Products

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

At its annual Talent Connect conference in Dallas, LinkedIn announced several “key updates” designed to leverage data and take advantage of transformative trends in both technology and user behavior. That updates, said Vice President of Product, Talent Solutions and Careers John Jersin, are meant to address market changes brought...
Staffing and recruiting platform Bullhorn will connect ATS and VMS systems so companies can transfer full-time candidate records into their vendor database and back again. The enhancement to Bullhorn’s VMS Sync solution will automate both the capture of jobs from a VMS and the submitting of candidates to fill those jobs. Bullhorn...
Freelance marketplace Upwork and workforce management solutions provider Workforce Logiq agreed to an integration that will make it simpler for Workforce Logiq customers to source and hire freelance workers through its MSP program. From Upwork’s point of view, the deal provides users with access to a wider range of...
SAP SuccessFactors is going all-in on the notion that “experience” is foundational to successful HR and recruiting strategies. Delivering his opening keynote at the company’s SuccessConnect 2019, CEO Greg Tomb said that going forward, SuccessFactors will treat the idea of “Human Capital Management” as “Human Experience Management.”  The biggest...
Oracle unveiled new features for HCM Cloud that shows the company's continued focus on improving the experience for employees, candidates and even HR, even as they streamline collaboration and workflows. The HCM Cloud updates are intended to help companies meet increasing demands from candidates and employees about their experiences, and...
Beamery launched a new platform that matches data from legacy systems with information from external sources to create more detailed profiles and improve search-targeting. Beamery said the platform, the Talent Operating System, will allow enterprises to manage the recruiting and hiring process from one place. The TOS centralizes candidate data, applications...
Indeed launched a new hiring platform aimed at employers seeking better matchmaking between themselves and technology professionals. Called Seen by Indeed, the product is based on Indeed Prime but, the company said, “takes a more holistic view of tech talent.” Employers have been wringing their hands for years about the...
In this guest column, Amanda Wright of the web site Better Buys, details five tactics that, while simple, can go a long way toward establishing gender equality in your company. Today, many people believe the gender gap is shrinking due to the number of companies touting their progressive efforts toward diversity. But the...
Visier added new features to its Visier People platform to provide enterprise organizations with insights into their hourly, contract and seasonal workers. The package, called Visier People Workforce, connects workforce data from any available source to generate information business leaders can use to develop and implement more effective workforce strategies. Noting that some 60 percent...
Communications app Groupe.io added task-management, data-checklist and biometric authentication features to aid enterprise compliance, operations and security efforts and provide more detailed workforce management data. The new tools are intended to help “improve and streamline” the workload of deskless employees. Managers and supervisors find it increasingly difficult to track assignments, deadlines and...