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Alliant Insurance Services Welcomes Kristin Searcy to Southeast Benefits Team

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Veteran workforce strategist brings more than two decades of experience helping organizations solve complex challenges Alliant Insurance Services  has hired Kristin Searcy as Senior Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group, expanding the firm’s strategic advisory capabilities across the Southeast and beyond. With a career spanning more than 20 years, Searcy has partnered with executives and organizations nationwide to design solutions that drive clarity, efficiency, and meaningful impact for their people. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI ”Kristin is a rare blend of strategist, connector, and catalyst who provides transformative solutions to her clients amid a complex business landscape,” said Kevin Overbey, President, Alliant Employee Benefits. “Her diverse experience and deep connections will provide a powerful strategic advantage to clients from a range of industries.” Since 2002...
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Indeed’s AI-Powered Sourcing Assistant Helps Employers Hire Over 30% Faster

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New Feature Saved Employers Seven Hours Per Week and Surfaced Applicants 2.9x More Likely To Be Hired Indeed , the world’s #1 job site 1 and a leading hiring platform, introduced Sourcing Assistant, an AI-powered feature that finds, engages, and delivers quality applicants faster for stronger hiring outcomes. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI The new feature launches as talent acquisition teams face surging application volumes with stretched resources. According to a new Indeed and Harris Poll survey 2 , 71% of hiring managers say higher volume has made it harder to find qualified candidates, while 93% say they have lost top talent because the hiring process simply took too long. The survey also found: 72% of hiring managers say they fear they’re missing out on top talent due to the high volume of applications they must review. 81% say they believe retention is higher among proactively so...
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HiringThing Launches AI Candidate Ranking to Cut Time-to-Hire

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New features and plan options give employers of every size the ability to move faster on top candidates. HiringThing, the leading white label applicant tracking system (ATS), today announced the launch of the next generation of their platform, featuring a Visual Candidate Pipeline, AI Candidate Ranking, and Workflow Management, alongside two new plan tiers: Essential and Pro. The launch comes as employers face a paradox in today’s labor market: job openings remain plentiful, yet average time-to-fill has stayed above 30 days. At the same time, high-volume roles routinely attract hundreds of applications that hiring teams cannot review fast enough. “Most of the employers we work with aren’t struggling to post jobs. They’re struggling to move fast enough once applications come in,” says Colette Luke, VP of Product. “We built this platform so that the best candidate isn’t lost because no one got to their resume in time.” HiringThing...
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Emapta Named a Top Asian Inspiring Workplace for 2026

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The global dedicated staffing leader is recognized for its people-first culture, employee experience and commitment to building AI-ready global teams Emapta, a global leader in offshore AI-ready dedicated staffing and workforce advisory services, announced it has been named one of the 2026 Top 15 Asian Inspiring Workplaces by Inspiring Workplaces Group. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI The Inspiring Workplaces Awards recognize organizations that create cultures where people feel valued, included, and empowered to thrive. Winners are evaluated through a rigorous submission and independent judging process across six key elements: culture and purpose, leadership, wellbeing, inclusion and belonging, employee voice and employee experience. Emapta was recognized for its commitment to building a people-first culture that supports employee experience, business performance and long-term workforce r...
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AI-Mediated Negotiations: Balancing the Power Dynamic in Salary Discussions

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Employees are entering salary conversations with their own negotiation AI, salary benchmarks, role-play scripts, and counteroffer logic. This changes the room because candidates now arrive with stronger preparation, sharper language, and a clearer sense of market value. For employers, AI Salary Negotiation is no longer a worker-side trend to ignore. It is becoming a compensation governance issue, in which pay ranges, internal equity, market data, manager training, and offer decisions must hold up to greater employee scrutiny. What is driving worker-facing negotiation assistants? Employees use AI because salary conversations often feel uneven. The employer has pay bands, market surveys, budget context, and negotiation practice, while many workers enter the discussion with less information. AI tools can role-play difficult conversations, draft counteroffers, compare market signals, and help employees explain their value. Recent reporting shows job seekers use AI role-play for salary ...
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Ayar Labs Appoints Sejal Patel Daswani as Chief People and Operations Officer

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High impact operations, people, and innovation executive joins team to scale company globally, build foundation for long-term growth Ayar Labs, the leader in co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions for AI scale-up, announced the appointment of Sejal Patel Daswani as Chief People and Operations Officer. In this newly created role, Daswani will oversee Ayar Labs’ people strategy as well as operations as the company continues to expand globally and advance its technology to meet hyperscaler deployment requirements. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Daswani brings more than 20 years of leadership experience across people, operations and corporate innovation in the technology, cleantech and software industries. She has led large-scale global growth initiatives, built high-performing teams and supported companies through major operational inflection points. At Ayar Labs, Daswani will focus on buildin...
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Greenhouse Launches New AI Capabilities Built to Strengthen Structured Hiring, Not Shortcut It

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Six new features span role setup, interview note-taking, candidate insights, analytics, and the Greenhouse MCP, built to reduce manual work, sharpen signal, and keep humans in control of every hiring decision Greenhouse , the leading hiring platform, announced a new wave of AI capabilities rolling out across the hiring workflow this summer. The release spans six features covering role setup, interview note-taking, candidate insights, analytics, and the Greenhouse MCP, each built to reduce manual work and sharpen the signal hiring teams use to make decisions. AI has changed what hiring teams are up against. Applications are up 412% since 2023, while open roles have stayed roughly flat. Resumes are polished into sameness, interview answers are rehearsed, and pipelines are crowded with candidates who look right on paper but aren’t in reality. Hiring teams are expected to make confident, defensible decisions quickly, yet the tools meant to support those decisions have not kept up. N...
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