I have tracked at least 40 such acquisitions this year via the HRtechfeed.com news site that we operate here at Rec Tech Media. In the first 6 months of the year there were 16 transactions but from July through december there were 24 of them. What we are seeing now are the major recruiting software companies in an arms race to become a single point solution to solve all your recruiting problems.
The Rec Tech Acquisitions of 2020
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My Favorite Startup From HR Tech Conference: CuriousThing
HR Tech Expo Hall Coverage! CuriousThing is an AI based digital interview tool that I feel represents the future of HR Technology. I spoke with Zubin Fitter, head of Partnerships for this Australian based company and got his take on the tool and why its cool.
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Jobvite's VP of Marketing Matt Singer on the new Investment & Acquisitions
In February, K1 Investment Management announced a majority investment in Jobvite, the industry leader in best-of-breed recruiting software. On today’s podcast we’ll discuss that news and more with Matt Singer, VP of Marketing.
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Dawn Burke on the Future HR Professional
Dawn Burke’s HR and leadership career has spanned the last 20 years, most recently serving as VP of People for Birmingham, AL, award-winning technology company, Daxko. Before that she spent 10 years at one of the nation's largest direct mail organizations, MSpark, serving in a variety of HR leadership roles including Director of Recruiting and Director of HR. In today’s episode she talks about HR tech, leadership issues and the future of the HR professional.
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Phenom People Cofounder, Brad Goldoor Talks to RecTech
As the Chief People Officer at Pennsylvania based Phenom People Brad Goldoor manages the Talent Acquisition team and Talent Development functions including Interviewing, onboarding and Employee Engagement. Before that he spent several years as their VP of business development….Phenom has recently secured $22 million in Series B funding from investors such as AXA Venture Partners.
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Wonolo's AJ Brustein Talks About Their Staffing On Demand Marketplace
Wonolo – which stands for Work. Now. Locally….has raised a Series B funding round of $13 million dollars which brings it total funding to $25 million. The company’s technology connects employers with vetted workers “within moments”. The new funding comes from Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. AJ Brustein is one of the co founders and he joins me on the phone from San Francisco. We chat about the company's origin and the on demand labor market they are building in major cities across the U.S.
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Aman Brar, CEO of Canvas
Today we’ll be talking about hot topics in text recruiting with the CEO of Canvas, based in Indianapolis. The company just launched in June 2017 and is gaining traction. We'll talk about how they started, how texting is inserting itself into the hiring process and other HRtech trends in our final podcast for 2017.
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Scott Sherman, Director of Talent Acquisition at Sodexo
Scott Sherman is a Director of Talent Acquisition with Sodexo a food service and facilities management company. In this 37 minute interview he details the types of tech they use to recruit and gives his opinion on a variety of other #RecTech topics including how he thinks HR tech vendors should approach potential clients in HR.
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Graham Pionkowski is an HR Tech Enthusiast!
My guest today is Graham Pionkowski, who's spent the last decade in the world of corporate recruiting, and helped a number of organizations up level their talent acquisition strategy, operations, and technologies. Most recently, he has served as the head of global talent acquisition at Bizarre Voice, a high tech company based in Austin, Texas. Over the last few years, he's been leading all things recruiting, including the TA strategy and operationalizing the day to day execution to bring top talent into the organization.
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Shaun Ricci from Ideal.com Talks to RecTech
I first learned of Ideal.com at last year’s HR tech conference and after recently hearing the news of the new 3 million round of funding invited their cofounder to the show. Their co-founder, Shaun RIcci spoke to usl from their Toronto Headquarters.