Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Chris Russell
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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: chris@rectechmedia.com

  1. 1D AGO

    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. https://hrtechfeed.com/asby-acquires-talent-llama/ Upwork’s First Quarter 2026 earnings report shows a company in the middle of a major transition. While they are making more money per client and seeing a surge in AI-related work, they are also significantly cutting costs—including a large layoff—to deal with a slowdown in overall growth.  https://hrtechfeed.com/upworks-latest-earnings-in-plain-english/ https://hrtechfeed.com/linkedin-announces-new-model-enhancements-for-hiring-assistant/ After a period of cooling and market uncertainty, the technology sector is showing powerful signs of a rebound. According to a new analysis by CompTIA, the world’s leading provider of IT certifications, new job postings for tech occupations surged to a three-year high in April, signaling a shift into “positive territory” for the industry.  https://recruitingheadlines.com/tech-sector-stages-major-comeback-as-job-postings-hit-3-year-high/ LinkedIn announces new model enhancements for Hiring Assistant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min

  2. 4D AGO

    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

    25 min

  3. MAY 8

    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

    8 min

  4. MAY 4

    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 breaches, compliance penalties, and thousands of hours in wasted recruiter productivity. Join us for an intensive deep dive into the 2026 fraud landscape. We’ll move beyond the “red flags” and provide a technical and tactical playbook for protecting your organization without compromising the candidate experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 1m

  5. MAY 1

    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 techies…..here’s what's happening this week. Windmill describes itself as the “context graph for your people.” While most companies have sophisticated systems of record for their finances (ERP) and customers (CRM), the startup argues that the most critical asset—the workforce—is often managed via guesswork and fragmented data.  They announced this week theyve raised $12 million in a seed funding round. The investment was led by Inspired Capital, with significant participation from Primary Venture Partners, Founder Collective, and Oceans Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/performance-management-tool-raises-12m/ NY — Nomad Health announced its formal transition from a healthcare staffing agency to a software platform company. Nomad will offer its proprietary AI operating system to mid-market and enterprise healthcare staffing firms nationwide.  https://hrtechfeed.com/nomad-health-evolves-from-staffing-agency-to-ai-software-company/ SAN FRANCISCO — Checkr, the data platform powering safe and fair decisions across work and everyday life, today announced Checkr Profiles, a portable identity solution that gives individuals control over their verified credentials. Individuals can proactively share them, and marketplaces and platforms can embed trusted identity verification directly into their ecosystems.  https://hrtechfeed.com/checkr-launches-profiles-giving-people-a-verified-identity-that-travels-with-them/ PHILADELPHIA—As AI-generated resumes, deepfake interview responses, and fabricated work histories create a new candidate verification crisis for enterprise hiring, Phenom today announced the acquisition of Plum, a pioneer in psychometric-based talent assessments that validate the durable skills AI cannot manufacture and resumes cannot verify.  https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-plum/ LOS ANGELES — Fama Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in AI-powered social background screening, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed all claims in its patent application covering the foundational technology behind social media background screening. The patent, titled “System for Searching and Correlating Online Activity with Individual Classification Factors,” has a priority date of November 30, 2015, establishing Fama as the original inventor of the technology that has since become a critical component of modern hiring and risk management.  https://hrtechfeed.com/fama-technologies-granted-u-s-patent-on-foundational-ai-powered-social-media-screening-technology/ Performance Management Tool Raises $12M Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    8 min

  6. APR 27

    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.” That was written by employer brand expert James Ellis and he joins me now on the show to talk about how employers should be crafting their career sites to be found inside the new AI ecosystem. Questions Its a new age James when it comes to career site SEO set the stage on where we came from and where we are in 2026? Lets run through your recent post starting with #1 Give your company a real entity home page, what do you mean by that? Make your claims auditable…? Build durable pages, not just disposable job posts..? Publish explicit Q&A pages..?  Fresh matters. Fake fresh does not….? Start measuring citation visibility, not just traffic…explain. Where can people go to learn more about you and your services? LINK: https://choosable.ai/how-employer-branding-gets-found-by-chatgpt-claude-and-ai-search Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    36 min

  7. APR 23

    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 ⁠https://hrtechfeed.com/symphony-talent-replacing-traditional-career-site-job-search-with-ai-powered-discovery/⁠ GAIA acquires SocialJobs ⁠https://hrtechfeed.com/gaia-acquires-socialjobs-as-it-eyes-u-s-expansion/⁠ AUSTIN, Texas, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ⁠LumApps⁠, the connected AI employee hub, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ⁠Comeen⁠, the workplace experience platform specializing in space management, digital signage and visitor services. ⁠https://hrtechfeed.com/lumapps-acquires-workplace-experience-platform/⁠ UKG Layoffs ⁠https://hrexecutive.com/ukg-cuts-950-jobs-in-latest-round-of-restructuring/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min

  8. APR 16

    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. https://hrtechfeed.com/worki-raises-2-75-million-to-power-ai-healthcare-workforce-operations/ Accurate, a leading provider of global compliant background checks and monitoring solutions, today announced the launch of AccurateWatch, its new Continuous Monitoring solution that is designed to help organizations manage workforce risk and maintain compliance after employees are hired.  –  Asymbl, the workforce orchestration company redefining hybrid workforce orchestration across human and digital workers, is announcing the launch of Talent Intelligence and general availability of Recruiter Agent, built on Salesforce Agentforce. Together these products are advancing their Workforce Applications to the next level to deliver unified talent relationship management that will empower recruiters caught between outdated platforms and the pressure of today’s fast-paced and expensive talent market.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-news-from-accurate-asymbl/ My friends at phenom are having a virtual event next week on april 22 at 10am ET Every HR leader is being asked to use AI, but few have the technology to do it. The result? Projects fail, data remains siloed, and the task-level intelligence needed to actually reskill, automate, or redeploy talent doesn’t exist.  That changes April 22. Join Phenom’s HR Innovation Showcase to see how AI and AI agents empower global enterprises to redesign work operations, hire faster, develop better, and retain longer. https://info.phenom.com/hr-innovation-showcase/?utm_source=Rectechmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fy27_innovation_showcase Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
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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: chris@rectechmedia.com

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