Talent Acquisition

Despite the wave of new technology being put to use by recruiters, sourcers and applicant tracking systems, many contend that matching the right candidate to the right role still boils down to relationship-building and telephone time. Here we explore the tools involved and how to strike the right balance between machine time and personal touch.

Culture Amp and Symphony Talent launched new analytics tools, one to help predict an employee’s future, the other to improve the tracking of recruitment campaigns. At its annual Culture First global conference in San Francisco, Culture Amp announced a “prediction engine” designed to forecast employee performance and turnover risk. Called Foresight Engine,...
Phenom People has partnered with sourcing platform SwoopTalent to provide talent acquisition teams with access to a wider range of candidates. The integration delivers best-fit candidate profiles into the Phenom CRM, eliminating the need for manual sourcing and helping recruiters keep track of previous contacts. The companies said their partnership will supply employers...
ENGAGE Talent and PredictiveHR will jointly offer an AI-driven talent analytics platform that melds internal employee data with analytics on industries and competitors.  The companies say this is the first product to compile an organization’s internal talent data, AI-driven metrics on its talent data and people, external data on industry...
Over the last year or so a number of companies have entered the HR technology market with platforms designed to neatly integrate text messaging into recruiting. Among other things, they argue texting is an important talent-acquisition channel because texts are almost universally read and are the preferred communication medium for many younger workers. New research...
AllyO and iCIMS announced an integration partnership that they say will optimize recruiting processes and improve hiring outcomes. The platform-to-platform integration between AllyO and iCIMS’s ATS will move candidates more easily and quickly through the talent acquisition process, the companies said. That should improves recruiters’ productivity and help ensure a positive candidate...
Indeed signed an agreement to acquire UK-based ClickIQ, an automated job-advertising platform. ClickIQ’s technology manages, tracks and optimizes the performance of enterprise recruitment advertising as a way to focus advertising spend in real time. The acquisition will strengthen Indeed’s ability to deliver aligned candidates, said Maggie Hulce, Indeed’s senior vice president of sales strategy....
SMB recruiting platform provider JazzHR will build an integration allowing users to view pre-hire assessment results from Wonderlic’s Wonscore product. Wonscore’s assessments evaluate candidates for cognitive ability, motivation and personality. The companies said reviewing results without leaving JazzHR will save time and help talent acquisition teams increase the quality of...
Cornerstone OnDemand and Beamery are nearly finished creating an API integration that will allow their platforms to sync candidate and vacancy data. As a result, Cornerstone said, joint customers will be able to manage talent acquisition from sourcing to hire, as well as create personalized candidate experience. The integration will help with talent rediscovery,...
Talent platform provider Eightfold launched RPA Talent Connect, a tool that can integrate any talent management system with its Talent Intelligence Platform. The company claims it’s now the first in its space that’s not limited by enterprise customers’ legacy systems. Without requiring an API, RPA Talent Connect syncs the Talent Intelligence...
Visier added “what if” capabilities to its Visier People solution. The features are designed to help front-line managers prepare for future recruiting and retention needs. The what if models are meant to “take the uncertainty out of the future,” said Ian Cook, the company’s vice president of people solutions. “Rather...