August 10, 2026
A look inside the 2026 RPO Buyer Trends Report
Research by Lighthouse Research & Advisory, in partnership with the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association The Recruitment Process Outsourcing…
July 8, 2026
HR Isn’t Cooling Off This Summer: 4 Workplace Trends That Will Separate Great Organizations from Everyone Else
Summer often brings a slower pace in business. Vacations are scheduled, calendars become lighter, and many organizations use the season to prepare for…
June 25, 2026
The Frontline Engagement Gap: What 50,000+ Workers Tell Us About Who Stays and Who Walks
For years, frontline employers have accepted high turnover as part of the job. The logic is familiar: the work is demanding, people cycle through it…
June 23, 2026
How do you screen candidates when every resume looks the same?
Application volume is at an all-time high, and AI has made resumes nearly impossible to tell apart. Here’s what leaders are doing about it. Talent…
May 18, 2026
TA livestream takeaways: The humanity premium in hiring
On the TA livestream we ran a few weeks back, I connected with Ben Eubanks, our Chief Research Officer, and George Rogers, our Chief Strategy Officer…
April 15, 2026
TA vs AI: The Truth About AI Recruiting Mistakes
Most AI failures in recruiting aren’t AI failures Most of the writing on why AI underperforms in recruiting starts with a guess. Blame gets directed at…
March 25, 2026
The 2026 Lighthouse Tech Awards: Recognizing Technology That Delivers Real Result
In our daily work with talent leaders, HR executives, and solution providers, we see extraordinary innovation happening across the market. The…
March 24, 2026
The 2026 Lighthouse Tech Awards: Best in Class Winners
Every year, the HR technology market gets louder. New tools. New features. More AI. Bigger promises. But for HR leaders trying to make real decisions…
January 30, 2026
2025 HR Tech M&A Activity: Mega-Deals, Agentic AI, and the Learning Shakeup
2025 was a year of big swings in HR technology M&A. Private equity wrote checks measured in billions. Platform vendors went on acquisition sprees. And…
November 11, 2025
Looking vs. Seeking: Why Intentionality Matters in Today’s HR Landscape
We’ve all been there. You’re looking for something: your keys, your wallet, maybe your favorite pen. It’s sitting right in front of you, but somehow…
September 30, 2025
AI in Hiring: The Candidate Isn’t the Only One Using It
I recently sat in on a conversation with a hiring leader who shared a surprising story. They’d interviewed a candidate whose responses felt a little…
September 24, 2025
Where Authenticity Meets Efficiency: 2025 Trends in High-Impact Talent Acquisition
In today’s hiring market, it may seem like employers hold the advantage. With large applicant pools across many industries, companies often feel they…
September 23, 2025
The Candidate’s Lens: Redefining the Hiring Experience
Today’s hiring landscape looks very different, especially from the candidate’s perspective. According to our latest research at Lighthouse Research &…
April 18, 2025
HR Tech Awards 2025 Winners Announced
In our daily work with talent leaders and solution providers, we run into some incredible technology. These tools available to organizations right now…
April 3, 2025
Generational Views: Three Generations, Three Hiring Mindsets.
Generational Views: Three Generations, Three Hiring Mindsets In the current state of hiring, employers must navigate the preferences and expectations…
January 31, 2025
The Future of Talent Acquisition: Adapting to 2025’s Hiring Landscape
As a seasoned HR leader recalls, a candidate once astounded them by flawlessly adapting to the company’s application process, highlighting the stark…
January 14, 2025
2024 HR Tech M&A Activity: A Year of Resilience and Growth
The HR technology market in 2024 was a story of resilience and growth amidst a rapidly changing global landscape. With the U.S. election dominating…
October 11, 2024
Recruitment Process Outsourcing in the Age of AI: Streamlining Value and Impact
This past week I was in the great city of Chicago speaking at the RPO Association annual conference. I had the privilege of delivering a keynote on the…
October 10, 2024
Revamp Your Employer Brand: Why Vision and Value Matter in Talent Acquisition
Today, standing out as an employer isn’t just about posting the right job or offering competitive pay—it’s about creating a compelling story that draws…
September 23, 2024
HR Technology Conference 2024: Busting the “There’s Nothing New or Interesting” Myth
Every year our team attends HR Tech in Vegas, and inevitably every year I hear from someone on the show floor or post-event with the exact same…
July 29, 2024
Ghosting isn’t Unsolvable [Infographic]
The phenomenon of candidate ghosting, where candidates suddenly cease communication with potential employers, has become an increasing concern in the…
May 31, 2024
Quality of Hire is Critical: How to Make it Count
Recently there’s been a considerable amount of discussion on LinkedIn about this concept called “talent density.” Essentially it means that employers…
May 16, 2024
2024 Talent Acquisition Trends: What’s New and What’s Next [Report]
Every year I look forward to our team’s survey and analysis of the talent acquisition market, because it’s a space that moves quickly and has a…
May 9, 2024
Talent Acquisition Trends Study: Top Insights Employers Must Know [Webinar]
When speaking with a talent acquisition leader recently, he mentioned that some of the challenges his team is facing have been the same ones that he’s…
May 1, 2024
HR Tech Awards 2024: Winners Announced
In our daily work with talent leaders and solution providers, we run into some incredible technology. Some of the tools available to organizations…
April 24, 2024
IAMPHENOM 2024: Supporting High-Volume Hiring with Tailored Solutions
Our latest research studies on learning and hiring are separate efforts that overlap on one critical aspect: skills. I’ve heard both of those sides of…
March 18, 2024
2024 Talent Acquisition Trends Research Livestream: What to Expect
The first study our team ever began to do year over year was focused on talent acquisition. We gathered data from employers on their biggest priorities…
February 20, 2024
6+ Generative AI Applications in Talent Acquisition Today [Infographic]
Generative AI. It’s the topic in what seems like every conference agenda, presentation, and headline today. But so much of it is focused on things like…
February 6, 2024
4 Research-Backed Actions to Engage and Convert More Candidates
The data points are clear: candidate expectations today have evolved, and if you’re not staying on top of those changes, you may be missing out on the…
January 24, 2024
RPO Buyer Study: Key Findings and Preferences [New Research]
Each year we partner with the RPO Association to produce a research study to examine and understand how the recruitment process outsourcing market is…
January 22, 2024
Recruiting Automation: Employer and Candidate Preferences [Infographic]
The world of recruitment is undergoing a seismic shift, thanks in no small part to advancements in artificial intelligence and automation. Recent data…
January 16, 2024
Speed Counts in Hiring: How to Shorten Cycle Times and Increase Candidate Satisfaction [Infographic]
Today, creating a positive candidate experience is not just a nice-to-have; it’s a must-do. Recent data points from Lighthouse Research & Advisory…
January 13, 2024
Hiring Assessments: Do Employers and Candidates See Eye to Eye? [Infographic]
Updated January 2024 with new data from Q3 2023 Hiring assessments have gone through many iterations and evolutions since the days I was using them to…
January 3, 2024
2023 Recap: A Turbulent Year with Significant M&A Changes in the HR Technology Market
Our annual reporting on M&A in the HR technology space is one of our most popular pieces of content year after year (see our 2022 version here). We…
December 18, 2023
What is the Complexity Coefficient and Does it Apply to Your Organization?
In our research on high-performing organizations, the term “complexity coefficient” is one that we use to describe companies that are outliers from the…
December 4, 2023
Should You Expect Candidate Data with Your Next Recruiting Technology Purchase?
Several years back, economist and human behavioral science expert Dan Ariely ran an experiment on options and choices (one of hundreds of experiments…
December 3, 2023
First Look at 2023 Talent Acquisition Research: Pay Transparency, Ghosting, and More
Updated December 2023 with new candidate data from Q3. Of all the aspects of human capital management, talent acquisition has seen a tremendous…
November 8, 2023
Fast, Fair, and Functional: A New Look at Structured Interviews [New Research]
For talent acquisition leaders, it sometimes feels as if there is a set of opposing forces fighting for control over hiring processes: We need a…
October 31, 2023
The Next Generation of Talent Rises and Falls on Potential [New Report]
Can I be transparent for a moment? Earlier this year, the team at Plum reached out to us about writing a piece for a different audience than we…
October 26, 2023
What’s in Store for Talent Acquisition in 2024? Join Our Livestream to Find Out
The period of time over the last year or two has led to some of the most interesting (and challenging) talent acquisition swings in the market in my…
October 25, 2023
Frontline Workers are Different: Here’s How to Engage and Retain Them [New Report]
Employers across the globe have felt the challenges associated with talent shortages in recent years, and frontline employers have felt those pains…
August 28, 2023
The State of Hiring in Financial Services: What’s Now and What’s Next [Report]
Within the context of this new report, we look at some of the specific data that apply to the financial services sector based on responses from talent…
August 16, 2023
The State of Hiring: How the Manufacturing Industry is Responding [Report]
“It’s the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in more than 25 years of recruiting.” This comment is probably one you have either heard or spoken yourself in…
May 17, 2023
Critical Success Factors For Attracting and Hiring in the Modern Environment [New Report]
Hiring moves quickly. That’s true in a practical/process sense, but it’s also true from a broader trends perspective. What works today is different in…
April 20, 2023
Lighthouse Listens: 6 Innovative Talent Acquisition Technologies
As part of our ongoing research efforts, our team meets with technology providers across the HR, talent, and learning space on a regular basis. Last…
April 18, 2023
Women are 50% Less Likely to Have Visibility into Internal Career Opportunities [New Research]
Recently, the Japanese multinational Fujitsu was commended by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry for its efforts to encourage the…
March 28, 2023
IAMPHENOM 2023: Back and More Innovative than Ever
In our latest talent acquisition research study (join our upcoming livestream to be the first to see the findings), we see a dramatic growth in the…
March 6, 2023
49% of Employers with Recruitment Process Outsourcing Relationships Plan to Change this Year
In our partnership with the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA) in 2022, we jointly published a research report that examined how…
February 1, 2023
It’s HERE! My New Talent Scarcity Book is ***Free*** For a Limited Time
Over the last year as companies struggled to find good people to hire and fought at the same time to keep their best staff, I knew there had to be a…
January 9, 2023
2022 Was Another Record Year for HR Tech: See 20+ M&A Activities that Shaped the Market
Last year one of our most popular posts on the blog was a recap of some of the 2021 M&A activities across the HR Tech landscape. When you juxtapose…
December 16, 2022
What Frontline Workers Care About in 2023 [Infographic]
With all of the news focusing on layoffs and potential economic challenges, it might surprise you to hear that employers hiring frontline staff are…
November 14, 2022
3 Frontline Worker Trends: Salary, Shortage, and Support
In today’s workplace with the economy shifting and employers looking to slow hiring, we’re seeing some confusing signals. With some firms laying off…
October 21, 2022
Lever 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company For a long time, hiring was a transactional process: moving from resume to interview, interview to offer, offer to first day in the…
October 4, 2022
Recruitment Process Outsourcing: Services, Value, and Buyer Intent
This week I had the pleasure of serving as the opening keynote for the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA) annual conference, sharing…
September 28, 2022
BrightHire 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company BrightHire is the world’s leading Interview Intelligence platform. We transform the quality of hiring for high-growth companies like…
September 25, 2022
HR Tech Connect Summit 2022: A few tickets left
Over the last few years, one of my favorite events has been the HR Tech Connect Summit. This year it happens on November 16-18 in Tampa, FL. This is a…
September 21, 2022
Seekout 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company SeekOut is an AI-powered Talent 360 platform for Enterprise Talent Optimization that enables companies to quickly hire, grow, and…
August 21, 2022
HireEZ 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company HireEZ’s mission is to make outbound recruiting easy. We’re dedicated to helping recruiters proactively bring jobs to people and give…
August 10, 2022
Why Belonging is a Critical Aspect of DEI Success
[Edited with new data August 2024] Most researchers believe the annual voluntary turnover rate for U.S. employees will rise this year, with a heavy…
July 22, 2022
Reejig 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Reejig is a leading workforce intelligence platform that enables large-scale organizations to find, retain, and upskill talent at…
June 27, 2022
Predicting Pay and Skills From Job Market Intelligence Data on #HRTechTalks
In today’s world, things change and evolve so quickly. Take pay for instance. It’s changing faster than the surveys and other data sources can keep up…
June 21, 2022
PandoLogic 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company PandoLogic, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), a leader in enterprise artificial intelligence, is the…
June 20, 2022
Employers Turning to Technology to Solve Hiring Woes [New Report]
In the last 24 months, hiring has gone from a “let’s wait and see” to a highly competitive experience that is leaving employers scratching their heads…
May 18, 2022
HR Tech Awards 2022: Winners Announced
In our daily work with talent leaders and solution providers, we run into some incredible technology. Some of the tools available to organizations…
April 19, 2022
3 Reasons Candidates Ghost Employers, Plus 4 Things They Desire [Infographic]
When you are selling a house in a buyer’s market, you do all kinds of things to try to create the right atmosphere, conditions, and appeal so that you…
April 13, 2022
More Tech, More Headcount, More Budget: Early Findings from our New Talent Acquisition Research
Hiring isn’t just about talent, jobs, and skills. It’s about finding the right person to solve a business need. And when enough of those jobs are…
February 28, 2022
Conversational Recruiting: Finding Value in Conversions, Consistency, and Cost Reduction
Chatbots, also known as conversational recruiting tools, have become an essential component for the hiring technology stack at many organization. Used…
February 7, 2022
Can You Really Save 200,000 Minutes of Onboarding Time? [Webinar]
What’s your take on onboarding? Back in the day, I really enjoyed the opportunity to help new hires set up benefits, meet our team, and get their gear…
January 30, 2022
The Remote Work Gap: How to Add Flexibility in a Non-Flexible Industry or Job
This is one of the hottest conversations in the workplace, today, and no, I’m not talking about the most challenging hiring environment we’ve ever seen…
January 28, 2022
Tech Brief: iCIMS
The iCIMS Talent Cloud is a single recruiting platform that delivers transformative solutions across every stage of the talent journey, empowering…
January 12, 2022
Two Out of Three Employees Want this Talent Practice Right Now
I recently spoke for IAMHR, an event that Phenom put on, and they did a writeup of the session and some of my research. I’m reposting here because 1)…
January 7, 2022
Data Preview: The Great Resignation? Nope, It’s The Great Reprioritization (New Research)
The Great Resignation Reprioritization The video overview below, hosted by Lighthouse Research & Advisory’s Chief Research Officer Ben Eubanks, dives…
January 5, 2022
2021 Was the Biggest Year Yet for HR Tech: See 30+ of the Top M&A Activities
Last year one of our most popular posts on the blog was a recap of some of the 2020 M&A activities across the HR Tech landscape. When you juxtapose…
December 7, 2021
Mythbusting AI: A Year in the Making
Last year I had an idea. I wanted to host a session and call it “mythbusting AI” after those awesome mythbuster guys on TV. Since I was a kid, I’ve…
December 7, 2021
The Power of a Single System to Manage, Track, and Report on Employee Skills
Years ago a storm came through the town where I lived and damaged a building on my father’s property. He needed it repaired, so I volunteered for the…
November 8, 2021
New Data Show the (Surprising) Buyer Priorities for Compensation Management Systems [New Research]
Companies often spend more time managing their petty cash drawer than they do thinking about the strategic importance of their compensation systems and…
November 2, 2021
Missed Our State of Hiring Event? Get it On Demand
Last week our team put on a virtual event for 500+ HR and talent leaders called The State of Hiring in Today’s Talent Market. It was an amazing…
October 19, 2021
How Internal Mobility Solves for Risk, Cost, and More
Talent mobility can help your company tap into the trillions in GDP growth coming in the next 25 years. That’s a big claim, but the connection is real…
October 4, 2021
4 Powerful Differences in Data-Focused Talent Acquisition Teams
If I asked you to predict how long it takes to brush your teeth, how accurate would your guess be? In a scenario like that with few variables and a…
October 1, 2021
Machine Learning Allows Employers to Leverage Skill Data in Ways We Never Dreamed
In 2019, our team at Lighthouse Research & Advisory set out to determine if artificial intelligence (AI) is better than humans at some HR tasks. We…
July 10, 2021
2021 HR Tech Awards Case Study: Phenom
Read the full case study Problems The Technology Solves Candidate Experience Phenom solves candidate pain points by equipping employers with the tools…
July 5, 2021
The Candidate Experience: Perspectives on Video Interviews, Assessments, and Hiring
[Updated July 2021 with new insights] In some ways, hiring looks very similar to what it did twenty years ago. People search for positions, indicate…
June 29, 2021
Solution Provider Review: Talroo
Talroo is a data-driven job and hiring event advertising platform that helps businesses reach the candidates they need to make hires. Through AI…
June 18, 2021
Skills Power Every Talent Practice: Building Your Skills Business Case
Like many parents in the last year, I’ve spent more time with my kids’ learning materials, re-familiarizing myself with the ins and outs of…
May 27, 2021
HR Tech Awards 2021: Winners Announced
Last year, our inaugural HR Tech Awards program was a chance for technology providers to show how they serve their clients. This year, an astounding…
May 21, 2021
Solution Review: dotin
dotin Inc., through its patented intelligent SaaS-based AI platform, helps enterprises in sourcing, screening, upskilling and engaging talent in…
May 10, 2021
HR Analyst Day: April 2021 Overview
Last month our team tackled another HR Analyst Day initiative, talking with more than a dozen providers across learning, talent acquisition, HR, and…
April 6, 2021
Report: We Asked 800+ Employers about Virtual Recruiting [New Research]
This year our team is going deep on research. In a world like we’ve seen in the last 12+ months, it’s easy for all of us to feel a little bit adrift…
March 29, 2021
New Research: Virtual Hiring, Recruiter Skills, and Internal Mobility
This year our team is going deep on research. In a world like we’ve seen in the last 12+ months, it’s easy for all of us to feel a little bit adrift…
March 9, 2021
Connecting Healthcare Operations and Recruiting at Mercy on We’re Only Human
“It’s about understanding that workforce isn’t a recruiting job. It isn’t a leadership job. It’s everybody’s job. If you have needs in the workforce…
March 1, 2021
A More Holistic View for Hiring Talent: Featuring iCIMS on HR Tech Talks
Historically, hiring has been an external activity, and the tools were primarily focused on workflows and candidate intake. The modern hiring…
March 1, 2021
Job Boards and the Human Touch in Recruiting: Featuring ClearedJobs on HR Tech Talks
Putting the Human Touch into Recruiting Technology – When recruiting talent, balancing technology and the human touch is critical. Job boards aren’t…
February 25, 2021
Democratizing Recruiting Automation: Featuring GoHire on HR Tech Talks
Recruiting automation may seem like an incredibly complex topic, but it doesn’t have to be. Since 2016 when GoHire launched its first recruiting…
February 12, 2021
20+ High Impact HR Technology Acquisitions, Mergers, and More from 2020
In 2020, in spite of the pandemic-related shutdowns and other business impacts, the HR technology industry was within a few M&A deals of the 2019…
February 3, 2021
HR Tech Awards 2020 Case Study: Phenom
Click here to download the full case study. Problems The Technology Solves The Phenom TXM platform focuses on personalizing and automating the four…
February 1, 2021
3 Simple Secrets to Better Employee Experience: A PayPal Case Study
In the last couple of years, “employee experience” has become this ubiquitous term that is a catch all for pretty much everything related to employees…
January 25, 2021
HR Tech Awards 2020 Case Study: HiringSolved
Click here to download the full case study. Problems The Technology Solves 40-60% of known candidates for open jobs already exist in internal talent…
January 7, 2021
7 HCM Trends for 2021: Prioritizing People-Centric HR
2020 is going to be the year that the world never forgets, but in a swirling pool of chaos there are some important components that we can’t miss…
January 7, 2021
Drive Engagement by Supporting Your Workforce, a Conversation with Kronos
Kronos is a world leader in HR and workforce management technology. In this episode of HR Tech Talks, Ben discusses how Kronos serves its customers…
January 7, 2021
Go Beyond Resumes to Pick the Best Candidates: Aptology On HR Tech Talks
Since the beginning of time, organizations have tried to match resumes with job descriptions to find the best candidates. The problems with that…
January 7, 2021
We’re Only Human 77: Implementing The Agile Talent Acquisition Methodology At BBVA
Agile talent acquisition? What’s that? Many of the talent leaders we encounter have heard of agile as it pertains to the software development industry…
January 5, 2021
Leveraging Skills as a Hiring Tool: Presenting Eightfold on HR Tech Talks
Look at a resume, guess at someone’s abilities, and put them in a pile. That’s how recruiters have always looked at resumes and hiring. But AI allows…
January 5, 2021
Onboarding in a Remote World: How to Prioritize Employee Experience with Enboarder
Interestingly, in the last five years every employer that we’ve talked to about onboarding is interested in tweaking or changing their approach to lead…
January 5, 2021
Rethinking the Job Ad: A Discussion with Cliquify on HR Tech Talks
Job ads look pretty much the same as they always have. In fact, moving to a more digital environment may have even increased their length, because…
January 5, 2021
Talent Acquisition Insights from Phenom on HR Tech Talks
The world of hiring is very different from what it was a year ago. Yet one thing remains constant: it’s about connecting people with opportunities that…
January 4, 2021
Virtual Recruiting (What Works and What Doesn’t): Featuring Yello on HR Tech Talks
2020 has been a roller coaster for most firms and for the economy as a whole. Unemployment swelled to 20 million people and has already fallen to 12…
December 31, 2020
Automating and Personalizing Hiring: Featuring Phenom on HR Tech Talks
The world of hiring is very different from what it was a year ago. Yet one thing remains constant: it’s about connecting people with opportunities that…
December 31, 2020
Case Study: Early Talent Hiring with Yello
The following case study features Yello, a recruiting technology firm that focuses on early talent and college recruiting through a combination of…
November 5, 2020
HR Analyst Day 2020: Final Day and Closing Thoughts
If you missed it, check out what happened during HR Analyst Day: Day One and Day Two. This week I am partnering with Jessica Miller-Merrell of…
November 3, 2020
HR Analyst Day: Day Two Recap (File Management, Talent Development, and More)
If you missed it, check out what happened during HR Analyst Day: Day One. Also see the final day wrap up and insights here: HR Analyst Day 2020 closing…
November 2, 2020
HR Analyst Day: Day One Recap (AI, Virtual Hiring, and More)
This week I am partnering with Jessica Miller-Merrell of Workology on HR Analyst Day, which is a bit of a misnomer because it’s actually running most…
October 12, 2020
Join Us October 22nd for the Next HR Tech Roundtable
This year has been, in the words of a good friend, a “dumpster fire.” So many things have gone wrong, yet the changing environment has led to some new…
September 30, 2020
What the Phenom Acquisition of My Ally Signifies for Automation in Recruiting
My Ally is a recruiting chatbot tool that schedules 20,000 interviews a month. Phenom offers a talent experience platform and serves hundreds of…
August 14, 2020
HR Tech Award Winners 2020 Announced
This has been a year unlike any other, but one thing that has been steadfast in the last few months is the support that the HR technology industry is…
August 10, 2020
What 10+ Studies Say About the COVID and Post-COVID Workplace
Over the last two months our team has been talking with different technology firms and business leaders about what’s happening and what is next. The…
July 23, 2020
Engaging and Developing your Remote Workforce: Winning the Productivity Game [HR Tech Roundtable]
Recently I wrote about a new series of events we’re supporting called the HR Tech Roundtable. We have another coming up and I’d like to personally…
May 29, 2020
HR Tech Roundtable: A New Virtual Event for HR and Talent Executives
In the book Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi talks about the power of building powerful personal and professional networks: one person, one…
April 14, 2020
Job Posting Volume Down, Industry Impacts, and Recession Preparation: An RPO Perspective
One of the areas of focus for us at Lighthouse this year is recruitment process outsourcing, or RPO. This service component of HR outsourcing has…
March 20, 2020
#HRTech Companies Offering Free Resources and Information During COVID-19 Crisis
Note: updated 4/20/20 at 7:00am CST with additional resources (24th update since publication on 3/20/20) Our team has been careful in recent days to…
March 5, 2020
Insights from Hilton, Merck, and Unisys Talent Leaders and More at #IAMPHENOM20
This week i was able to spend some time in Philadelphia with the Phenom People team at IAMPHENOM with 1,000 recruiters and talent leaders, and between…
February 24, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Reskilling (Including Some Surprising Stats)
When a firm has 250,000 global employees, it’s easy to become comfortable with how things operate. However, that’s when things usually end up going…
February 18, 2020
Insights from Cox Enterprises, Emerson Electric, Delta Airlines, and More [Podcast]
When I started writing nearly 11 years ago, I never imagined it would become the tool to reach the large audiences that it is today. Some of that…
February 10, 2020
The Shift from Candidate Experience to Retention and Diversity as Hiring Priorities
Over the last year, a significant shift has happened in how employers look at talent. There have always been forward thinking organizations that…
January 28, 2020
20+ HR Technology Acquisitions, Mergers, and More from 2019
In 2019 there were dozens of mergers and acquisitions in the world of HR technology. This represents a vibrant industry full of continuous innovation…
January 6, 2020
Announcing the HR Tech Awards Powered by Lighthouse Research & Advisory
We are announcing our new HR Tech Awards program and are excited about how it will impact the industry and support the HR tech buyer community. Learn…
October 11, 2019
HR Technology Conference 2019: AI Grows Up, The Data Play, and More #HRTechConf
This fall has been incredible with plenty of travel across the globe, and the coming weeks promise more of the same. One of the events that I…
September 4, 2019
10 Reasons Humans are Terrible at Hiring (and How AI Can Help)
Last year, Amazon shuttered an algorithm the team was developing because it realized it was biased. The algorithm was developed by the company’s…
August 11, 2019
Talent Acquisition Chatbots: Providers, Metrics and Everything You Need to Know [New Research]
We have heard so much about chatbots in the last few years, but what can they really do, and do they really add value? In this new report from our…
July 9, 2019
Just What is “Advisory” Anyway? How We Work with Clients
Recently we’ve been getting more requests for help from a broad variety of employers and vendors in the industry. They have typically seen our research…
June 4, 2019
13+ HR Case Studies: Analytics, Culture, Learning, Recruiting, Technology, and More
As someone who has worked in the HR profession, I know well the full value of stories, examples, and case studies. At the end of the day, practitioners…
May 21, 2019
Breaking News: Insights on the Montage Talent and Shaker International Merger
Lots of HR technology news happens daily, and I don’t always write about it. However, the news today that Montage (@montagetalent) and Shaker…
May 7, 2019
The Gravitational Pull of Suite vs the Innovation of Best of Breed
It never fails. Almost every time I speak to audiences about talent, technology, AI, or another related topic, I get a question very similar to this…
March 5, 2019
How AI Can Positively Influence Diversity and Inclusion
Last month news broke that an AI-powered facial recognition technology used by law enforcement was actually biased against, well, pretty much everyone…
February 18, 2019
4 Types of Interviewing Technology to Enhance the Candidate Experience
Choosing the Right Talent It’s important to create a great candidate experience, because first impressions mean everything. Assessments, interviews…
February 13, 2019
Onboarding Technologies: What They Can Do For You?
Onboarding is a period of time that varies by company but provides new employees with the necessary information and training to be successful in their…
February 5, 2019
New Research on Diversity and Inclusion Technology [Podcast]
(Subscribers click through to check out this episode) Our team has been researching diversity and inclusion with a specific look at how training can…
January 28, 2019
Companies Lose 25% of New Hires a Year: How Onboarding Can Save Your Business
The process of onboarding is one of the most critical stages of the hiring process and costs an estimated $400 per person. It is the time that goals…
January 15, 2019
Artificial Intelligence for HR: The Book is Live! (#AI for #HR)
Over the winter holidays you might have missed the fanfare, but the new book, Artificial Intelligence for HR, is now available! We will not be pushing…
December 17, 2018
AI Concepts: What is Moravec’s Paradox and Why Should You Care?
In the 1980s, Hans Moravec and other AI researchers discovered a curious finding that we now know as Moravec’s Paradox. Essentially, AI can very easily…
December 7, 2018
Do We Really Need a Certification in Talent Acquisition?
Imagine graduating from school with a degree in marketing only to find out that a significant portion of what you know is already outdated or…
November 20, 2018
2019 HCM Trends: Market Size, Investment Priorities, and More
As we edge closer and closer to 2019, I’m receiving more and more questions from employers and vendors in the community about what trends I’m seeing…
November 1, 2018
Algorithms, Bias, and Decision-Making: Podcast Insights from IBM Leaders
To prevent biased algorithms you need to make sure you have unbiased training data on hand. You also need algorithms to be developed by a diverse set…
September 20, 2018
Using Technology to Level Up Recruiting
My first love as an HR pro was recruiting. Within my first two or three weeks on the job my boss gave me my first recruiting assignment: find a UH-60…
May 23, 2018
20+ Onboarding Hacks to Improve the Employee Experience [Free Report]
One of the talent areas that most businesses can improve is onboarding. In some cases the experience is poor, but even for those doing a good job, it’s…
April 17, 2018
A Video Primer on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on HR
When the Industrial Revolution waned and knowledge workers became more common, what kinds of skills set apart the great employees from the not-so-great…
April 11, 2018
4 Millennial Myths that Should Not Impact Your Talent Strategy
While there is a growing number of publications on generational differences, much is incorrect or misleading. Typically information falls into one of…
April 4, 2018
Nearly Half of 2017 HR Tech Funding Events went to AI-Focused Companies
This year I’ll be releasing my new book, Artificial Intelligence for HR, focusing on how AI can enable HR to be more human, not less. This post…
February 26, 2018
Hackathons Solve for HCM Issues: Learning, Recruiting, Retention [Case Study]
“This message will appeal to people in our recruiting process who gravitate towards a culture of hackathons and innovation. It will also turn away…
February 20, 2018
3 Differences Between Great and Mediocre Recruiting Video
In the third and final installment in this series, we explore the difference between great and mediocre recruiting video content. The subject of the…
January 30, 2018
HR Tech Vendor Demo Makeovers: A Conversation with George LaRocque
If you didn’t already know it, one of the information channels we provide at Lighthouse is a podcast called We’re Only Human. The focus of the…
January 24, 2018
3 Tips on How to Improve Talent Acquisition Video Performance [Video]
In part two of this three part series, we are exploring how to improve the performance of video in the recruiting process. If our true goal is to…
January 11, 2018
Recruiting Research: 3 Key Points in 3 Minutes [Video]
Recently we at Lighthouse have published two separate pieces focusing on some groundbreaking video recruiting research we performed. Those items can be…
January 8, 2018
The Impact of Algorithm Bias on Human Resources Practices
Diversity has always been a hot topic in the HR profession, but it has exploded into national news with all of the announcements and discoveries of…
December 18, 2017
The ROI of Video in the Candidate Experience
What’s the ROI of video? While it seems like a challenging question to answer, I’ll start you off with two scenarios: Your talent acquisition team…
November 6, 2017
The Videos Job Candidates Actually Want to See (Not Your Branding Video) [New Research]
Candidate experience is on everyone’s lips these days, but the discussion is rare when companies actually ask candidates what they want and attempt to…
October 16, 2017
4 Research-Based Insights: What Candidates Want from Video Interviews
In some ways, hiring looks very similar to what it did twenty years ago. People search for positions, indicate interest, and are filtered down until…
October 9, 2017
Today’s Top Talent Acquisition Priorities [Free eBook]
Earlier this summer we published a graphic detailing some of the top priorities for talent acquisition leaders this year. We received so much positive…
August 30, 2017
7 Examples of Artificial Intelligence in Talent Acquisition Technology
[Update 2019: The book is now live and is receiving rave reviews! Check it out here.] Over the past month I’ve been working with a variety of vendors…
May 3, 2017
Employee Retention: Tomorrow’s Recruiting Metric
As HR is increasing its presence as a strategic part of the business, key performance indicators, or KPIs, are becoming a key part of the language for…
April 12, 2017
Diversity Sourcing Strategy: 3 Tactics of Highly Diverse Companies
In my last blog, I wrote about the importance of diversity and inclusion, the relationship between diversity and business performance, and some best…
March 7, 2017
Developing a Talent Analytics Function: Build, Buy, or Borrow
I’m currently in the midst of a research project examining how some of the best and brightest companies in the world hire people analytics talent. This…
February 22, 2017
2017 Talent Acquisition Priorities (High and Low)
Each year brings new opportunities and priorities for HR and talent leaders. This year we began the inaugural Global Talent Acquisition Sentiment…
January 25, 2017
2017 Talent Acquisition Sentiment Study
There are a lot of moving parts in the world of talent acquisition. Our research at Lighthouse has shown us that many leaders know what they need to…
October 17, 2016
The Gig Economy Impact on Talent Decisions
I was somewhat nervous. See, a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to deliver my first ever Ignite-style presentation. In short, you get five minutes…
October 12, 2016
Hiring In the Age of Disruption: Key Trends Business Leaders Need to Know
Following is a guest post developed for the team at KellyOCG around some of the key disruptive trends I’m following. Hope you enjoy! There is more…
October 11, 2016
Fractured, Fragmented, and Fragile: Building Your Technology Stack
An interesting conversation with a friend working in a key HR role for a 20,000-plus employee firm recently has had me thinking a lot about the…
September 26, 2016
Trending: Vendors Drinking Their Own Champagne
I’ve talked to several technology companies in the last few weeks that are drinking their own champagne, and it’s one of the most interesting “meta”…
September 12, 2016
Disruption–The Biggest Concern for CHROs and Talent Leaders
CHROs, like other CxOs, recognize that the barriers between previously separate industries are collapsing, as companies in one sector apply their…
August 15, 2016
How to Use Recruiting Funnel Metrics for Talent Forecasting
You’ve heard me talk about some of the trends in recruiting measurement recently, and today we’re going to continue the conversation. However, I’m…
August 8, 2016
Recruiting Effectiveness: Quality vs Quality of Candidates
While interviewing a talent acquisition leader for an upcoming podcast, I realized that part of our conversation was a direct tie-in to other…
August 4, 2016
Using Source of Hire Data to Validate Talent Acquisition Efforts
What if you had a way to not only see what sources your candidates were coming from, but which ones delivered you the best people that you ended up…
July 29, 2016
3 Trends Impacting Talent Acquisition Measurement
Note: I have an upcoming report detailing these issues in more detail and would love to send it to you. Just sign up here to receive your own copy of…
July 20, 2016
Building a Business Case for HCM Technology
Talent leaders that are attempting to select, purchase, and implement HCM technology are often challenged by a lack of experience with the process of…
July 5, 2016
Defining Talent Acquisition Measurement Priorities and KPIs
In our recent Modern Measures of Talent Acquisition study, we asked talent leaders what their most critical priorities are when it comes to measuring…
June 27, 2016
Delivering a High-Quality Employee Experience
As I traveled home from yet another conference last week, I reflected back on the many conversations I had with talent leaders and vendors and how they…
June 17, 2016
Building a Skills-Based Organization
I’ve had numerous conversations in the past week about skills in the workplace and their impact on how work gets done (or doesn’t get done). From a…
June 13, 2016
How to Measure Candidate Experience Metrics
Candidate experience matters. Despite companies saying it is increasingly difficult to find and hire quality candidates, many of them are not measuring…
November 10, 2015
Legacy HCM Systems Beware: The Talent Acquisition Platform Cometh
Is there a single system in the world of HCM that’s more widely hated than the applicant tracking system? According to Key Interval’s Optimal HR Tech…