Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion

talentspring secures $1.6 million

By Vanessa Dennis - Seattle-based TalentSpring, Inc. announced that its open funding round, where it secured $1.6 Million in investment from Second Avenue Partners and private investors, is now closed. TalentSpring said the funding enabled them to launch and promote their semantic-search technology to the talent acquisition industry and to create another complimentary platform set to debut in May.

the future of recruiting

By Bryan Starbuck - As recruiters invest in moving from transactional to strategic, we found that a technique used by executives in business decision-making translates very well to recruiters to securing a higher ratio of top performers into interviews. The technique is precision questioning, and it has a history of being used by some executive recruiters who were formerly executives themselves. This video provides a short walk-through of a) how the precision questioning technique works, b) how to apply it to recruiting, c) and how Talent Acquisition senior leaders can allow their organization to apply this at scale with a low cost.

talentspring, rejuvenated

By Vanessa Dennis - TalentSpring, an automated candidate sourcing tool that taps into job boards, networking sites, and applicant tracking systems, has unveiled a newly-remodeled platform. Subscribing customers will now have access to source from a broader scope of candidate pools including additional LinkedIn profiles and free job boards. In addition they now have the capacity to sync with more paid job boards and applicant tracking systems.

talentspring explained