Technology has always played a role in the recruitment process, but more recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have catapulted it to the lead item in the agenda of every chief human resource officer. From talent engagement to employer branding and candidate assessment, a recent JazzHR study revealed that six in ten […]

By Kunal Gupta For years, the biggest challenge in the recruiting industry was manually testing applicants. Now, thankfully, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a reality and its use for recruitment is rapidly evolving. Soon, the days of reading endless resumes and covering letters, then holding interviews, will give way to AI-led candidate assessment. Job seekers will […]

By Amy Arenz As the software industry has exploded, recruiting firms have sprung up to fill the specialised needs of software companies. However, not all recruiters are made equal and finding the right recruitment partner can be the difference between success and failure. An added complication to the search for a great partner is the […]

By Georgios Chiotis But despite the urgent need for recruiters to change their approach in order to move with the times and keep up with an ever-evolving society and economy, too many still look to hire graduates based on a traditional recruitment process, which tends to focus solely on work experience as a marker of […]

By Yogita Tulsiani MD & Co-founder, iXceed Solutions (Global Tech-Recruiter Provider) There was a time when recruiters placed a job description and anticipated that the vacant position will be filled spontaneously. However, in this time of talent confrontation, it has become tough to find the right candidate for the job. Also, there are numerous challenges […]

PageUp today confirmed its acquisition of Dublin-based recruitment marketing Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, Clinch. The acquisition of Clinch expands PageUp’s recruitment software offering to include sophisticated proactive sourcing and other recruitment tools including: content management, automated recruitment marketing and enhanced candidate relationship management. Founded in 2014, Clinch has built an innovative suite of […]

As Artificial Intelligence, technical automation and Bots are transforming the nature of work and workplace culture, there is a need for educational institutes and skills-building programme initiatives to pace with the changing industry demands. The Bots, however, are yet to master the Emotional Quotient and this is where soft skills like comprehension and empathy of […]

By Nina Vaca It’s hard to believe that we are about to enter the third decade of the 21st century. And although there has never been a better time to be part of the tech industry, the ongoing IT revolution comes with its own challenges. On one hand, advances in machine learning (ML) and artificial […]

By Jason Mudd Finding talent is a key component in running a successful company. In many industries, especially technology, health care, and construction, the shortage of qualified workers makes recruiting difficult for employers. Larger companies have budgets to hire recruiters, whereas most smaller companies post on job boards and hope for the best. Every company […]

By Jennifer Liu With the demand for workers with advanced tech skills skyrocketing, many companies are putting more resources into recruiting, hiring and nurturing the right talent to remain in the global competition. That means employees willing to put time into developing tech skills may have the upper-hand in landing some of the most in-demand […]

By Komal Dangi It is important to spend time refining your hiring process to ensure you are bringing aboard the best candidates, Recruiting is time-consuming and expensive, so it’s no surprise that staffing managers and talent management professionals are on the lookout for tips and tricks to ease the process while maintaining effectiveness. Read More: […]

by Danni White Employee engagement is a critical aspect and an important dynamic in the recruitment sub-sector. Today top-notch organizations gather data to see how the information can be used to make changes in human resource management. Data collected allows personnel in charge of employee recruitment and engagement better understand how to improve the process. […]

By Narinder Kapur Global recruiter exchange platform CBREX Technologies Pvt. Ltd has raised $1.1 million (approximately Rs 7.89 crore at current exchange rates) in a funding round, according to reports. The company raised the capital from a group of undisclosed high net-worth individual investors, YourStory reported. VCCircle has reached out to the company on the […]

By Chris, As companies turn to artificial intelligence for help making hiring and promotion decisions, contract negotiations between employers and vendors selling algorithms are being dominated by an untested legal question: Who’s liable when a robot discriminates? The predictive strength of any algorithm is based at least in part on the information it is fed […]

By Stuart Thomas, Recruitment Industry Specialist If you’ve been in recruitment long enough, you will inevitably have heard some tired recruiter groan about how much they hate doing business development. You might even have been that tired recruiter who hates touting for new business. Getting on the phone and trying to convince an absolute stranger […]

This report focuses on the global AI Recruitment status, future forecast, growth opportunity, key market and key players. The study objectives are to present the AI Recruitment development in North America, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India and Central & South America. To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyze their development plan and […]

The Indian railways has successfully conducted one of the “world’s largest recruitment exercises” wherein 2.4 crore application were received for 1.27 lakh vacancies on critical safety and operational posts, the national transporter said Thursday. Two recruitment notifications — one for Assistant Loco Pilots and technician and the other for Level-I (erstwhile group D) posts — […]

By Jennifer Liu There are nearly 1 million open tech jobs in the U.S., and they’re lucrative. A 2019 report from iCIMS, a recruitment software provider, says app software developers are the most sought-after tech workers, making up nearly one-third of all tech openings. Workers in this role earn a mean annual salary of $108,080, […]

By Prarthana Ghosh Recruitment is the end-to-end process of effectively and efficiently sourcing, screening, selecting, and appointing the best-suited candidate to the right role. This entails not only filling in vacancies but also predicting talent requirements and proactively managing talent. For example, with succession planning becoming an effective practice across sectors, especially for senior executives, […]

New research into job-seeker attitudes to digitization, automation and AI in the recruitment process has revealed how job-seekers are cheating recruitment technology platforms, to better their chances of landing a job. Seven in ten (67%) job seekers admitted to deliberately using optimization strategies to improve their chances of getting a job. The study, Hiring Humans […]

By Pallavi Jha, During the last couple of years, venture capitalists and private equity players have invested more than $1.87 billion in companies that make HR and workforce-related software. From cloud-based software to building entirely new infrastructure, companies are investing heavily in HR technology. The massive disruption that machine learning and automation has caused has […]

By Seth Colaner Fountain occupies a large niche. The company, which just announced a $23 million funding round, provides a job recruiting and onboarding platform for gig, part-time, and hourly workers. Hiring these kinds of workers presents a different set of challenges from those faced by other job platforms, and Fountain is tapping into automation […]

by Marianne Chrisos Technology can be an incredible tool for your recruitment team. In fact, most people are connected to their job search or employer they currently work for through an app or an internet job board. Using technology to spread your job listing is not only a popular way to get relevant applicants but […]

The AI system being used by the London-based business has replaced human recruiters with the AI system. The company has also saved 100,000 hours of human recruitment time in 2018 by using AI to analyse video interviews, the Guardian reported. The technology scans graduate candidates’ body language, word choice, facial expressions, and checks them against […]

The Centre is likely to soon finalise and announce a single National Recruitment Agency for recruitment to all Group C and D posts in the government, bring all government training institute under one overarching Training department and usher in a unified single foundation course for entrants to All India services. ET has gathered that the […]

By Matt Fischer, President & CTO at Bullhorn at Bullhorn Artificial intelligence (AI) software isn’t new, but it has certainly become more widespread than ever before. Now cheaper to make and develop, AI technology is an integral part of our everyday lives. This also means that it is easier than it has ever been for […]

By Brian O’Connell Good corporate hires don’t happen in a vacuum. Usually, there’s a talented job recruiter behind a quality hire. When a business has a big position to fill, they automatically need a hiring professional who can write and place employment ads, reach out to and vet qualified candidates, conduct interviews, and make and […]

By Stuart Gentle Fuelled by surging rates of new market entrants, the maturity and saturation of established sourcing channels have eroded competitive advantages previously offered by mainstream technology solutions. More users on common commercial platforms has led to more ‘noise’, spiking volumes of recruiter activity, job announcements and candidate outreach which make it harder for […]

Unilever has claimed it is saving hundreds of thousands of pounds a year by replacing human recruiters with an artificial intelligence system, amid warnings of a populist backlash against the spread of machine learning. The multinational told the Guardian it had saved 100,000 hours of human recruitment time in the last year by deploying software […]

By Josh Bersin For years leaders have grown their companies by issuing the demand “go out and hire someone who knows how to do this!” This approach leads HR departments and hiring managers to retain expensive recruiting firms, spend millions of dollars on recruitment advertising, and often hire expensive sources to try to “steal” great […]

By Prarthana Ghosh After preparing a job description, the three S’s of recruitment is your next process-pyramid – sourcing, screening, and selection. With the added advantage of multiple job portals and social media, candidate sourcing has become a lot simpler, but that has also led to humongous volumes of applications that most recruiters need to […]

By Prarthana Ghosh An applicant tracking system (ATS) is defined as a software solution to manage all recruitment needs and that serves as a data bank for all hiring processes. ATS software have become one of the go-to solutions to save time and resources in talent acquisition. While basic ATS have been around since 1991, […]

By Ljubinko Zivkovic VentureBeat reports on two new high fundings for startups developing artificial intelligence. Umbo Computer Vision (UCV) works on autonomous video security systems to businesses, while Xor is developing an AI chatbot platform for recruiters and job seekers. Both startups are located in San Francisco, and UCV is a joint venture with Taiwan […]

By Lynda Spiegel Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous in corporate recruiting, including Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software that scans resumes for relevant keywords, algorithms that identify and connect with passive candidates on social media via bots, and virtual reality interviewing. Now, you can add real-time personality screening to that list. An increasing number of companies conduct […]

By Lynda Spiegel Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous in corporate recruiting, including Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software that scans resumes for relevant keywords, algorithms that identify and connect with passive candidates on social media via bots, and virtual reality interviewing. Now, you can add real-time personality screening to that list. An increasing number of companies conduct […]

By Adrie Smith, head of content and branding, Recruitee Recruiters are some of the busiest people around. And while connecting candidates with companies and helping people make major career decisions should be rewarding, the time spent on administrative tasks is crippling. It is no wonder that recruitment and HR are considered tired, back-office functions when […]

If there’s one word you have heard the most this year, it is AI. Be it robots or retail or self-driving cars, AI is making inroads everywhere. Similarly, in the world of work, be it jobs or recruitment or training, AI is changing the way we work, the way we hire and the way we […]

Written by Zoe Morris, In previous years, a retailer with an IT team or bespoke software behind it would be seen as something of an oddity, unless they were a large High Street chain. Now, even small businesses are seeing the benefits that a digital platform can bring and are investing in solutions that can […]

Waiting for that one call or email from a company to let you know if you’ve been selected or not can be stressful. The entire process is long and tedious, and can be blamed on the fact that large corporates receive millions of applications every year and don’t have the time and bandwidth to respond […]

Element451 is closer to its vision of making advanced recruiting technology accessible to more colleges thanks to a $1 million seed round investment from tech venture fund Cofounders Capital. Creators of the cloud-based customer relationship management platform say they will use the funding and strategic guidance to accelerate company growth. The news comes at a […]

Berlin-based recruitment chatbot startup Jobpal has closed a €2.5 million (~$2.7M) seed round of funding from InReach Ventures and Acadian Ventures. The company, which was founded back in 2016, has built a cross-platform chatbot to automate candidate support and increase efficiency around hiring by applying machine learning and natural language processing for what it dubs […]

Are you a people person, enjoy organisation, and need variety in your work? Then you may well love a role as an HR manager. While often challenging and demanding, HR is nevertheless an important department that keeps a company running smoothly at all times. The right person with the following valuable skills could find themselves […]

Artificial intelligence and facial analysis technology are being applied to video interviews for UK job seekers for the first time, according to reports. This has been met with concern from privacy campaigners warning that it risks discriminating against worthy applicants with biased algorithms. The software is reportedly being provided by US firm Hirevue, which analyses […]

By Herman Morgan For quite a long time now, artificial intelligence and machine learning are buzzing across the globe as the maximum number of industries apply this technology in variant ways to automate and optimize different types of processes. For all the major business verticals, talent acquisition is one of the most vital parts of […]

Recruitment is a time-consuming aspect of running a business, but with the right steps and tools in place, it can be effective and efficient. The good news is that almost every recruitment process can be broken down to the core steps to ensure that both staff and applicants benefit. A Clear View of What is […]

by: Rhiân Davies Attracting and retaining talent is difficult enough, but during a skilled labor shortage, it’s even tougher. Without analyzing data, predicting employee tenure and candidate compatibility becomes little more than a guessing game. Recruiters and hiring managers have reams of workforce data at their fingertips, yet Gartner reports that only 21% of HR […]

by Tess Hanna What is HR technology and how does it fit in with talent management? How can you use it to your organization’s advantage? We’ve got the answer for you. Many small and medium-sized businesses hesitate to invest in HR technology because they think it’s expensive and unnecessary. The right HR management tool, however, […]

Darwinbox, Asia’s leading enterprise HR technology platform, today announced a USD 15 million Series B investment. This round was led by Sequoia India along with participation from existing investors Lightspeed India Partners, Endiya Partners and 3one4 Capital. With the new funding, the company plans to accelerate its Asia expansion and product innovation. https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/business/684699-new-age-hr-technology-platform-darwinbox-raises-usd-15-million-funding-from-sequoia-india-lightspeed-and-others

By Ashleigh Webber It is now just under a month to go until the annual UNLEASH World Conference & Expo in Paris, where HR leaders will get together to learn about the future of work and the latest developments in workforce technology. The event, which takes place at the Paris Convention Centre on 22 and […]

By Srikanth Hiring in India needs to be aligned with hiring practices in developed countries. In developed countries hiring has been transformed by technology. Technology has made hiring seamless, fluid, and free from friction. Gone is the ambiguity many job applicants faced before considering whether they were suitable for a position, software grants them insights […]