Products

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

LayOffers, a new online service that connects job seekers with recruiters, will now provide users with contact information for some 370,000 recruiters. The information comes from ZoomInfo. LayOffers describes itself as “a supportive community” that allows laid off workers to share information, access job-search data and track layoffs. In April,...
iCIMS acquired Opening.io, an Irish data science company that applies AI to talent acquisition, and launched a new product based on its technology, iCIMS Talent Logic. Talent Logic pairs Opening.io’s solution with iCIMS extensive set of hiring data points, which the company says numbers in the billions. The product’s meant...
Oracle launched Oracle Analytics for Cloud HCM, a self-service application designed to provide more detailed workforce intelligence by gathering data from across the organization. Oracle Analytics SVP T.K. Anand said the package can be used out-of-the-box and reduces the organization’s reliance on IT. “This allows for closer collaboration between HR...
Talent acquisition platform Lever introduced a number of upgrades as a part of its spring release, which the company hopes will help customers scale their recruiting operations more efficiently. The company said it adapted its Talent Acquisition Suite to begin aligning with new ways of working as employers examine how...
Upwork has enhanced its enterprise capabilities to help large companies identify and hire contingent workers. The platform is designed to simplify the tasks involved with centrally managing a remote workforce strategy while accessing talent. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a range of companies have shifted to remote work....
Eightfold.ai and EdCast teamed up to offer personalized career-planning tools that will help employees develop their own career paths and work toward their short- and long-term goals. The companies, which both put much stock in AI-driven technology, have integrated their solutions so customers can provide employees with the means to...
SocialChorus launched analytics features to help employers measure the business impact of their internal communications. Added to SocialChorus’s Analyze tool, the features include new analytics functionality and an executive summary designed to present a clear picture of the state of a company’s employee communications, better tie them to business initiatives...
CareerArc has integrated an AI and video tool into its placement platform to help candidates evaluate their soft skills and character traits through brief, self-guided interviews. Candidates can use the insights generated through the video assessment to refine the presentation of their personal brand during interviews, on their resumes and...
SilkRoad Technology updated its core solutions with features designed to help employers become more resilient while maintaining their employee experience. The new features in SilkRoad’s recruiting, onboarding, learning and performance modules include automation for compliance and regulatory standards, mobile-only tasks and updated I-9 forms for virtual onboarding, and a modernized...
Newly merged Kronos and Ultimate Software introduced features to their respective products to help customers track and mitigate the impact of COVID-19. Kronos introduced automated reporting capabilities that companies can use to pursue employee contact-tracing through Workforce Dimensions, Workforce Central, Workforce Ready and Kronos iSeries Central. The feature analyzes labor records...