College Recruiter

William Tincup is one of the most knowledgeable people in the human resources technology industry, which includes the world of aggregator, general, and niche job boards.

Many know him from his years of work at RecruitingDaily. Others know him from his current venture, the WRKdefined podcast network. It hosts all three of College Recruiter job search site's podcasts: Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, High Volume Hiring Podcast, and From Dorms to Desks Podcast.

Today's Job Board Leaders' Monthly Roundtable featured William as our guest, with the conversation focused on how job boards can use content such as podcasts, events, webinars, and blogs to build community. The community we want to build may be with candidates, employers, or others but there are mistakes to avoid and opportunities to seize. William helps us see the way.

Employers hiring at scale often employ a lot of people who are paid hourly and whose wages are too low for them to afford health insurance. Those workers tend to be less loyal, less engaged, and more likely to quit as soon as they can find a job with health insurance.

Our cohosts, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, interview Michael Gomez of MGI International on today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast. His previous role was VP HR at Tasty Restaurant Group, a franchisee of Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin Robbin’s, Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut with 7,000 employees in 23 U.S. states.

At Tasty, Michael contracted with WorXsiteHR, creator of HealthWorX, a no-cost medical plan managed by a non-profit, to allow lower income, part-time, and seasonal workers access to useable and affordable healthcare. Michael loves how the plan is ERISA and Section 125 compliant, no-cost to both employee and employer, and generates substantial employer F**A tax savings.

We're taking a little trip down memory lane on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. One of our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group, is unavailable and so our other cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site is flying solo.

Steven talks with Jeanette Leeds, COO of College Recruiter, about applicant tracking systems (ATS), recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) organizations, and whether they used to and currently play nicely with job boards.

Do they view our industry a complementary, or competitive? Are those feelings reciprocal?

Emily Baxter, director of non-profit We Are All Criminals, joins the High Volume Hiring Podcast to discuss the impact on people and employers of 1/4 of the U.S. population having criminal convictions and the opportunities that exist to employers of employing these people.

Not only do these people deserve a second chance when many of us have had far more chances than that, but the data show that they often outperform the other 3/4 who also committed crimes but didn't get caught.

Organizations like MOD Pizza and Dave's Killer Bread understand that excluding from their workforce people who happened to have been caught is detrimental not just to society, but to their businesses. Employers should take the convictions into account and refrain from placing someone recently convicted of embezzlement into a financial role, but hiring those with convictions leads to more a more productive workforce with lower turnover and, therefore, reduced recruitment costs.

If there's one thing that never changes about job boards it is that they never stop changing. Our businesses, at a very high level, are pretty much the same as they were when our industry came into existence in the 1990s. But, scratch the surface, and almost nothing is the same.

A change that some believe is imminent is the replacement of the written job posting, resume, or both with something else. Could that something else be voice? Instead of searching a job board for postings and applying by uploading a resume, will candidates instead be called by AI, go through an automated screening process, and be hired in a few days instead of a few week?

Prompted by the recent acquisition of Ben Groves' ApplyCall by Tom Chevalier's Tink AI, our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site debate.