Appcast was thrilled to attend and sponsor TATech’s 2016 Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, NV. Appcast team members Brian Garfield, Tom Chevalier and Leah Daniels headed out to Vegas for a week of all things recruiting.

Easily one of the greatest opportunities to save recruiters time will be the day that candidate matching software is perfected in such a way to accomplish four main things:

Remember the good ole days when all you had to do was post a job in a newspaper? You paid by the word, got local candidates, and then hired one. The world of advertising was much simpler then. All employees worked in a single office, so location was the primary driver of determining your talent pool.  

This story begins, arguably with the creation of the classified section of the newspaper, then exacerbated by the creation of Monster and the duration-based online job posting. 

When people talk about company culture in the technology startup community, the discussion quickly segues to who has the best chef, the biggest company gym, or the coolest nap pod. It’s less about culture and more about WIFM.

Recruiters are masters of all trades. If only it was as simple as posting job ads and watching candidate’s flow in. In the past, there were few sources to manage—those were the days of help wanted signs in shop windows.

Online advertising has undergone a radical shift in the last 6 years. Rather than relying on teams of media buyers and analysts, most online advertising is now bought, placed, and optimized “programmatically”using “big data” and software.