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

Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Paylocity rolled out new features designed to help employers attract and retain Gen Z talent. Includes are on-demand pay, a social collaboration platform and an LMS. The company said Gen comprises 11 percent of its customers’ workforces. Kununu launched Culture Compass, a feature...
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,...
Cornerstone OnDemand bought Clustree, a French technology company with an extensive AI-based skills engine and skills ontology. Clustree’s engine, which Cornerstone says is the world’s largest, uses machine learning to help companies match their employees’ skills with specific job roles. Its ontology is based on the consolidation of more than 1 billion job...
Indeed has added a "skills test bundling" feature as well as the ability for job seekers to take and add skills assessment results to their profiles.  The feature, which is free, is being rolled out in the U.S. With it, employers who post a position on Indeed can add tests that...
Betterworks released Calibration and Feedback Summary, two new features for its continuous performance management software suite. The additions are meant to expand the capabilities of Betterworks’ solution by  performance management solution by increasing visibility into employee performance and potential while simplifying the process for preparing for and conducting calibration discussions. CEO...
Workforce management platform PageUp launched a new solution that introduces automation features to the tool set recruiters and hiring managers use to build their candidate pipelines. The solution, PageUp Recruitment Marketing, uses content management, marketing automation and candidate relationship management tools to reduce the time and costs involved in recruiting efforts. It...
Jobvite has revised the algorithms behind its product suite in an effort to enhance search results and speed the job-search process for both recruiters and candidates. Without offering specifics, Jobvite said its strategy incorporates multiple algorithms and data sources that reflect customers’ company-wide hiring preferences as well as those of individual recruiters. The algorithms...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. 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...
Qualtrics launched Frontline Feedback, a tool that enables customer-facing employees to share customer comments as well as their own observations about products and services. Although the feature’s part of the CustomerXM suite, Qualtrics touts its ability to engage employees by including them in discussions of customer experience. Qualtrics calls Frontline Feedback a collaboration tool...
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...