Eightfold AI launched Talent Flex, a contingent workforce management solution, as a new component of its Talent Intelligence Platform. Talent Flex delivers an AI-powered solution to help HR and procurement leaders efficiently source and manage contingent workforces, at scale.

As part of Eightfold’s Talent Intelligence Platform, Talent Flex will provide users with the ability to:

• Accelerate Time-to-Fill: Gain instant access to the entire contractor pipeline and hire more quickly by tapping into existing company talent pools of previous candidates, employees and contingent workers.
• Surface Higher-Quality Candidates: Candidate matching helps pair the right gigs to the right contingent workers.
• Streamlined Processes and Costs with Direct Sourcing: Reduce costs through streamlined workflows and processes while maintaining company culture.
• Leverage Contingent Worker Potential: A 360-degree view of talent helps employers make informed hiring decisions based on experience, skills, and potential to redeploy past contingent workers into full-time roles.

Talent Upskilling

Earlier this year, Eightfold launched Eightfold Talent Upskilling. Building on the company’s Talent Intelligence Platform, Talent Upskilling helps organizations meet critical talent needs as well as develop their own network. In addition, it helps them understand talent gaps and provides a personalized development plan for every employee.

At the time, Eightfold said that businesses need the right talent with the right set of skills if they’re to compete effectively. As roles grow more complex and skills evolve more quickly, the company believes all companies have become reliant on the expertise they can build by upskilling their existing workers, Eightfold said.

“Candidates and employees are joining, and staying, at the organizations that support their ongoing growth,” said CEO Ashutosh Garg at the time. “Candidates and employees are joining, and staying, at the organizations that support their ongoing growth. Upskilling is a continuous process, and having access to a platform that develops every individual effectively is invaluable today and essential for the future.”

Eightfold said its Upskilling solution is meant to help organizations meet critical talent needs and develop their own network of employees, candidates and contingent workers. In addition, Eightfold said it would help them understand talent gaps and provides a personalized development plan for every employee.

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