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New suite helps employers detect and stop sophisticated hiring fraud with continuous identity and fraud signals across the hiring lifecycle Checkr , the AI-powered verification platform for high-stakes decisions, launched its Fraud Detection Suite as hiring fraud becomes one of the fastest-growing threats facing businesses today. Built on more than a decade of identity verification expertise, Checkr’s fraud solution helps employers detect and prevent fraud at every stage of the hiring process, from the initial application and interview through post-hire reverifications. Hiring fraud is no longer limited to falsified resumes or credentials. Bad actors can now impersonate real people across multiple stages of the hiring process, exposing the limitations of point-in-time checks that only verify credentials in a single moment. The FBI has warned that North Korean IT workers are using stolen identities and other techniques to obtain employment with U.S. organizations, and the Departm...

For decades, employees have been using dedicated channels to interact with HR: visiting an HR desk, filling out forms, opening employee portals, searching policy libraries, submitting service requests, or using increasingly sophisticated HR applications. Much of this friction was relieved by digital HR technology that moved employee records, payroll, benefits, leave, learning, and other services to self-service platforms. But even today’s HR technologies are still based on a simple premise: employees must actively use HR technology. That may be changing. The emerging concept of zero-consumption HRtech imagines an HR environment where employees can receive relevant HR services without opening, navigating, or even thinking about the underlying HR platform. Rather than employees having to look up a policy, submit a request or find the right HR app, intelligent systems could guide employees right inside the tools and workflows they already use. That doesn’t necessarily mean HR technolog...

New hub to leverage Denver’s deep pool of tech talent as company expands CloudBees, which helps enterprises build, run and govern software factories in the agentic coding era, today announced the opening of its new office in downtown Denver, creating a hiring hub for engineering, product and go-to-market roles. The office opening is part of CEO Moritz Plassnig’s strategy to grow CloudBees in tech hubs globally as it helps enterprises navigate a new era of software development. Denver’s tech workforce is projected to grow by 2.2% in 2026, adding nearly 3,500 net tech jobs, according to CompTIA’s 2026 State of the Tech Workforce report, a growth rate that ranks among the top 10 metro areas in the country. Colorado also ranks 4th nationally for the concentration of tech workers in its overall workforce. The Denver metro area is home to prominent hubs for major technology companies, including Salesforce, Oracle, Datadog, and Gusto. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Intervi...

Company expands beyond AI roleplays with five capabilities that help organizations upskill their workforce for the AI future. Yoodli announced its expansion from AI roleplays into the AI Platform for Human Skills. As enterprises race to use AI to do more with fewer people, Yoodli is betting the other way: helping organizations upskill their workforce for the AI future. The expansion comes from how customers already use Yoodli. More than 1 million learners and organizations like Google, LHH, Databricks, Snowflake, and Sandler use Yoodli to onboard new employees, train people on AI tools, run certifications and put a coach inside their workflow. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ The platform brings together five capabilities: Yoodli Roleplays: the hyper-realistic roleplays customers know, for learning and practicing concepts, with tutoring and grading against custom rubrics. Yoodli Personas: enterprise-ready AI experts,...

New suite confirms every candidate is who they say they are and did the work themselves, with one automatic verdict in place of dozens of manual flags Vervoe , a skills assessment platform, today announced Vervoe Verified, a new suite of trust and integrity capabilities that tells employers, automatically, whether a candidate is real and whether they completed their assessment honestly. AI has made it easy to fake who you are and what you can do. That puts every hiring decision at risk. Every candidate who moves forward is real, verified and did the work themselves.” — David Weinberg, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Vervoe Generative AI has created a trust crisis in hiring The same AI tools that help candidates write a resume now let them fake an identity, hand an assessment to a bot, or have someone else take the test for them. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide will be fake. In a Gartner survey of 3,000 job seekers, 6% admitted to interview...

AI technology now offers HR professionals a powerful set of tools to streamline internal functions, make data-driven decisions, and improve employee experience. With AI being embedded across every area of HR and HRTech, it is still crucial to strengthen the fundamentals around agentic AI and its growing use. Dave Hilton, CPO at O.C. Tanner weighs in: ___________ Take us through some of O.C Tanner’s most recent AI enhancements and other integrations that make using the tool a more seamless journey for end users? At O.C. Tanner, we’ve been very intentional about making recognition part of the way people work, rather than another task they have to remember to do. Our integrations with platforms like Workday allow employees to recognize someone in the tools they’re already using, making it easier for that appreciation to happen in the moment when it’s most relevant and impactful. That experience is also expanding through our new partnership with Kudoboard, which will br...