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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.
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- Yesterday9 min
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 candidates for a role and the specific goals of the recruitment campaign, and Joveo’s AI agents automatically generate the messaging, outreach plan, targeting, and follow-up sequences. https://hrtechfeed.com/joveo-introduces-ai-talent-campaigns/ CHANDLER, Ariz. — Vensure Employer Solutions, a leading provider of HR/HCM technology, managed services, and global business process outsourcing, announced the launch of Communication Hub, a unified, AI-powered workforce communication platform that enables businesses to deliver informed, connected, and engaged employee communications across every channel from a single system. https://hrtechfeed.com/vensure-employer-solutions-launches-ai-powered-employee-communication-platform/ Workday DevCon — Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT, today unveiled new agentic capabilities in Workday Build, its platform for developers to build custom AI apps and agents that run on Workday. The new capabilities include Developer Agent, which lets developers build AI apps and agents in plain language from the agentic tools they already use; Agent-Ready Tools, which provide controlled guardrails for agents to access HR and finance data over Model Context Protocol (MCP); and Agent Passport, which gives agents digital stamps from trusted security and compliance vendors to verify they are safe to deploy. https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-launches-new-tools-for-developers-to-build-connect-and-verify-ai-agents/ ZipRecruiter® (NYSE: ZIP), a leading online employment marketplace, today added automated candidate outreach to its Resume Database. The new feature, called Smart Outreach, uses AI to turn a job description into a personalized message series sent to candidates. With a click, hiring teams can start conversations with candidates without manual follow-up or time wasted. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-launches-new-recruiter-outreach-automation/ Bullhorn, the global leader in software for the staffing and recruitment industry, announced a major expansion of Bullhorn Amplify at Engage Boston 2026, the company’s flagship annual conference: Amplify Digital Workers, four new digital worker skills—Prospect, Verify, Audit and Transcribe—and Amplify Chat, a new conversational interface that lets users interact with their Bullhorn data using everyday language. https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-unveils-amplify-digital-workers-at-engage-2026/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 days ago23 min
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
- 1 weeks ago7 min
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 early-career recruiting platform serving students and emerging talent across the country. RippleMatch marks JobGet’s sixth acquisition and represents another step in the company’s strategy to consolidate the fragmented hiring technology market around a unified AI-powered platform.https://hrtechfeed.com/jobget-acquires-ripplematch/ SAN FRANCISCO — Toptal, the world’s largest fully remote workforce, recently announced the acquisition of Adeva. Adeva is a global IT talent network that connects enterprises and fast-growing companies with highly vetted developers, architects, and technology consultants to support complex initiatives. https://hrtechfeed.com/toptal-announces-the-acquisition-of-a-global-it-network/ Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Ezra AI Labs, the voice AI interviewer that delivers structured, on-demand conversations that feel natural rather than robotic. The deal was first announced on May 5, 2026. https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-completes-acquisition-of-ezra-ai-labs/ Yello, the leading campus and early talent recruiting software platform, today announced the launch of Yello Campus Recruiting Agent – a new AI-powered agent that automates manual work and simplifies building events, sourcing candidates, campaigning, and scheduling interviews, so recruiting teams can focus on engaging with candidates instead of managing software. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-nametag-yello/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago28 min
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: https://www.hrtechnologywire.com/press-releases/humanly-raises-25m-series-b-to-help-companies-hire-faster-retain-and-stay-fully-staffed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago7 min
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. https://hrtechfeed.com/humanly-raises-25m-series-b-to-help-companies-hire-faster-retain-and-stay-fully-staffed/ NEW YORK — Saile, a physician-founded workforce platform targeting the bureaucratic bottlenecks of healthcare staffing, has emerged from stealth mode with $2.2 million in pre-seed funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-staffing-platform-lands-2-2m/ LONDON — RemotePass, the global employment, payroll, and spend platform, has raised $17.4 million in Series B funding led by the EBRD Venture Capital, with participation from 500 other investors https://hrtechfeed.com/eor-platform-raises-17-4m-series-b/ MINNEAPOLIS — Match2, the platform powering the Universal Candidate Profile™, today announced its integration with the Phenom Marketplace… This partnership brings Match2’s Universal Candidate Profile™, Direct Talent Network™ (DTN), and Talent Connector™ platform into the Phenom hiring ecosystem https://hrtechfeed.com/match2-joins-phenom-marketplace/ Contrario announced its official launch. The platform helps companies at every stage hire faster by combining expert recruiters with AI agents that take on the operational work. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-contrario-juicebox/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago7 min
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
- 3 weeks ago24 min
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
- 4 weeks ago7 min
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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