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HireRight, a leading provider of global background screening services and workforce solutions, announced the promotion of Jamie Ikerd to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), effective immediately. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Bernard Barbour, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Skillsoft “Jamie brings a rare combination of strategic vision, operational leadership, and deep customer insight,” said HireRight President and CEO, Euan Menzies. In this role, Ikerd will lead HireRight’s global revenue organization, bringing together sales, account management, customer experience, revenue operations, professional services, strategic alliances, and marketing to create a unified, customer-centric commercial engine. Ikerd previously served as HireRight’s Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, where she helped shape enterprise strategy and led cross-functional initiatives that supported the company’s record commercial performance in 2025, positioning HireRight for...

In a landscape where workplace recognition has become a strategic lever for retention and performance, Accolad announces the launch of a new approach to its recognition gift catalog, designed to maximize employee engagement and modernize HR programs. A Direct Response to Professional Recognition Challenges According to several studies in human resources management, a lack of professional recognition remains one of the primary factors for disengagement. Peer-to-peer recognition and appreciation from leadership have become essential to maintaining a healthy organizational climate. “Companies are still investing in generic gifts that have no real impact on motivation. Recognition must be personalized, immediate, and relevant,” explains Marc-Antoine Perron. For him, a simple gesture must be accompanied by a genuine professional recognition message to have a lasting impact. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Bernard Barbo...

Pioneering Engineering Leader Joins to Drive Product Development & Lead Rippling’s Largest Engineering Hub Outside San Francisco Rippling, a leading workforce management company valued at $16.8 billion, announced the appointment of Sonia Parandekar as Senior Vice President of Engineering and head of its Bengaluru site, a critical hub powering Rippling’s global product expansion. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Bernard Barbour, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Skillsoft As we continue to expand the platform, we need leaders who can operate with both speed and precision. Sonia brings exactly that. As Rippling scales its unified platform across HR, IT, and finance, the company is investing heavily in world-class engineering leadership to accelerate product development and deepen its global footprint. Bengaluru has become central to that strategy, now serving as Rippling’s largest engineering presence outside of San Francisco and a key driver o...

Jeet Mukerji, CEO at Kinfolk, shares more about the platform’s recent funding and what’s making waves in modern HRtech in this Q&A with HRTech Series:   _________ Hi Jeet take us through the story and journey behind Kinfolk and tell us about your recent funding? My co-founder Kim and I never set out to start an “HR tech” company. We were just interested in answering: “how do you help people do their best work, and remove the day-to-day friction that gets in the way. Every company has it. Leave requests, payroll questions, policy lookups, access issues, employment letters, updating information. Small things individually, but constant, and it really adds up as a company grows. We started noticing this pattern when we were both managers ourselves. The same kinds of questions and operational tasks kept surfacing. And when we spoke to HR leaders, we heard the same thing again and again: huge amounts of time going into coordination work – preventing that team from doing what th...

Businesses are increasingly exploring international hiring, including Filipino virtual assistants for remote roles The continued expansion of remote work is influencing how businesses build and manage their teams. As companies adapt to distributed and hybrid work environments, many are looking beyond local markets to access talent with the skills and experience needed to support daily operations. One area seeing consistent growth is the hiring of Filipino virtual assistants. Businesses across industries are increasingly working with professionals based in the Philippines for roles such as administrative support, customer service, marketing assistance, and other remote functions. The Philippines has long been recognized as a major contributor to the global remote workforce. A combination of strong English proficiency, familiarity with Western business practices, and a well-established outsourcing industry has positioned the country as a reliable source of remote talent. Catch more ...

Cookiy AI launched a suite of user research tools (Cookiy Skill, CLI, and MCP Server) that enable any AI platform to reach real people directly and run qualitative and quantitative research, creating what it calls the “human layer,” a new layer in the AI stack that gives software direct access to human opinions, experiences, and decision-making. Until now, AI could search the internet, read documents, and analyze datasets, but it could not ask people what they actually think. Cookiy changes that. For the first time, a user can type a question into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor and instantly turn it into a live research program, recruiting real participants, running AI-moderated interviews or surveys, and returning structured human insight in hours. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Bernard Barbour, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Skillsoft Any AI. Any Human. Any Topic. Traditionally, only trained researchers with significant budgets could design studies,...