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The Standard Expands Pooled Employer Plan Capabilities with New 403(b) PEP for Nonprofit Organizations

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Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) announced the expansion of its pooled employer plan (PEP) capabilities with the introduction of an ERISA 403(b) PEP for nonprofit organizations. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “Nonprofit employers often face greater time, staffing and resource constraints than private-sector organizations, and the pressure to manage benefits costs continues to grow,” said Steve Chappell, AVP of Retirement Plan sales at The Standard. With the launch of the new PEP, The Standard extends its 401(k) PEP leadership and expertise into the 403(b) market, giving nonprofit employers a pooled plan option that can help expand retirement plan access to this underserved sector. “Nonprofit employers often face greater time, staffing and resource constraints than private-sector organizations, and the pressure to manage benefits costs continues to grow,” said Steve Chappell, assistant vice president of Ret...
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AI Hiring Audit Trails: Why HR Teams Need Evidence for Every Automated Screening Decision

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AI hiring tools require proper paperwork as screening decisions affect opportunity, reputation, and compliance exposure. A ranked shortlist, rejected profile, or automated score can shape who gets seen by a recruiter. That makes AI hiring audit trails a core HR control, not a back-office record. You need evidence that shows which data shaped each recommendation, how humans reviewed it, and why the final decision made sense. Hiring AI needs evidence at every step. Why should AI hiring audit trails become part of every automated screening workflow? AI hiring audit trails help HR teams explain how an automated screening result was created. They integrate candidate data, job criteria, model output, and human review into a single decision record. This matters because hiring decisions need more than efficiency. You must know whether the tool used relevant job information, whether recruiters followed review rules, and whether candidate outcomes show unfair patterns. Without that record, H...
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The Black Hole of Hiring: Study Reveals 50% of Job Seekers Receive Automated Rejections Without a Word from Recruiters

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New data reveals 50% of job seekers face silent rejections, while over 80% encounter an AI disclosure void that fuels widespread hiring mistrust. A study from Enhancv, a global leader in AI-powered career tools, exposes a profound trust gap on the receiving end of modern hiring technology. According to a survey of 1,066 U.S. job seekers, automated recruitment tools are leaving candidates in the dark, with 50.5% of applicants receiving at least one job rejection in the past year without a single word of explanation or feedback from a human recruiter. When half of all job seekers are rejected without human contact, and over 80% have no idea if a person or an algorithm read their resume, trust in the hiring system breaks down completely.” — Volen Vulkov, Co-Founder of Enhancv The findings highlight a fundamental disconnect between corporate automation and candidate trust. While employers adopt artificial intelligence tools to handle mounting applicant volumes, job seekers are incre...
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LaborIQ® Software Announces Next-Generation Compensation Analytics Solution

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Platform Expands Their HR Tech Software Arsenal, Assisting Organizations with Real-Time Views of Pay Alignment, Retention Risks, and Budget Impacts LaborIQ , announced the launch of  Pay Analysis , an expansion to the company’s compensation solution portfolio, and designed to help organizations with defensible pay strategies and complete pay visibility. Built for HR teams and business leaders, LaborIQ’s Pay Analysis combines internal workforce pay data with LaborIQ’s compensation benchmarks to provide a centralized view of how employees, departments, locations, and their pay, align to market and to organizational compensation strategy. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ The launch reflects growing pressure on organizations to make budget-minded, fair, and more defensible compensation decisions amid ongoing labor market volatility. “Compensation is strategic and has become more complex in recent ye...
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Serval Launches Program to Transform Employees Into Future Founders

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Serval Start Challenges Traditional Career Paths and Retention Strategies for Startups Serval , the employee service management company built for the AI era, closed its recruitment for the first cohort of Serval Start. The first-of-its-kind program, built to identify, develop, and back the next generation of artificial intelligence-native founders, secured its first cohort of 12 from over 500 applications. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ As AI uproots what a typical career path looks like, traditional, pre-defined roles are breaking down. Serval Start introduces a new talent model that recruits high-potential technical builders, embeds them within a fast-scaling company, and equips them with the network, capital exposure, and hands-on knowledge to launch their own companies in the future. Rather than treating aspiring founders as a retention risk, Serval is betting that the most sustainable way to attract exception...
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ZipRecruiter Appoints Carmen Chan as Chief Financial Officer

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Veteran finance and technology leader brings leadership experience from Barclays, Noom, and Goldman Sachs to ZipRecruiter ZipRecruiter , a leading online employment marketplace, announced the appointment of Carmen Chan as Chief Financial Officer, effective August 17, 2026. Ms. Chan will oversee the company’s Accounting and Finance organizations and help drive ZipRecruiter’s long-term financial strategy, operational excellence, and value creation initiatives. As of the date that Ms. Chan assumes the CFO role, Dave Travers will continue his role as President of ZipRecruiter, but will no longer serve as the interim Chief Financial Officer. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “Carmen is a proven finance leader with deep expertise in technology, capital markets, and investor relations,” said Ian Siegel, CEO of ZipRecruiter. “Her experience helping leading technology companies grow and her strong relationships wi...
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We’ve Been Solving The Wrong Problem

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Why financial wellness programs fail, and what financial health actually requires. A while back I was in a Dollar Tree in Beaufort with my ten-year-old son, looking for safety pins. A woman who worked there was outside on her phone when we walked in, upset, talking about CashApp and “not having it right now” and how “even Friday might be a problem.” Inside, she rang us up and was short with me, the way people are when they are carrying something heavy. In the car, my son asked why she was so “mean” to us. I told him the truth. She was not mean. She was doing math in her head. Math about Friday. I think about her a lot. Because here’s the thing: she is somebody’s employee. And there are millions just like her. For years, our answer to that woman has been “financial wellness.” We have spent billions on it. And I have come to believe we picked the wrong word. Worse, the wrong word led us to build the wrong thing. Think about...
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