High-Tech to High-Touch in Turnaround Attempt
“Oh yeah, they’re definitely out of money.” There are fewer red flags quite as red as “no more money” if you’re a startup. So, when someone close to WorkHere, wishing to remain anonymous, told me the well had run dry,…
WrkRiot CEO Faces 20 Years in Prison for Fraud, Royally Screwing Over Employees
Life can be chaotic at a startup. You never know how long the company can milk its investment cash, and being acquired is a luxury most never experience. Employees working for Isaac Choi, CEO of WrkRiot, got more than any…
This Startup Wants to Keep You From Losing People on Your Career Site
KC Donovan, a long-timer and conference-frequenter in the talent-acquisition and HR tech field, is leaving Clinch— and starting a new recruiting-technology firm in a similar genre. He’ll keep ties with Clinch, with his new company becoming a customer of Clinch….
Glassdoor Competitor Kununu Adds 2-Way Dialogue Option Between Employers and Job Seekers
Online employee reviews are becoming big business, for good reason. An iCIMS survey last year said nearly 1 in 3 workers have declined a job offer primarily because the company had negative online employer reviews. It also revealed that 47 percent…
Charging Job Seekers to Access Current Employees? Another Company Tries It
Ugh. Last year I wrote about a company called Purple Squirrel, which had just received funding to the tune of $2.7 million. I found its business model, which generates revenue from job seekers hoping to connect with insiders at highly…
ZipRecruiter Acquires White Label Job Board Solution JobBoard.io
JobBoard.io is one of those under-the-radar success stories in our space. An overnight success, five years in the making. No big venture capital. No industry famous co-founders. No big city address. Just a small business, providing a valuable service at…
Soapbox Will Help You Bridge the Gap Between Professionally Produced and Raw Recruiting Videos
Every now and then I’m pleasantly surprised at how much a blog post resonates with readers. While I may personally think the topics I cover are interesting, the reality is very few blow up with likes, shares, and comments. Case…
This ‘Jobbing’ App Has Raised Over $1 Million Thanks To Its Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
I knew I’d eventually have to write something about cryptocurrencies and employment. I didn’t, however, think the first time would be covering a fundraising strategy for a startup out of Europe. I’m a bit out of my comfort zone, but…
The App That Calls Itself ‘The Real Time Glassdoor’ Is Coming to Your Desktop
While most employers are familiar with Glassdoor and Indeed as platforms for submitting anonymous employee reviews, far less are familiar with Blind, a native mobile app that touts itself as a “real-time Glassdoor” in ads. To get an idea of…
Jobs2Careers Shuts Down ipply, Its Small Business Hiring App
Job search engine Jobs2Careers launched ipply in August 2016. The app, native to both iOS and Android mobile devices, promised to help small businesses manage their applicant pool without the necessity of an applicant tracking system. The solution smartly integrated…
Recruiting Chatbot Market Remains Red Hot, Mya Raises $18 Million
The ongoing automation of recruitment marches on with Mya Systems, creator of Mya, securing $18 million in Series B funding last week. This follows a Series A round of $11.4 million in May 2017, and a seed round of $3…
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…
This Actually Is Sounding Like the Uber of Recruiting
Many in the talent-acquisition field have joked about the number of times some startup has claimed to be either the “Uber of recruiting” or the “eHarmony of recruiting.” Well, there’s one company you haven’t heard of until now, working quietly…
Crowded Promises to Bring Back the Dead with ‘Crowded Refresh’
It’s not quite October yet, but it’s never too early to bring back candidates from the dead. At least that’s what Crowded, a solution that looks to help employers use their existing talent pools that may have gone stale, is…