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Digital recruitment 2018: the 20 most innovative French tech!

Our (long-awaited) ranking of French digital recruitment is finally back!

For the third consecutive year, we bring you our selection of the most innovative French tech nuggets  in terms of digital recruitment.

All year long, we scrutinize news and the development of French startups that are redrawing the recruitment 3.0 landscape.

After long weeks of comparisons, questioning and sometimes difficult choices, we finally bring you the 2018 edition of the prize list!

AI, Big Data and challenge-based recruiting on the front burner

In a talent war where the recruitment process must continuously adapt, new strategies and tools for attraction must be brought to light.

Whether it's artificial intelligence or Machine Learning, data analytics is at the heart of digital recruitment trends in 2018.

In fact, many means are now available to recruiters to facilitate identifying talent, accelerate the pre-screening of candidates, or even check the constituent elements of an application.  

Like the previous year, he candidate experience remains one of the top concerns for companies looking to develop their employer brand in order to distinguish themselves from the competition and win the talent war.

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Divided into 7 distinct categories, the 20 companies selected by our editors are promised a promising future in digital recruiting! 

1 - Big Data, AI and Algorithms

2 - Challenge-based recruiting

3 - Affinity recruiting

4 - School Recruitment

5 - Specialty Recruitment

6 - Candidate Experience

7 - Social platforms

Category: Big Data, AI and Algorithms

Data harvesting and analysis are serving the interests of an ever-growing number of industries, and recruitment is no exception. Using the algorithms that are becoming more and more powerful indeed allows the recruiter to refine his or her selection of candidates and to accelerate his or her recruitment process.

Tapewo

The company Tapewo offers a matching and scoring solution that optimizes the recruitment process for companies with a very large number of applications to analyze. Thanks to its customizable algorithm, recruiting teams can define the criteria that match their needs from nearly 550 traits!

Hiresweet

Hiresweet is a solution that uses Machine Learning to analyze the behavior of developers on public platforms such as Github and Stack Overflow to identify the passive candidates most suited to the recruiter's needs. Hiresweet sends a selection of the best profiles to the recruiter on a daily basis and offers, through the highlighting of online behavior, a personalized approach with the aim of attracting talent.

EveryCheck

EveryCheck has created a application verification system to ensure the veracity of what a candidate says. EveryCheck is able to verify all the information on a resume in 48 hours. A quick way to avoid many recruitment mistakes.

Riminder

Startup Riminder combines Big Data and Deep Learning to renew talent assessment. Based on professional trajectory analysis of millions of profiles worldwide and application file analysis, Riminder's AI is able to automate the assessment of a profile's fit with a position.

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Category: challenge recruiting

Challenge-based recruiting helps avoid casting errors! It consists of assessing a candidate's skills through situational challenges. These challenges can take different forms : games, skills test, operational test, etc.

Fiish

"Test Yourself. Get a Job." That's the promise made by Fiish, a mobile app that offers to test candidates' job knowledge and report anonymously their results. A great way for candidates to show off their skills even before sending a resume.

RickRut

RickRut is revisiting recruitment tests. Created to measure and based on concrete cases that future employees may eventually encounter, these tests allow, thanks to an algorithmic analysis, to identify types of behavior. In addition, candidates can evaluate each other and thus highlight the best talents.

Skilero

The company Skilero offers a digital recruitment platform combining sourcing, pre-selection, assessment and decision support. Its particularity? Specialized recruitment tests for nearly 30 professions as well as MOOC-type training to test skills and train.

Onvabosser.fr

Onvabosser.fr offers the promise of work for all! This platform replaces the traditional job interview with a real-life paid test. The preselection for the operational tests are done without a CV or cover letter. The candidate therefore remains anonymous and only their skills will be visible until the day of the test.

Feelinks

Toulouse startup Feelinks organizes events to attract penurious profiles and differentiate the recruiter from his competitors. To decide between a profile among several candidates, Feelinks proposes a game-based recruitment, such as a basketball match. Recruiters and candidates are not introduced and the candidate therefore acts in a natural way, forgetting the stress of the recruitment process. An original way to test the candidate's skills in real conditions.

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Category: affinity recruiting

Affinity recruiting aims to go beyond simple skills analysis and put the personality of the candidate and their soft skills at the heart of the process.

MisterTemp’

By allowing candidates to present themselves in the format of a video, this temporary staffing solution highlights their personality. Reference checks are systematic and each assignment completed is evaluated by the company.

mycommunIT

mycommunIT is a solution dedicated to affinity recruitment of IT profiles. By placing the employee and his or her character traits at the heart of the recruitment process, mycommunIT guarantees optimal compatibility and better fulfillment of the employee in the host company.

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Category : School Recruitment

The School Recruitment consists of identifying and recruiting young talent, both graduates and non-graduates, from schools and universities as part of an internship or first job. 

Seekube

The startup Seekube offers companies to optimize their relationships with schools and recruit students and recent graduates more easily with virtual forums. The company can position itself on a school's existing forum, on a forum dedicated to hot jobs or create its own customized forum.

JobTeaser

JobTeaser offers the possibility for companies to broadcast their job offers and news and recruit in 1 click in the best European schools and universities. A great way to get known by future graduates even before they graduate.

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Category: Specialized Recruitment

This is a category of solutions that allow you to focus your talent identification and candidate pre-screening efforts on an area of activity or a particular job.

Badakan

The Badakan company offers a solution that allows restaurants, hotels and bars to immediately find a skilled employee to respond to the unexpected. With the Badakan app, hospitality professionals can make themselves available for short-term replacement assignments, close to home and with a few clicks. A revolution in the sector!

Yborder 

YBorder is a sourcing solution dedicated to tech jobs allowing to identify the best developers, designers or digital marketing experts in the world. YBorder relies on a large network of local recruiting firms to expand opportunities for candidates and companies.

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Category :Candidate Experience 

The candidate experience is the result of the feelings and impressions felt by the candidate during the recruitment process. Companies are placing increasing importance on its improvement as it has a great influence on employer brand.

Job4

The startup Job4 helps recruiting ... of startups! It identifies the right candidates, selects them and then accompanies them during their integration into the startup using an agile method. Sending the application in 3 clicks, coaching and personalized preparation of the candidate for the interview, Job4 and its team of "HeadHunters"do tailor-made for startups.

Fyte4u

Fyte4u (pronounced Fight For You) helps candidates increase their chances of landing an interview by providing the first tool that makes it easy to create video resumes with a built-in smart prompt. In addition to increasing the chances of landing an interview by 35%, creating a Video CV is excellent oral practice.

Yaggo

Recruiters often have little time to respond to all applications, especially to unsuccessful candidates! Yaggo allows them to respond in a personalized way within 48 hours and provide advice. A constructive and tailored feedback that clearly improves the candidate experience despite the rejection. The process is only partly automated : "Our added value is the human eye. There is no artificial intelligence capable of showing kindness" explains Mathieu Penet, founder of the company.

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Category: social platforms

Social platforms are multiplying and specializing. They aim to facilitate the segmentation of candidates and communication with them. The segmentation is done between generations, by industry or by interest.

Staffman

The Toulouse-based startup Staffman offers a staffing platform that centralizes and highlights rapidly available skills. Candidates, freelancers and inter-contracts are highlighted and compared to meet the urgent needs of companies. This way, engineers on inter-contract no longer need to wait for their next assignment. They can quickly find a nearby job in the interim.

Flatchr

Flatchr is a solution that allows the distribution of a job offer on all job boards, school sites or social networks that is over 700 sites. An efficient solution that allows recruiters to focus on the heart of their business, the analysis of applications.

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The 2018 digital recruiting awards

Digital recruitment 2018: the 20 most innovative French tech

The 2018 list of digital recruitment companies!

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Topics: Inbound Recruiting, Recrutement digital, Recrutement 3.0, Palmarès Recrutement Digital 2018