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Bullhorn is the clear market leader for staffing tech. CEO and Founder Art Papas has been at the helm for 24 years. He's led the company from its startup roots in South Boston to a global staffing industry powerhouse with offices and team members on several continents. In the early 2000s, when Bullhorn had just a handful of customers, Art was known to say “All roads lead to Bullhorn.” Seems like he's paved the way for that to sound more like an observation of current staffing tech adoption than the goal it was back in the day. Art stopped by WorkTech to check in with Founder George LaRocque on the state of staffing and staffing tech, and to chime in on some of the trends George has been noticing in the market. The result, a conversation that quickly ties the past, present, and future of staffing and staffing tech. LaRocque sees tech-forward staffing firms tying into employer's Work Tech stacks while providing a high level of service. Papas sees a relationship-driven industry that requires humans in the loop. In this conversation, you'll learn about Bullhorn's culture, leadership, and strategic view of the market and the trends that are shaping it.

UK-based Gigged.AI announced a $1.95 million Seed Round led by Par Equity, bringing its total raised to $2.93 million. CEO and co-Founder Rich Wilson discussed the round and Gigged.AI's product with George LaRocque. In this interview you'll learn: What's happening in the market and internally at Gigged.AI that made this the right timing for its Seed Round. What it was like to raise capital in this economic climate. How Gigged.AI leverages AI to augment external and internal hiring. How the company and product differentiates from other marketplaces. What the future looks like for Gigged.AI 

Economist Andrew Flowers of Recruitonomics (https://recruitonomics.com) addresses the questions on everyone's minds: What's the likelihood of the US slipping into a recession? What should HR and talent leaders be watching in today's economy? Are there new realities of the job market in relation to the economy? How will pay transparency impact the job market? What would trigger a recession? Andrew talks about the current economic climate from a labor market point of view with WorkTech Founder George LaRocque.

VensureHR CEO Alex Campos and PrismHR CEO Gary Noke discuss the merger of their firms and the subsequent merger with Namely, with WorkTech Founder George LaRocque. While the merger wasn't kept secret, you'll probably find the breadth, scope, and scale of the resulting entity a surprise. PrismHR is the leading back-office technology that powers the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry. In the same way that it powers the PEO industry, it powers the VensureHR family of PEOs, and now with Namely in the mix they provide a path for employers growing out of the PEO model. They do this in a modular fashion, providing the ultimate flexibility for customers. In this interview, you'll learn the following:  Why the merger happened now?  How the companies and brands will go to market.  The trends in the market right now impacting Vensure, Prism, and Namely customers.  How the economy impacts the PEO model.  What the future holds for this new entity. 

Harri CMO Jennifer Ravalli introduced their Hospitality industry-focused employee experience platform with WorkTech Founder George LaRocque. When you're in the hospitality industry, you know that what others view as back-office HR functions like shift scheduling, time and attendance, and communications are a core part of the employee experience for front-line workers. When hospitality front-line workers have a better employee experience, consumers have a better customer experience. Jennifer and George discuss: How Harri was born out of the hospitality industry The platform's end-to-end reach, from applicant tracking to engagement How workforce management is core to front-line employee experience and customer experience the future for Harri

Hiring and talent assessments have largely seen incremental innovation from the days of filling bubbles on paper with number 2 pencils to web and then mobile interfaces. While the experience became digital, it is essentially the same as it was. Traitify set out to change that when it took assessments to a visual format using pictures and a user experience that candidates can easily engage wit. Their mission was “to make assessments fun, enjoyable, and offer some reciprocity to the employee or candidate.” These aren't terms we usually hear about the assessment experience. This visual experience, supported by rigorous behavioral science validity studies and user testing, has been a success. The Traitify assessments have been taken more than 20 million times with a completion rate higher than 96%. Its visual and mobile native format was attractive to Paradox, the enterprise recruiting conversational AI platform, which acquired the firm in 2021. After the Paradox acquisition, Traitify didn't stop innovating the assessment experience. In fact, well before conversations about that started they had set out to make the experience even more fun and engaging while adding an added goal of making the process more inclusive with rigorous validation studies to ensure neutrality across gender, race, and age. Earlier this year, Paradox introduced their customers and the market to Ash, an animated assessment avatar. The Traitify team stopped by WorkTech to discuss Traitify's journey of innovating assessments, Ash's launch, and how it's been received by customers. Have a look at Ash in the video version of this podcast. In this interview you'll learn: what sparked Traitify to bring assessments into the visual realm the importance of rigorous validation in assessment science how Ash was designed and developed what the future looks like for Ash 

Pep Talk CEO and Co-Founder James Brogan discusses their $3.6 million funding round to fuel the US expansion of its team experience platform with WorkTech Founder George LaRocque. Along with the details of the funding round, in this interview, you'll learn: -what's happening in the employee experience market that led to -Pep Talk's team experience focus -Pep Talk's US expansion chose to do this deal now -Pep Talk's success with large global enterprises, leading them to the US market -their plans for the funding, product, and much more.

Beamery CEO and Co-Founder Abakar Saidov discusses their $50 million Series D Round and $1 billion unicorn valuation with WorkTech Founder George LaRocque. Along with the details of the funding round, in this interview you'll learn about the timing of the deal, Beamery's success with Fortune 500 clients, their evolution into talent lifecycle management, what Abakar sees for Beamery and the market in the future, and much more.

Colleen Tiner, SVP Strategy, Product, and Partnerships and Dan Khublall, Director of Product Growth and Strategy from Beeline join WorkTech Founder, George LaRocque to discuss Beeline's recent acquisition of Utmost and the moves they're making to lead the market to "total talent."

Look at the latest data on the independent workforce, aka the contingent workforce, with WorkTech founder George LaRocque. An already rising trend, its adoption has been accelerated by COVID like so many things. About half of the US workforce is currently or has worked as an independent. More people across the generational landscape are choosing independence. How have businesses done managing this? This episode's interview is with Shahar Erez, CEO of Stoke Talent. George and Shahar dig in on the trends and opportunities for today's business leaders related to this trend.

Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait joins George LaRocque on WorkTech to discuss the recent $500 million mega-deal with the TPG Growth and Rise funds. Learn about: The Rise fund's focus on social impact and how Greenhouse fits from a fair and equitable hiring perspective. How Greenhouse navigated the challenges and difficult decisions in 2020, emerging successful and with this deal in hand. What the deal means and the future holds for Greenhouse employees, customers, and the global recruiting tech market.

Larry Dunivan, CEO of Namely joins HRWins Founder George LaRocque for a revealing interview about leading an HR tech scaleup through the COVID-19 crisis. The result is an incredibly transparent conversation with Larry sharing the difficult decisions he, like CEOs and leaders around the world, have had to make. Get a unique view of how a CEO at a high-growth HR technology scale-up has navigated the challenges brought on by COVID-19 for the tech provider and its many customers. 

Join George LaRocque of HRWins as he looks at the current state and future of assessments with SHL's CEO, Andy Bradshaw. The two discuss SHL leaving Gartner and becoming independent again, how assessments and their role have changed, predictive analytics, the use of AI in assessments, and more.  

On the morning of Monday, November 4, Symphony Talent the recruitment marketing services and technology firm formerly known as Hodes announced its acquisition of Smashfly Technologies, recruitment marketing and CRM platform for large enterprise employers. That afternoon Symphony CEO Roopesh Nair joined Madeline Laurano of Aptitude Research and George LaRocque of HRWins in the Talent Product Plays (TPP) Facebook group to discuss the deal. That conversation is now available to you here on the HR MarketWatch podcast. Learn why Symphony Talent chose Smashfly, where there is alignment and overlap in the product offerings, what customers of both firms can expect, what we should expect in the Symphony roadmap moving forward, and more...  

Here's one for every startup founder, co-founder, or leader. For every leader in an established business that understands that the culture they foster will impact business results more than almost anything else. In the latest HR MarketWatch FutureWork Podcast, hear from Damon Klotz the Work Culture Evangalist at Culture Amp. He came to the interview with a sense of transparency that we've come to expect from Culture Amp. He shares the challenges of scaling culture and employee engagement in a high growth setting, and he uses the experience at Culture Amp as his framework. He also brings real data from a real customer. This is 30 minutes I wish I could sneak into every business leader's day. Enjoy.

SmartRecruiters, a cloud based recruiting technology platform including ATS, CRM, recruitment marketing, sourcing, and more announced a $50 Million Series D round of venture capital today. Join HRWins Analyst George LaRocque as he discusses the raise with SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternyck.  Learn why they raised this funding now, what their plans are for the funding, what both investors and customers can expect for value as a result of the funding, and for the tech entrepreneurs listening - find out what pearls of wisdom Jerome would pass on to you, having taken one company to exit, and now SmartRecruiters through Series D.  

Montage, known for its digitized on demand and live interviews, automated scheduling, and integrated assessments and Shaker International, known for its "virtual job tryouts" and assessment science have announced a merger. Both vendors are known for working with large employers at scale, embedding innovative technologies like AI, machine learning, automation, and predictive data science into hiring. This deal looks like one that can have a big impact on the "post-apply" part of the recruiting tech stack. Join HRWins Principal Analyst George LaRocque along with Montage CEO Kurt Heikkinen and Shaker International CEO Brian Stern, as they discuss this deal, and the future of the new Montage/Shaker entity and the future of recruiting in the large enterprise.

HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque looks at how AI and automation are being leveraged today and where this tech is quickly headed. HRWins looked at other tech segments that are adopting AI-driven platforms of engagement and relates key capabilities back to recruiting. Success won't be found in "boxing out" the recruiter from the process, but more likely enabling both candidates and recruiters with "conversational platforms. Meet CEO and founder of TalkPush, Max Armbruster, one of the innovators in recruiting AI, developer of a conversational platform including messaging and CRM.  

HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque looks at one of the most significant opportunities for disruption in HR technology today: reinventing assessments and selection to make hiring both more inclusive and more effective. Join George as he explores this topic and catches up with Omer Molad Founder and CEO of Vervoe, an intelligent hiring platform that uncovers hidden talent through real-world tests, tasks, and tools designed by leading industry experts. Vervoe replaces face-to-face interviews with Talent Trials, leveraging AI to identify the best hires.

Making the business case to buy new, or replace existing, HR technology can be a daunting task. That's probably why we spend a lot of our time at HRWins with employers on this topic and do recurring research on it. HRWins recently asked 1,000 U.S. business leaders, in and outside of HR, how they see the value of HCM and HR tech across 17 different categories. Do you know which kind of return on investment (ROI) metrics your CFO or CEO responds to best? Do you know how they and the rest of your exec team perceive the value of the HR technology you want to implement?  The results are in our latest report: Making Your Business Case for HR Software. Join George LaRocque of HRWins as he explores the business value of HR technology and some of the insights in the new report with guest Tom Hammond VP of Corporate Strategy and Product Management at Paychex. Tom is one of the leaders behind the new Paychex Flex cloud HCM platform. He shares some things about Paychex you probably didn't realize.  Download the report from its sponsor, Paychex, here.

HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque looks at one of the biggest challenges facing recruiting leaders globally today: the widening capability and skills they have in recruitment marketing and technology. Join George as he explores this topic and catches up with Peter Clare SVP of Talemetry, a recruitment marketing firm that is helping global employers self assess their strategies, internal skills, and technologies for recruitment marketing.

Join HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque as he explores one of the biggest opportunities for employers and HR technology: internal mobility. The job market and skills gaps have employers focused on the connection between recruiting, learning, and talent management more than ever before. Join George as he explores this topic and catches up with Robin Richards CEO of CareerArc, a firm that takes the talent loop even further - into outplacement and career transition.

Join HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque as he explores automation and AI in recruiting. We've all agreed that automating administrative tasks is a good thing, but what about automating the way we find candidates? Join George as he explores this topic and meets a new company, QJumpers, from New Zealand that is doing just that and is now launching in the U.S. after success at home.

Join HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque as he looks at one of the most surprisingly complex parts of the hiring process: interview scheduling. Learn why it's so complex and hear from Maran Nelson Co-founder and CEO of Clara Labs, as they discuss how the process can be automated ensuring a great employer and candidate experience by taking a new "human-in-the-loop" approach.

Join HRWins Founder and Principal Analyst George LaRocque as he continues to cut through the Artificial Intelligence hype and find the out how this technology is being uses, what the impact is today, and what the future looks like for the recruiting profession and the recruiter. In a previous podcast, Jason Robers from Randstad Sourceright talked about his experience with a recruiting technology called AllyO. It was extending deeper into the process than most use cases we've heard about. George interviews Sahil Sahni Co-Founder of AllyO about the success they're having, the impact their tech is having for both candidates and recruiters, and how they see the future for recruiters.  

Culture Amp landed a $40 million dollar D round of venture capital funding. Listen in as HRWins Founder George LaRocque interviews Didier Elzinga Culture Amp CEO and Founder about their new funding, their global community of People Geeks, what the future looks like for Culture Amp, their customers and the HR and talent functions.

If you're thinking about new recruiting technology, you don't want to miss this podcast. Get unique insights on delivering a successful product for customers from the two founders of Greenhouse, one of the emerging new recruiting tech platform leaders. Hear from Greenhouse founders, CEO Daniel Chait and President Jon Stross, regarding their recent $50 million VC funding round, market changes that are impacting their customers, and the future of recruiting. HRWins Founder and Principal Analyst George LaRocque was onsite with Greenhouse in NYC, on the day they announced their new funding. 

Join HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque as he walks through the highpoints and trends of the Q2 2018 HR Tech VC Update report. Follow along with the report here.   At the midpoint of 2018 VC investment has already surpassed all of 2017. Q2's 533 million in HR tech VC brought the total year-to-date to $1.33 Billion. Learn more about that, and so much more in this episode of HR MarketWatch FutureWork Podcast.

HRWins Founder and Principal Analyst George LaRocque takes another look at how AI and automation is being used in the recruiting today and what we can learn from it to better understand the future role of the recruiter. George is joined by guest Jason Roberts Global Head of Technology and Analytics at Randstad Sourceright. Jason shares how AI is impacting the role of recruiters supporting some of the biggest brands in the world, and some of the results of his tests of various chatbots and AI focused on recruiting.

Why are we still talking about fixing performance management? Isn't that old news?    Join HRWins Founder and Principal Analyst George LaRocque as he looks at the reality of where employers are today with adopting new approaches to performance management. Guest Arne Van Damme COO and Founder of intuo joins to discuss whether tech and data can help managers have better discussions and become better coaches in the workplace. If your firm is changing the way they think about people performance, this episode will give you a few things to think about. And, listen to the end to find out how to get your company featured in Arne's upcoming book!

What's the future of recruiting? And what does that mean for recruiters? Join George LaRocque from HRWins explore how the role of the recuiter is changing today with guest Art Papas CEO of Bullhorn. Changes happening in third party staffing today expose what might me the future for recruiters on the corporate employer side. Learn about new trends in staffing models and what's impacting recruiters today.