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= Erik Kostelnik = Erik Kostelnik is the founder and CEO of TextRecruit, a candidate engagement platform that leverages text message, live chat, and artificial intelligence to help employers hire better people, faster.

Career
Kostelnik has been in HR technology for almost all of his career. He started as a National Account Executive and then a Regional Sales Manager at Career Builder from 2008-2011. He then served as VP of Sales at Identified from 2011-2014, which would later be acquired by Workday. After that Kostelnik took on the position of Head of Sales at Wrike from 2014-2016.

In 2015 during his time at Wrike, Kostelnik founded TextRecruit, a candidate engagement platform that has helped employers reach 4% of the U.S. labor force since its inception and is used by over 5,800 recruiters and HR professionals today. Kostelnik currently serves as the CEO of TextRecruit. TextRecruit was recently acquired by iCIMS, an enterprise software platform that provides solutions for hiring needs.

Recognition and Awards
Kostelnik was recognized by Content Magazine as a South Bay Area Cultural Influencer in 2016. He was selected as an Upstart 50 Inventor by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2017.

TextRecruit was awarded by the American Business Awards in 2016 as the Best B2B Startup, Best Tech Startup, and Best New Product. It also won the Best Mobile Employee Engagement Platform in 2015 at the Mobile Recruiting Awards, startup of the year by Biz Awards in 2016, and Top HR and Recruiting Tools of 2016 by RecruitingDaily. Recently, TextRecruit was named the Top Mobile Recruiting Solution of 2016 at the RESI Awards.

Writing and Speaking
Kostelnik has contributed to publications such as Entrepreneur.com and has spoken on topics such as human resources, technology and artificial intelligence at conferences and events hosted by Hubspot, Silicon Valley Business Journal, TAtech and General Assembly. He has also appeared on tech podcasts such as Secret Tech Sauce, HRchat, and Chad and Cheese.