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

A roundup of deals, product announcements and other news from the HCM technology community. Korn Ferry released two new talent acquisition products that its said augment key elements of the recruiting process, including best-in-class job profiles, one-click candidate sourcing, insights into talent supply, demand and compensation data, plus predictive candidate...
San Francisco-based Lattice, a three-year-old provider of continuous performance management software, has launched its second product, called Engagement. With it, the company said it’s become the first HCM technology vendor to combine performance management and engagement into a single system. Connecting Engagement’s survey functionality to Lattice’s performance management suite provides...
Conversations with several job board leaders and a look at a number of new tools indicate that services such as Dice, Indeed and ZipRecruiter are adjusting their strategies to focus more on matchmaking, education and candidate loyalty than simple job-posting and database building. For example, ZipRecruiter is “really focused right...
A roundup of deals, product announcements and other news from the HCM technology community. ADP’s first-quarter revenues grew percent to $3.3 billion while net rose 22 percent to $505 million. Earnings before income taxes increased 14% to $647 million. New business bookings at its Employer Services unit increase 8 percent...
A roundup of deals, product announcements and other news from the HCM technology community. Monster’s revenue dropped 15 percent in the third quarter compared to 16 percent in the second. According to ERE’s analysis of parent Randstad’s annual report, Monster unveiled several initiatives during the period and also showed signs...
The movement toward more flexible working practices continues to pose a security risk to small businesses, according to a report from digital security firm Avast. Among other reasons, the company found that just 18 percent of SMB employees consider security when they work remotely. That means SMBs "face the challenge...
While employers give increased attention to attracting and managing part-time employees, a report from the Conference Board suggests that the growth of “non-traditional” workers, such as contingent and gig workers has, in fact, barely grown since the mid-1990s. That’s particularly striking here in the HR technology world, since the impact...
Deploying effective HCM technology can have a measurable impact on employee turnover, according to a report from Nucleus Research. That, in turn, can directly influence an organization's finances, as well as the efficiency of its operations. Rather than view high employee attrition as an acceptable cost of doing business, Nucleus...
In this guest column, Ken Lazarus, chief executive at Scout Exchange, argues that leveraging external recruiter performance data can provide an accurate predictor of success for quickly landing qualified candidates. For years, the magical “resume-to-job-matching” algorithm has represented the Holy Grail of recruiting for corporate talent acquisition leaders. Unfortunately, despite...
For years, businesses have known that poor customer service leads not only to unhappy customers but fewer brand advocates. Since we hear more leaders talk about their employees as “customers,” and more talent acquisition specialists thinking about “recruitment marketing” and encouraging workers to hype their employer over social media,...