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…
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How to Use a Conversational Interface
The conversational interface is coming, and it’s coming fast. Remember when in 2010, about three years after the iPhone was launched, people were telling you mobile was going to be it? And you didn’t believe them? And even though you…
TextRecruit, Nexxt Partner to Mashup Sourcing With Text Recruiting
Roughly a decade ago, Beyond (now Nexxt) added a little checkbox to its job-seeker registration form without knowing exactly how it would benefit the bottom line then, or in the future. The box asked for permission to text users about…
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…
When AI Will Replace Recruiters
Products infused with AI are being introduced into recruiting at an increasing pace. It seems like a question of when, not if, that AI will start replacing recruiters. While there’ll always be barber school, consider what levels AI has to…
The Future of Career Sites
The corporate career site has now been with us for 20 years. In that time technology has advanced at a blistering pace, mobile devices and social media have revolutionized the way we experience the Internet, and many employers have significantly…
What 1 Million Chatbot Conversations Tell Us
A lot of companies are contemplating adding a chatbot to their careers site in order to drive higher conversation rates into the applicant tracking system, and to boost the candidate experience. Chatbots have been very successful in the worlds of…
What Blockchains Can Do for Recruiting
Blockchain is a young technology, first conceptualised in 2008, and still mainly used to support cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. It has dubious antecedents; some of the motivation to create it was to make it difficult for law enforcement agencies…
The Limits of AI: What It Can and Cannot Do for Recruiting (Today)
AI is making big strides into recruiting technology, with startups and established vendors investing heavily in products for a range of uses including interview scheduling, sourcing, and assessments. While it’s certain that AI will disrupt recruiting by automating a lot…
Blockchain Social Networks Aren’t Ready to Transform Recruiting
Blockchain technology has gained a lot of traction in recent years. Now it’s being used to create social networks, including Sapien, Steemit, Sola, Dock, Indorse, and others. As with most new platforms, the hype is starting to get deafening, with…
HireVue, Indeed Unveil Pre-Hire Assessment Solutions Born Out of Acquisitions
One did it with a new acquisition. MindX, a game-based assessments company based in London, has been acquired by HireVue, best known as one of the oldest video interviewing solutions. The announcement was made last week. “The MindX game-based assessments are…
How CEOs and People Leaders Need to Embrace 3 Levels of the AI Stack
We’ve all heard doom and gloom reports of the coming AI revolution. Some forecasters predict a very grim future indeed: robots take over and humans find themselves unceremoniously kicked to the curb, suddenly unable to provide for themselves and their…
You’ve Seen the Epic Google Video. Is This the Future of Recruiting?
Many of you have seen the video (see below) of Google Assistant booking a haircut and reserving a table at a small, hip restaurant. It’s truly amazing of how far in technology we have come. For those of you in recruiting, I’m…
Candidate Experience vs. Candidate Quality? Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
When it comes to hiring in 2018, candidate experience is driving the bus. Failure to provide a good candidate experience can spell disaster for your hiring process and your brand. If you want proof, check out this cool little widget…
How to Effectively Engage Your Talent Communities
Building a talent community is a great step in pipelining talent. But, it’s just the first step. Once you get people to opt in, you have to engage them in a way that is segmented and regular. That’s not really…
A Recruitment Marketing Refresh Is Happening for a Giant of Corporate America
The 180-year-old Fortune 36 company Procter & Gamble, famous for brands like Crest, Charmin, Dawn, and Downy, is revamping its career site and its whole recruitment marketing and messaging to candidates. Scott Read, associate director, global talent supply at Procter…
What You Need to Know About Recruiting Automation
Recruiters don’t get enough credit for how dramatically the field of talent acquisition has changed in just the past decade. From job boards and social recruiting to employer branding and recruitment marketing, talent-acquisition professionals have navigated multiple waves of technology…
An Interview With Matt Alder, Who Has Watched the Online Revolution in Recruiting
“We used to do presentations saying that the Internet would change the way people looked for jobs,” says Matt Alder, “and everyone used to laugh at us.” Alder is a speaker, author, and talent acquisition consultant at the forefront of…
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…