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Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast
by Chris Russell
Hosted by Chris Russell, online recruiting's mad scientist, the RecTech podcast covers all aspects of recruiting technology and recruitment marketing including interesting new tools & vendors. You'll also hear how recruiters leverage technology to find talent. A great listen for HR tech vendors, HR professionals and recruiters everywhere. CONTACT: [email protected]
Episodes
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Workday Finally Fixes its Recruiting Problem
BOSTON — Global employment platform G-P (Globalization Partners) announced strong third-quarter momentum on Thursday, projecting that it will surpass $450 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and achieve more than $100 million in core operating profits for the full year 2026. The...
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Ex-Monster.com Founder Launches Boomband Marketplace in New England Region
Former Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor is back with his new candidate driven marketplace BOOMBAND filled with deep profiles of candidates. https://www.boomband.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Metaview Lands $60 Million Series C
"In recruiting news: LinkedIn is restricting popular third-party sourcing tools like Pin, Gem, and Neuroscale, cutting off unapproved external access to its network. The core issue comes down to user consent and data scraping policies. By enforcing stricter controls over candidate profiles,...
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Recfest Soundbites
Today get updates from Dalia, SonicJobs, RecruitmentAds.com, Ribbon and Proven Base. Live from Recfest in Nashville, TN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Salary.com Wants to be a "Playa"
Dallas, Texas - PitchMe, the data enrichment and talent intelligence platform for recruitment and staffing agencies, today launched SONAR, a new search product designed to eliminate one of agency recruiting’s most stubborn workarounds: searching an ATS or CRM for known candidates, then opening a...
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RecFest LIVE: Mark Chaffey, CEO of Archer
Hackajob is now known as Archer. We go behind the name change with their CEO and whats the future of AI in recruiting. Recorded live from Recfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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RecFest LIVE: Findem's VP of Marketing
I chatted up Joseph Cole VP of Marketing for Findem about the launch of their new agentic studio for sourcing. Recorded live at Recfest in Nashville, TN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Harver Acquires Symphony Talent
VANCOUVER, Wash. — ZoomInfo , a leading intelligence platform, has announced the launch of Talent Autopilot, its most advanced recruitment technology to date. Designed to help talent acquisition teams bypass the limitations of traditional keyword searches, the new platform combines professional…
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How AI is Reshaping Career Sites
For years, we’ve built career sites for two audiences: human candidates and basic search engines. But right now, candidates aren’t just scrolling through job boards anymore—they’re asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI assistants to find their next role, evaluate company culture, and summarize...
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Jack & Jill Land $40 Million!
Boomband, a new talent intelligence platform founded by Monster.com creator Jeff Taylor, officially rolled out across all six New England states on Wednesday. Headquartered in Wakefield, Rhode Island, the startup is directly targeting the region’s dense concentration of tech, healthcare, finance,...
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Hackajob Gets a New Name, UKG Adds Voice
Linkup published their august 2026 jobs report; Key Takeaways Job openings stayed flat: Active job listings rose 0.1% in August 2026, to 4.96 million from 4.95 million in July. This suggests that underlying labor demand in the U.S. remained steady, alongside seasonal recruitment adjustments....
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SIA Report: The Digital Workforce in Recruitment 2026
Joining me today is John Nurthen, Executive Director of Global Research at Staffing Industry Analysts. John has spent more than three decades in the staffing industry—and he has just authored a global research report titled The Digital Workforce in Recruitment 2026. In it, John maps out how…
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Salesforce Gives Hibob $166M
In this weeks episode sponsored by Dalia.co * Hibob gets infusion of cash, Recruiter.com acquires Feenyx, Staffmark's report on AI in recruiting, new features from ICIMS and Vervoe. READ ON https://hrtechfeed.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Candidate Pushback & The New Era of Transparency
In this episode Chris Russell explores how job seekers are taking transparency into their own hands with new consumer tools like DidTheyGhostYou.com and JobScamScore.com. We break down how public ghosting leaderboards and AI scam-detection tools actually work, why they are becoming an…
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LinkedIn Changes Job Ad Pricing
First up: If you’ve logged into your recruitment dashboard recently and noticed your LinkedIn ad campaigns look a little different, you aren't imagining it. LinkedIn officially retired its daily and 30-day "slot" campaigns and migrated everyone over to a Pay-for-Performance—or P4P—model. Here’s...
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Upwork Earnings and Lattice Acquisition
Employers using Dalia can double their conversion of career site visitors into qualified applicants and hires. Double the hires from traffic you already have. That's how you start cutting your dependence on Indeed. Learn more at dalia.co. That's D-A-L-I-A dot C-O. SAN FRANCISCO — Lattice, the...
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Newly Hired Chief People Officer Stef Bloom
Stef Bloom is now the Chief People Officer at Spear Physical & Occupational Therapy, where she leads the company's people strategy across talent, culture, leadership development, and organizational growth. She brings nearly 20 years of experience building and scaling People functions at…
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Job Board News and a CEO Quits
This episode is sponsored by Dalia— Who's ready for a cold hard fact? Indeed's pricing model -- and all programmatic job advertising -- is based on driving volume. Not outcomes. Job boards are incentivized to send you more volume. Meanwhile, TA teams know their career site is already their best...
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ExecThread Turns 10 with CEO Joe Meyer
Today I’ll be talking with Joe Meyer the founder and CEO ExecThread which just turned 10 years old… If you dont know ExecThread they are a curated marketplace of crowdsourced career opportunities for the C-Suite & Board level. Joe shared on Linkedin recently that they just surpassed 900,000...
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Indeed Pulls Back Auto Apply
Job search giant Indeed has officially paused the fully automated mode of its newly launched “Apply for Me” feature, following swift resistance from recruiters and employers concerned about paying for bot-generated job applications....
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Indeed's Rivals Need to Step Up!
I recently sounded the alarm on the misteps of Indeed, writing about how HR professionals and employers are finally reaching a breaking point over rising costs, complex pricing/rules, and diminishing returns. The phrase “The Indeed Tax” has begun to resonate deeply with anyone managing a...
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Electrician Recruiting Platform Lands $10M
Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more. Alright rec techies…..here’s what's happening this week....
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iHire Joins the Freelance Fray
Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more. Alright rec techies…..here’s what's happening this week....
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Media Biz HR.com is For Sale
Debbie McGrath, the longtime CEO of HR.com, has officially announced that she is preparing for retirement and looking for the right buyers or strategic investors to take the platform’s premier assets into the future....
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JobSync Roundtable: Recruitment Operations - The Engine Behind Scalable Talent Acquisition
As talent acquisition landscapes grow more complex, successful hiring is no longer just about finding great candidates, it’s about building the infrastructure that allows your team to thrive. Recruitment Operations (RecOps) has evolved from a back-office support function into the critical…
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KornFerry buys AMS: This Week in RecTech
Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more. Alright rec techies…..here’s what's happening this week....
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Homegrown Employer Branding for AEO & GEO
AI answer engines are changing how candidates discover and learn about employers.Join Dalia's Mikaela Fitzwilliam along with Danny Rojas, a forward thinking TA leader who's worked at nation-wide brands like JCPenny, The Container Store to learn how to build an employer brand that gets surfaced…
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Appcast Partners with Open AI
Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — EarnIn, a leading earnings…
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Talkin' RecTech on the HR Morning Show
I was a gust on the recent HR Morning Show which happens every tuesday live on Linkedin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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HeyMilo Lands $6 Million
Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more. Alright rec techies…..here’s what's happening this week....
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What happens when AI hiring platforms completely ignore the human experience?
What happens when AI hiring platforms completely ignore the human experience? In this episode of the Rec Tech Podcast, host Chris talks with Torin Ellis, founder of Ngoma (spelled N-G-O-M-A), a groundbreaking service acting as an additional trust layer for AI data systems and tools. Ngoma...
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Ziprecruiter Integrates with Claude
MONTREAL — Lucas Martinez, the co-founder and long-time CEO of global job search platform Talent.com, has announced he is stepping down from his role effective July 31st. https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-com-ceo-to-step-down-after-15-years/ Lattice CEO Sarah Franklin declared that AI transformation…
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From SEO to AIO - Preparing for the New Frontier of Job Search | JobSync Roundtable
The way candidates find their next role is changing fast. Instead of just keyword searches and job boards, they’re also asking AI chatbots for shortlists and clicking through AI-generated overviews that synthesize opportunities in a single response. The algorithms that used to rank your roles are...
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Workday Courts Developers, Zipecruiter Adds New Features
First up, Joveo, the programmatic recruitment marketing platform, launched AI Talent Campaigns, an AI-powered talent sourcing and engagement solution designed to simplify how recruiters create and manage candidate outreach. With Joveo’s AI Talent Campaigns, recruiters simply describe the ideal...
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2026 Job Seeker Nation Report
Stephanie Manzelli, Chief People Officer of Employ Inc joins the show to discuss their latest report. LINK: https://www.jobvite.com/2026-job-seeker-nation-report/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Job Board Consolidation
Joblist has been acquired by BOLD, the company behind Monster, CareerBuilder, FlexJobs, and MyPerfectResume. https://hrtechfeed.com/bold-acquires-joblist/ NEW YORK — JobGet, a leading AI-powered hiring platform for the hourly workforce, today announced the acquisition of RippleMatch, a leading...
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Prem Kumar, CEO of Humanly
The CEO of Humanly which just raised $25M for its AI hiring software stops by to talk about the new funding, what's next and how they are using AI to help you hire. LINK:...
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Humanly Lands $25 Million
THIS WEEK IN REC TECH is sponsored by https://www.dalia.co/ SEATTLE — May 21, 2026 — Humanly, the AI hiring platform for hourly, frontline, and high-volume recruiting, today announced $25 million in Series B funding....
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Ashby Launches AI Interviews, Upwork Layoffs
Ashby, the all-in-one recruiting platform, today announced the upcoming launch of its AI Interviewer at its annual Ashby One conference. The product builds on the acquisition of Talent Llama late last year, a startup focused on AI-powered interviewing technology....
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The Greenhouse Benchmark Report: Hiring is Harder
Sharawn Tipton, the new CPO at Greenhouse stops by to share her thoughts on the numbers coming out of the Greenhouse Benchmark Report available here: https://www.greenhouse.com/recruiting-benchmarks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Phenom buys Plum, Greenhouse buys Ezra AI
Busy week with 3 acquisitions by Deel, Ohenom and Greenhouse. A new CEO at ICims and Built In launches an AI Search enhancement for employers. https://hrtechfeed.com/ Sponsored by our friends at Dalia.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jobsync Roundtable: Candidate Fraud in Hiring
In 2026, candidate fraud has evolved from simple resume padding to a sophisticated, AI-driven operational risk. From deepfake video interviews and real-time AI coaching to “identity kits” sold on the dark web, bad actors are infiltrating hiring funnels at an unprecedented scale. The cost? Data...
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Phenom Buys Plum
This episode is sponsored by Dalia— Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more. Alright rec...
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The New AI Search Rules for Your Career Site
“If someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Google’s AI features, “Where are great places to work in Chicago if I’m an engineer?” your company does not get considered because you have nice values copy. You get considered because the system can find you, understand you, and trust what it finds.”...
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Social Recruiting Ad Company Acquired
NEW YORK — Symphony Talent, announced the launch of Career Finder, a new capability within its SFX Career Website platform that transforms job search into AI-powered discovery — helping job seekers quickly find roles that fit...
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Worki Raises $2.75 Million in Pre Seed Funding
SAN FRANCISCO – Worki, a healthcare technology startup, announced today that it has raised $2.75 million in pre-seed funding to solve one of the most persistent headaches in modern medicine: the fragmented and overwhelming administrative burden of workforce operations....
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Grayscale acquired by Paylocity PLUS Indeed's Community Call
In an April 2nd community call hosted by Chris Hoyt of CareerXroads, Indeed detailed significant policy changes aimed at transitioning the platform toward a more controlled "pay-to-play" marketplace. The key shift involves the sunsetting of traditional XML feed support, requiring employers to...
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Fama CEO talks State of Workplace Misconduct
Ben Mones on Workplace Misconduct and Social Media Screening Report: https://hubs.ly/Q048s49T0 Guest: Ben Mones, CEO of Fama Technologies In this episode, Ben discusses the rising tide of workplace misconduct and why modern screening practices need to evolve with the workforce. With six…
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Lattice and Crosschq Acquire
SAN FRANCISCO — Crosschq today announced the acquisition of Traitify, a leading assessment platform for frontline and high-volume hiring, advancing its mission to build the industry’s first outcome-trained foundation model for hiring....
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JobSync Roundtable: Navigating the 2026 OFCCP Regulatory "Seismic Shift"
The landscape for federal contractors has changed overnight. With the revocation of Executive Order 11246, the dramatic restructuring of the OFCCP, and the finalized 2026 federal budget, the “old way” of managing affirmative action is officially obsolete. Is your organization prepared for the new...
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Hosted by Chris Russell, online recruiting's mad scientist, the RecTech podcast covers all aspects of recruiting technology and recruitment marketing including interesting new tools & vendors. You'll also hear how recruiters leverage technology to find talent. A great listen for HR tech vendors, HR professionals and recruiters everywhere. CONTACT: [email protected]
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