SilkRoad Technology Announces Texting in RedCarpet Onboarding and On-Demand Talent Campaigns
SilkRoad Technology, the world-class talent acquisition leader, announced today the addition of person-to-person texting and SMS notifications in its RedCarpet Onboarding solution and On-demand Talent Campaigns (OTC) at its annual user conference, Connections. These powerful capabilities will enable organizations to source, attract, convert, engage and retain talent amidst the most dynamic talent economy in recent… Read more »
Fountain launches a suite of solutions to improve the application experience for hourly workers
Fountain, the world’s leading all-in-one applicant tracking system for high volume hiring, today announced the launch of a series of platform updates designed to enhance the applicant experience, including a WhatsApp messaging integration. Applicants seeking hourly work apply to 4-5 jobs per day on average, with 85-90% of applications submitted via mobile device. In a… Read more »
Mitratech Acquires Talent Management Platform TalentReef
Today, Mitratech, a leading global provider of legal, compliance, and HR software, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the high-volume, hourly employee-focused applicant tracking and onboarding platform, TalentReef. “We welcome TalentReef into the Mitratech community and are excited about our collective vision.” TalentReef, the market-leading talent management platform purpose-built for location-based, high-volume hourly hiring, automates… Read more »
Tandym Group Announces Acquisition of Metro Systems
Tandym Group (“Tandym”), a leading national recruitment, contract staffing, consulting, and workforce solutions company, has acquired Metro Systems, Inc. (“Metro Systems”), a Virginia-based technology staffing firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Tandym is backed by Mill Rock Capital, a growth and operations oriented private investment firm that invests in well-positioned industrial businesses in North America…. Read more »
TestGorilla scores $70M for skills tests aiming to replace the recruitment resume dump
Sending in a resume is the main way a person hopes to get noticed for a job. But a startup out of Amsterdam called TestGorilla is today announcing $70 million in funding for a very different kind of approach: It has built an assessment platform that can be used to screen for a wide range of job… Read more »
Wing Assistant Raises $2.1M in Seed Funding
Wing Assistant, an Irvine, Calif. – based platform enabling companies to find remote talent for recurring work, raised $2.1m in seed funding. Backers included Surface Ventures, Brookstone Venture Capital and UC Berkeley SkyDeck as well as angel investors. Co-founded by Karan Kanwar, CEO, Martin Gomez, COO, Saideep Gupta, CTO, and Roland Polzin, CMO, Wing Assistant provides business… Read more »