Phenom People closed $30 million in Series C funding, bringing the total invested in the company to $61 million. The company will use the funds to continue scaling and growth.
The round was led by WestBridge Capital with participation from AllianceBernstein and contributions from existing investors including AXA Venture Partners,...
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Safeguard
Global expanded it workforce management and payroll suite.
The expansion results from the company’s acquisition of WorkFor Group in May
2019, and offers solutions designed to address the onboarding, management and
payroll needs of without their needing to implement additional technologies.
GK Software...
Recruiting platform Bullhorn has acquired Herefish, a St.
Louis-based provider of staffing automation solutions. The company said adding
Herefish’s tools will allow it to offer customers additional options to
streamline their processes.
Herefish’s solutions automate a variety of manual processes and messaging chores, which in turn helps employers improve recruiter productivity, data accuracy...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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...
