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New product announcements, coverage of trends, strategies and customer demand and experiences from around the industry.

Visier added “what if” capabilities to its Visier People solution. The features are designed to help front-line managers prepare for future recruiting and retention needs. The what if models are meant to “take the uncertainty out of the future,” said Ian Cook, the company’s vice president of people solutions. “Rather...
HR technology vendors have launched a number of products to streamline the hiring workflow or improve candidate selection by leveraging various types of data. They may also want to consider developing more educational solutions for hiring managers, while employers examine whether they’re providing managers with the training they need to make talent acquisition as...
Social learning platform Degreed closed a $40 million debt facility with AllianceBernstein and raised $35 million in equity funding from existing investors Owl Ventures, Jump Capital, Signal Peak Ventures and GSV Accelerate. The company said it will use the financing to continue product development, fund international expansion and further develop its capabilities in...
Many an HCM technology vendor planned to launch new products and services this week while nearly 20,000 attendees roamed the exhibit floor at SHRM’s 2019 Annual Conference and Exposition. Among them: Namely, My Ally and TrenData. Namely showed off updates designed to simplify benefits administration and provide ready access to support information...
HireVue, the provider of video-interview and assessment tools, released a new version of its CodeVue product that help technology managers and recruiters uncover cheating in pre-hire coding tests. Developers regularly re-use snippets of code as the basis for solutions in current projects, much in the way that recording artists “sample” bits of...
While HR professionals say recruitment marketing is increasingly important to meeting the challenges of talent acquisition, their understanding of the concept and how to get the most out of it lags, according to a new study by HR.com’s Research Institute. In addition, a lack of appropriate technical skills puts a drag on execution. In...
iCIMS acquired recruiting technology platform Jibe with an eye toward strengthening its offerings in employer branding, candidate engagement and tracking the return on recruiting investments. Jibe will power iCIMS’ new recruitment marketing solution, Attract, which is available as either part of its core platform or as the front end of...
Visier announced a data integration with TrustSphere, which provides relationship analytics and organizational network analysis. Through the integration, users will be able to review ONA metrics and wider workforce data side-by-side. The integration will facilitate better decision making by Visier customers, the company said. Previously, relationship network data is hard to come...
More providers of recruiting and talent acquisition solutions are zeroing in on workflows in their product design and messaging. Specifically, they’re highlighting the efficiencies and productivity increases users gain by taking advantage of their products’ improved processes. Among the latest is talent platform-provider Sense, which this week launched a package...
Providers of performance management solutions are muddying their market’s waters by creating new terms for what they do, confusing customers as they develop new approaches and, at the same time, attempt to reposition PM’s role within the HCM world. As a result, says a market landscape report from Deloitte, employers...