Episodes
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
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.
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Gigged.AI’s $1.95M Seed Round and AI-Fueled Talent Marketplace
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
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
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Economist Andrew Flowers Answers the Recession Questions on Everyone’s Mind
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
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.
Friday Jan 13, 2023
One of the Best Kept Secrets of Work Tech
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
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.
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
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
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
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
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
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.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Beamery’s $50M Series D Round and $1B Valuation with CEO Abakar Saidov
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
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.
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Beeline Acquires Utmost and Leads the Market Into Total Talent
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
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."
Friday Apr 16, 2021
How Has COVID Impacted the Independent Workforce?
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
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.