Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news.
Australia’s PageUp
has acquired Dublin-based recruitment marketing platform
provider Clinch. The acquisition expands PageUp's recruitment software lineup
to include proactive sourcing and other tools to handle content management,
automated recruitment marketing and enhanced candidate relationship management.
Clinch also offers end-to-end recruitment analytics and...
Workday has combined its services and support functions into
a single Customer Experience organization and created a chief customer officer position
to lead it. The role’s been filled by Emily McEvilly, who had been senior vice
president of services.
The company said McEvilly’s job is to ensure “deployment success and customer satisfaction,” and...
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman’s $11 billion buyout of Ultimate Software is just the most dramatic indication of rising momentum in the mergers and acquisitions of HCM technology companies.
A report by UK-based advisory firm Hampleton Partners said the Ultimate transaction, the industry’s largest-ever deal, was one of 66...
Before joining Beamery as director of strategy, Kyle Lagunas was a highly regarded analyst at IDC, Lighthouse Research, Brandon Hall, Independent Insights and Gartner. Now he creates programs to support Beamery’s product and commercial teams, and works with customers to develop their talent acquisition strategies. We spoke with Kyle...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news.
Job board neuvoo is rebranding itself as Talent.com, and spent about $1.3 million to buy the matching doman, reports the podcast Chad & Cheese. The podcast’s Joel Cheesman quoted the company as saying, “Customers will see zero changes...
Our weekly
roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news.
Dice added Applications Management, a
portal that allows employers to easily post new jobs, update existing jobs and manage
applications from tech candidates. New features allow employers to prioritize applicants
using Dice’s proprietary machine-learning algorithm; quickly preview resumes,
cover letters and screener responses;...
Our weekly
roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news.
LMS provider
Absorb Software has acquired ePath Learning, a cloud-based
learning technology company based in Connecticut. It’s the third acquisition
for Absorb this year following August’s purchase of eLogic Learning and May’s
acquisition of Torch LMS. Absorb now serves more than 1,100 customers...
Although customer service has become more of a factor in HCM
technology purchasing decisions, vendors are falling behind in their efforts to
satisfy the demands of HR leaders and other decision makers.
A survey by Kelton Global, commissioned by Ultimate Software, uncovered a decreasing sense of partnership between employers and vendors. As...
Corporate leaders have begun 2020 with the same concerns
that dogged them during 2019. Specifically, they’re worried about a possible
recession and the difficulty of recruiting and retaining employees.
How will they face these challenges? By pursuing the same approaches they expounded last year: developing more innovative cultures and new business models.
The...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news.
First
Advantage announced a partnership with Jobvite to streamline
screening and monitoring services for the recruiting platform’s customers. The
company said the agreement will broaden its reach and improve the hiring
process for end users.
Alight Solutions, which provides benefits, payroll and cloud...
