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

Degreed acquired London-based Adepto, a platform that allows organization to gain greater insight to the skill sets of employees as well as candidates and alumni. Degreed said the transaction will accelerate its global expansion and add strengthened skills inventories, on-the-job development experience and career mobility tools to its learning platform. The company didn’t disclose the...
Bullhorn launched a new version of its marketplace that includes resources for building customer technology stacks, an increased focus on enabling its teams to develop partner solutions and a new web site. The company said the new Bullhorn Marketplace offers staffing firms more than 100 pre-built integrations. Its support team validates...
Paycom rolled out two enhancements to its Paycom Learning LMS, one to help employees demonstrate their knowledge of a skill and the other to let subject matter experts to create and distribute video-based microlearning content. The first feature, called Performance Evidence, enables Paycom gives employees a way to show their progress in a...
Linked and Monster have added video interviewing capabilities through partnerships with OutMatch and Brightcove, respectively. LinkedIn made available OutMatch’s video tools, originally developed by Wepow, through the Talent Hub marketplace. Outmatch acquired Wepow in Janaury and integrated its tools into the OutMatch assessment platform in September. Wepow uses live and...
Qualtrics, the SAP-owned experience management solutions provider, launched a flavor of EmployeeXM that targets IT executives who want to measure their employees’ technology experiences, then use the data to close gaps and understand where to invest in the future. Qualtrics said it stress-tested the product, called EmployeeXM for IT, by working with Microsoft...
Most companies manage their external workers with procurement-focused systems that address tasks involved with contracts, purchase orders and payment but do little to help oversee their performance on the ground. That’s one of the conclusions of Services Procurement Insights 2019, a report from SAP Fieldglass and Oxford Economics. Though SAP’s bias here is obvious—Fieldglass...
Talent acquisition specialists continue to say marketing is a growing component of their work. If that’s true, it’s worth considering new research from Gartner that predicts efforts to personalize marketing campaigns are on borrowed time. By 2025, 80 percent of marketers who’ve already invested in personalization will wind down their efforts, the researcher...
While it’s not unusual for vendors to publish some kind of vision statement this time of year, ADP’s concept of “smart and personalized” HCM technology hints that the 70-year-old behemoth may be more nimble than most think. In late November, ADP issued a release predicting that during 2020, HCM technology will become more...
A consortium of academic and professional organizations is developing a platform on IBM’s blockchain technology to house permanent, verifiable records of a candidate’s learning and skills, including certifications and qualifications. According to IBM, the platform—called the Learning Credential Network, according to Human Resource Executive—is still in the early stages of development. In a...
Docebo announced a series of updates to its learning platform. The company said its new version, Docebo 7.8, is designed around personalization but also includes enhanced administration tools. At the update’s core is a new AI-powered virtual coach—called, well, “Docebo Virtual Coach”—designed to proactively guide each individual user. CEO Claudio Erba likened the...