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456 articles of analyst commentary since 2016, across HR technology, talent acquisition, learning, performance, and the frontline workforce. New every week.

HR Strategy

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 4, 2023

Talent Acquisition

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…

December 3, 2023

HR Technology

Trusaic 2023 HR Tech Awards Case Study

About the Company Trusaic is a workplace equity technology company committed to advancing social good by helping organizations achieve pay equity…

November 26, 2023

Talent Acquisition

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…

November 8, 2023

HR Technology

SmartRank 2023 HR Tech Awards Case Study

About the Company SmartRank is a Non-Traditional Productivity-ATS that completely automates the job applicant screening process, stack-ranks and…

November 2, 2023

HR Strategy

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 31, 2023

Talent Acquisition

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 26, 2023

HR Strategy

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…

October 25, 2023

HR Strategy

isolved HCM Connect Conference: Serious Growth, Aggressive Roadmap, and a Critical AI Strategy

This week I spent time in beautiful Palm Springs at the isolved Connect user conference. If you’re not familiar with the name, isolved HCM’s hot pink…

October 19, 2023

HR Strategy

Ceridian Rebrands to Dayforce, Launches Range of New Features and Strategic Efforts

Fall for analysts like us in the HR technology space equates to travel season, with industry conferences and technology user conferences happening on a…

October 4, 2023

HR Strategy

2023 Compensation Data and Technology Buyer’s Guide and Landscape Report [New Research]

Every other year our team takes a deep dive into the world of compensation. We look at all of the top technology providers. We gather data from a wide…

October 1, 2023

HR Strategy

7 Compensation Practices of High-Performing Organizations [New Research]

Over the last few months we’ve been working on our 2023 Compensation Data and Technology Trends research that we update every two years. In this year’s…

September 11, 2023

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