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Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. While salary is still a priority for candidates, flexible and remote scheduling options play an outsized role in their decision-making, according to FlexJobs. But, the company found, many job seekers can get...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Josh Cohen, the digital marketing director of Upnetic, a small business services platform and the Tarkenton Companies, an agency that helps businesses reach and service the SMB market. For the...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. Mark: Virti is a learning platform that emphasizes experiential learning. It's founder and CEO, Alex Young, has an interesting background. He's a trauma and orthopedic surgeon, and also a gamer. Four years before starting Virti, he...
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, 52% of American employers have added an average of six new voluntary benefits to demonstrate their support for their employees’ physical, social, mental and emotional wellbeing. That’s according to Buck's 2022 Wellbeing and Voluntary Benefits Survey, a biennial study that tracks...
As a buzzword, “artificial intelligence” is lobbed freely around the technology business, used to describe both streamlined workflows with less human interaction, and the application of large datasets to specific tasks. But how is actually applied when to comes to talent acquisition? Although AI has been a recruiting tool for years, actually...
Nearly two-thirds of HR professionals – some 63% – have revisited their department’s structure in reaction to changes they’ve seen between 2020 and 2021. Meanwhile, HR consultant McLean & Company’s 2022 Trends database suggests that only 37% of non-HR professionals see their HR team as a partner in the planning...
SPONSORED We talk with Cadient CEO Jim Buchanan about the needs of high-volume employers, the labor market in industries such as retail, restaurants, hospitality and healthcare, and the impact of Covid-19 on hiring efforts throughout the economy. Hopefully, we're coming out of the pandemic. How has talent acquisition been changed by...
High-volume ATS Fountain released Fountain Source, a collection of sourcing tools and services that, among other features, includes a direct integration with the job board Indeed. Combined with its existing capabilities, Fountain Source will help employers to “automate and optimize where and how they spend their sourcing dollars,” the company...
The need for better efficiency is one of the key drivers behind many employers' decision-making as they consider which new talent acquisition technologies to purchase. A study of TA trends by the HCM research firm Aptitude Research – “Top TA Tech Trends in 2022” – identified a number of concerns...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Learning platform WorkRamp raised $40 million in a Series C round co-led by Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund and Susa Ventures. The round brings WorkRamp's total funding to over $67 million. Since the start of 2021, WorkRamp said it’s...