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Discover how professionals have used succession planning software to identify and develop their future leaders. In this article, industry experts share their personal experiences ranging from enabling leadership growth with Qooper to using comprehensive talent management systems. Enabling Leadership Growth With Qooper Qooper is a platform for employee learning that enables...
Appcast acquired Bayard Advertising, combining a programmatic advertising leader with a recruitment marketing firm that works with clients across industries. The acquisition will package Appcast’s programmatic technology with Bayard's recruitment marketing capabilities and also, Appcast said, expand its offerings to cover the entire recruitment marketing process. Together, the companies will...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Some 58% of employed workers are actively trying to make a career change, according to the FlexJobs 2023 Spring Work Insights Survey. An additional 25% said they’ve already either attempted or successfully made a career change. Behind the...
Nervous Woman
Although the use of AI continues to grow, its role in the workplace has yet to be solidified, and that's putting employees on edge. A study by Qualtrics found that executives were the most likely people to say they were looking forward to the potential impact of AI, with 64%...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. In its seven years, the startup Joonko developed a hiring platform focused on DEI, employed dozens of people and raised a total of $38 million and now it's gone. A couple of weeks ago,...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Generative AI-related job postings in the U.S. jumped about 20% in May, according to data from Indeed. The report also showed that searches for generative AI jobs jumped to 204 per million total jobs searched that month from...
HireRight acquired a majority share of Digital Trusted Identity Services, or DTIS, an FBI-approved “channeler” that specializes in the collection and processing of biometric and biographical data. The FBI describes channelers as helping to expedite the delivery of identity history summaries on “behalf of the FBI.” The companies submit fingerprints...
Employers are expected to hire more workers because of the recent rise of generative AI, according to a study from Upwork. Specifically, 64% of C-Suite leaders said that AI has expanded their hiring plans.   The uptick is driven by companies need for both new hires and outside specialists to...
It seems like every day there’s a new story about OpenAI. The the most recent is notably dramatic – a class-action lawsuit is taking form, with plaintiffs alleging the company ran afoul of privacy and copyright rules as it scraped data to train its ChatGPT app. But there’s also quieter...
A majority of workers believe that adopting “emerging technologies” -- like generative AI and machine learning -- would benefit their company. But at the same time, more than half, around 59%, say their senior leadership is slow to embrace new tools, according to a study from EY. In fact, 48%...