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TalentReef Announces New Product Innovations to Advance Its Recruiting and Talent Management Platform

DENVER, CO — TalentReef, the market-leading cloud provider to recruit and retain the Service Industry’s Hourly workforce, announced today the release of their first Hourly Workforce Trends in Recruiting and Talent Management Annual Report. Analyzing data-backed source and hire information within its core system, combined with its client-focused strategy, enables the company to deliver an accelerated cadence of features on a monthly basis. The research is based on robust volumes of key metrics processed through the TalentReef platform, including 16 million applicants and 2.4 million hires over a 12-month period.

“Historically, operations, human resources, finance, and field-centric managers faced multiple challenges preventing effective visibility and delayed decision-making,” states Tyson Kasperbauer, Chief Executive Officer of TalentReef. “Our Recruiting and Talent Management solution brings everything together in a modern, simple SaaS platform; our new product enhancements take that end-to-end approach enabling competitive advantage and superior operational execution by decision makers.”

New Capabilities Announced: 

• Text-to-Apply: With over 95% of all Americans using texting to communicate every day, the text-to-apply feature maximizes applicant traffic by providing a mobile-friendly experience, seamlessly integrating with TalentReef career pages.
• Indeed Sponsored Jobs: As the first jobs applicants see in the Indeed search results, sponsored jobs receive 5x more clicks than non-sponsored jobs. TalentReef customers can seamlessly sponsor any Indeed job postings right from within the TalentReef platform.
• Improved Employee Dashboard: This newly improved dashboard drives notifications and better communication and collaboration between employers and employees.
• Employee Engagement Surveys: Traditional performance reviews do not work for the hourly space. Employees need continuous check-ins and feedback via mobile devices to stay engaged and aligned with business objectives.
• Platform and Database Migration Release: We made system-wide changes to eliminate downtime; supported by continuous deployments to Amazon Web Services, and removing constraints from the Database and Application levels by automating the entire DB existing tables online scheme change process into a one button operation.
• Single Sign-On Capabilities: This new capability for employees effectively drives Employee Portal usage, adoption, and ease of access for the hourly workforce.

“This is our biggest product announcement in history,” said Tim Leonard, Chief Product Officer of TalentReef. “The TalentReef Release Summer ‘18, combined with our planned Releases in Fall and Winter ‘18, and further in ‘19 encompass a number of major infrastructure upgrades and new features to continue to arm our customers with a strategic asset for their businesses.”

About TalentReef

TalentReef Announces SaaS-Industry Veteran as New Chief Executive Officer

DENVER, CO — TalentReef, the market-leading cloud provider to recruit and retain the Service Industry’s Hourly workforce, today announced that Richard Crawford has been named President and Chief Executive Officer. Richard’s successful executive background and experience will be instrumental in continuing to expand TalentReef’s market share as the leader for the service industry’s hourly workforce. The selection of Crawford caps a search process of experienced SaaS CEOs throughout the country and was a unanimous decision by the TalentReef Board of Directors.

“Rich is a proven CEO and has done an outstanding job scaling and leading other SaaS companies,” states John P. Raeder, Jr., TalentReef Chairman. Raeder adds, “Rich is a great fit with the TalentReef mission. The Board and I are confident that Rich is the right person to build on the momentum TalentReef has gained over the last few years.”

Crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management degree from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining TalentReef, he has excelled in executive leadership roles at market leading companies. Most recently, Crawford was the CEO at Samba Safety where he led the SaaS company from a small regional driver risk solution provider to the leading national supplier of driver risk management solutions to enterprise customers as well as trucking, transportation, and middle market companies.

“It is a tremendous honor to serve as the CEO of TalentReef. We have an exceptionally talented team that is focused on innovating and transforming the way companies recruit to retain their hourly workforce,” says Crawford. “I am committed to delivering the highest quality solutions to our customers that are easy to implement and easy to use.”

“We are enthusiastic about TalentReef’s momentum and confident that Rich is the right leader to guide our next phase of growth,” states Michael Ramich, Partner of Frontier Capital and TalentReef Board of Directors member.

About TalentReef
TalentReef is the #1 provider for Social Recruiting and Talent Management Systems specifically built for the Hourly workforce. As the market leader with more than 70,000 sites under contract, including the world’s best known and best run brands, the company streamlines how fast-paced operators find, hire, train, and manage their most valuable asset—talent. The Company’s mobile-optimized HR platform (Social Recruiting, ATS, Onboarding, Training and Development, Performance Management, and Analytics) is transforming the way Millennials are connecting on-demand with employers globally. Leading companies across multiple service industry verticals like Focus Brands, Flynn Restaurant Group, LBA Hospitality, and Hansen’s IGA trust TalentReef to optimize their Operational and HR functions on a daily basis.

TalentReef Named an Indeed Applicant Tracking System Star Partner

Partnership Empowers Employers to Reach More Qualified Candidates and Provides Job Seekers with Optimal Application Experience

TalentReef, a leading provider of talent management solutions, today announced, due to the completion of a comprehensive integration, they have been named an Indeed Star Partner. This integration benefits all users (job applicants and employers) of the TalentReef talent management platform by optimizing the hiring and application processes.

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TalentReef Named Among Colorado’s Best Places to Work by Built In Colorado

Denver, CO, January 19, 2021 – TalentReef, a leading provider of talent management solutions, is honored to be named among Built in Colorado’s Best Midsize Places to Work for 2021. Businesses are selected based on data submitted by companies and their employees, and their score in several categories.

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TalentReef Partners with Altametrics to Provide Seamless Data Integration

Integration Decreases Data Entry Time By Up To 86 Percent

Denver, CO, April 7, 2021—TalentReef, a leading provider of talent management solutions, today announced their integration with the Altametrics’ business management software suite. The new Any Connector integration synchronizes new hire data between TalentReef’s talent management platform and Altametrics Enterprise Office (formerly eRestaurant).  

As businesses look to cut costs through increasing efficiencies, having a seamless connection from front-end systems to back-office systems is a key requirement.  For the service industry, the additional challenge of high-volume recruiting, hiring, and onboarding of hourly workers can introduce many inefficiencies and unnecessary costs such as manual entry of employee data for use in back-office systems. This new, certified integration provides any organization using TalentReef and Altametrics’ to eliminate manual entry of new-hire data, reducing duplications, manual entry errors, and decreasing the time to add a new employee to Altametrics’ back-office systems by up to 86%. 

“TalentReef’s goal is to provide a streamlined and efficient experience for our customers and applicants throughout the talent management process,” said Alex Miklin, Vice President of Professional Services at TalentReef.  “For our customers who use Altametrics today, this integration with will provide even greater time and cost savings during the hourly worker onboarding process.”

“We are excited to build a partnership with TalentReef,” said Gurminder Dhamija, Altametrics’ Vice President of Customer Operations.  “The Any Connector integration with the TalentReef platform will help make the employee management process seamless.”

About TalentReef

TalentReef solves talent management for the hourly workforce. Our unique combination of industry expertise and digital innovation drives more quality candidates, creates efficiencies, ensures compliance, eliminates errors in the hiring and onboarding process, and empowers great enterprises to retain talent longer. As an industry-leading talent management solution provider, we leverage over a decade of servicing national brands at more than 100,000 locations to establish optimized recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training and assessment workflows. Our platform integrates seamlessly with business systems to create a single, streamlined experience for all internal and external stakeholders. For more information, go to https://www.talentreef.com.

About Altametrics

Altametrics offers the industry leading enterprise back-office solutions for the restaurant and hospitality industries. Restaurant chains use Altametrics to reduce their labor costs and food costs and to gain valuable insights into their business. For more information, go to https://www.altametrics.com.

TalentReef Major Product Release Enables the Service Industry to Recruit and Hire 77% Faster

New innovative features help hourly employers deliver a streamlined applicant experience that increases applicant flow, reduces drop-off rates, and decreases time-to-hire

Denver, CO, June 8, 2021—TalentReef, a leading provider of talent management solutions, has delivered three new cloud-native features in their Spring Release that combat some of today’s most pressing recruiting and hiring challenges for organizations that rely on the hourly workforce.

As the pandemic begins to wane and more businesses open, the current shortage of available hourly workers dictates the need for speed, efficiency, and engagement in the hiring process. Hiring managers and recruiters need a solution that quickly helps source applicants, automatically engages and communicates with qualified candidates, and digitally onboards new employees—leveraging the hiring managers’ time and allowing them to focus on running the day-to-day aspects of their business.

TalentReef’s major product release will enhance the service industry’s ability to easily reach, engage and hire high quality candidates. It also improves and streamlines the hiring process by providing hiring managers and recruiters with real-time insights for smarter and faster hiring decision-making through the following features:

• Fast Apply(SM)
• Automated interview scheduling
• Two-way text communications

Current TalentReef customers that have deployed these new features have decreased overall recruiting time by up to 84 percent, saving hiring managers and recruiters countless hours attempting to drive applicant flow and sort through applications to find the best candidates.

“Today’s shortage of hourly workers exacerbates the recruiting challenges and emphasizes the need for speed and engagement,” said Richard Crawford, TalentReef CEO. “Built on our deep industry expertise and our comprehensive talent management platform, our Spring Release delivers the innovations the service industry needs to compete for the best hourly talent now and in the future.”

To kick-off the Spring Product Release, TalentReef hosted a webinar featuring Adam Seubert, Sr. Vice President of Product Management for TalentReef. To watch a replay of the webinar, go to https://learn.talentreef.com/webinar-2021-spring-release.

About TalentReef

TalentReef solves talent management for the hourly workforce. Our unique combination of industry expertise and digital innovation drives more quality candidates, creates efficiencies, ensures compliance, eliminates errors in the hiring and onboarding process, and empowers great enterprises to retain talent longer. As an industry-leading talent management solution provider, we leverage over a decade of servicing national brands at more than 100,000 locations to establish optimized recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training and assessment workflows. Our platform integrates seamlessly with business systems to create a single, streamlined experience for all internal and external stakeholders. For more information, go to https://www.talentreef.com.

TalentReef Introduces Integrated Conversational AI Chatbot

Leading talent management platform delivers innovation to help solve today’s hourly workforce hiring crisis

Denver, CO, September 14, 2021—TalentReef, a leading provider of talent management solutions purpose-built to support high volume, location-based hourly hiring, announced today the release of its new conversational AI chatbot, Chat Apply.

Built on a Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine, Chat Apply is delivered via a branded, interactive experience that is optimized for both mobile and web. It dramatically improves the candidate experience through structured conversations that automatically completes applications and schedules interviews with qualified candidates within minutes. For employers and hiring managers who know that quickly engaging applicants makes all the difference when competing for hourly talent, Chat Apply automates the candidate engagement process—ultimately increasing applicant flow and reducing interview no-shows.

“Given today’s challenging hiring environment, integrating AI applicant engagement into our platform is truly a game-changer,” said Richard Crawford, CEO of TalentReef. “Chat Apply provides additional optionality to our best-in-class text-to-apply and application form processes, enabling applicants to engage with our customers in the way they want.”

TalentReef will deploy the conversational chatbot at multiple touchpoints across their platform. Initial supported use cases include:

• Chat Apply – provides an engaging and easy way for applicants to fill out an application and engage with an employer’s brand.
• Applicant Pre-Screen – enables employer to use position-fit questions to automate the assessment candidate qualifications.
• Interview Scheduling – automatically schedules interviews based on customized application and assessment criteria, reducing interview no-shows.

Crawford added, “Only TalentReef offers a complete hourly recruiting solution. Sourcing, recruiting, and apply functionality combined with our automation and customizable end-to-end workflows, enables better overall value at a lower entry point than any niche or point products.”

To demonstrate the capabilities and benefits of its conversational AI chatbot functionality, TalentReef will be hosting a webinar on September 28, 2021, from 10:00 am PT to 11:00 am PT. To register for the webinar, go to https://learn.talentreef.com/webinar-conversational-ai-chatbot.

About TalentReef
TalentReef solves talent management for the hourly workforce. Our unique combination of industry expertise and digital innovation drives more quality candidates, creates efficiencies, ensures compliance, eliminates errors in the hiring and onboarding process, and empowers great enterprises to retain talent longer. As an industry-leading talent management solution provider, we leverage over a decade of servicing national brands at more than 100,000 locations to establish optimized recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training and assessment workflows. Our platform integrates seamlessly with business systems to create a single, streamlined experience for all internal and external stakeholders. For more information, go to https://www.talentreef.com.

TalentReef Named One of the Best Places to Work in Colorado for Second Consecutive Year

DENVER, CO — TalentReef, an industry-leading talent management solution for the hourly workforce, is honored to be named among Built In Colorado’s Best Midsize Places to Work for the second year. The annual awards program includes companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprise, and honors both remote-first employers as well as companies in the eight largest tech markets across the U.S.

“TalentReef couldn’t be prouder to not only receive this award in 2022, but for two consecutive years. We know that our employees drive our success, and we appreciate the hard work they put in on a daily basis,” said Richard Crawford, CEO of TalentReef. “Our team is thrilled to be recognized by Built In as one of Colorado’s Best Places to Work.”

Built In determines the winners of Best Places to Work based on an algorithm using company data about compensation, benefits, and companywide programming. To reflect the benefits candidates are searching for more frequently on Built In, the program also weighs criteria like remote and flexible work opportunities, programs for DEI, and other people-first cultural offerings. 

“It is my honor to extend congratulations to the 2022 Best Places to Work winners,” says Sheridan Orr, Chief Marketing Officer, Built In. “This year saw a record number of entrants — and the past two years fundamentally changed what tech professionals want from work. These honorees have risen to the challenge, evolving to deliver employee experiences that provide the meaning and purpose today’s tech professionals seek.”

ABOUT TALENTREEF

TalentReef solves talent management for the hourly workforce. Our unique combination of industry expertise and digital innovation drives more quality candidates, creates efficiencies, ensures compliance, eliminates errors in the hiring and onboarding process, and empowers great enterprises to retain talent longer. As an industry-leading talent management solution provider, we leverage over a decade of serving national brands at more than 100,000 locations to establish optimized recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, and assessment workflows. Our platform integrates seamlessly with business systems to create a single, streamlined experience for all internal and external stakeholders. For more information, go to https://www.talentreef.com.

ABOUT BUILT IN

Built In is creating the largest platform for technology professionals globally. Monthly, more than three million of the industry’s most in-demand professionals visit the site from across the world. They rely on our platform to stay ahead of tech trends and news, develop their careers and find opportunities at companies whose values they share. Built In also serves 1,800 innovative companies of all sizes, ranging from startups to the Fortune 100. By putting their stories in front of our uniquely engaged audience, we help them hire otherwise hard-to-reach tech professionals, locally, nationally, or remotely. www.builtin.com