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Phenom Earns 2026 CODiE Award Finalist Recognition in Three Categories, Including Product of the Year

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Recognized for Driving AI Innovation to Redesign Work Operations Phenom , the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer, announced that it has been named a 2026 CODiE Awards finalist in three categories: Phenom Applied AI for “Best Talent Management Solution” and Phenom Voice Screening Agent for both “Best Productivity/Workflow Solution” and the highly coveted “Product of the Year.” Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “The HR tech space is full of AI that sounds impressive until it meets the real complexity of enterprise workforces,” said John Deal, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at Phenom. “We’re solving problems other vendors are still describing.” Now in its 40th year, the CODiE Awards are the technology industry’s most established peer-reviewed recognition program. Finalists are selected through a rigorous evaluatio...

Digital Marketing Recruiters Publishes Comprehensive Guide to CMO Hiring

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Digital Marketing Recruiters (DMR), a specialized recruitment firm focused on digital marketing talent, has published a new resource detailing how companies can approach the process of hiring a chief marketing officer, from assessing organizational readiness to structuring candidate evaluation and benchmarking compensation for 2026. The guide addresses one of the most consequential — and commonly mishandled — executive hires in growth-stage companies. A CMO placed in the wrong environment, or hired before the organization is ready, can set revenue growth back by 12 to 24 months. Conversely, the right CMO connects brand strategy, demand generation, and revenue operations into a single coherent function. Readiness Before Recruiting The guide explains that timing the hire correctly is as important as making the right selection. Most SaaS companies, for instance, are prepared to support a full-time CMO once they reach $10 million to $20 million in ARR with product-market fit and a repe...

Magnolia Acquisitions Launches Summer Hiring Initiative, Offering Graduates a Prime Career Opportunity

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Recent graduates can explore growth-focused career opportunities through Magnolia Acquisitions’ expanded summer hiring initiative. As recent graduates begin taking the next step in their professional journeys, Magnolia Acquisitions  is expanding its team and opening the door to new career opportunities across its Knoxville office. Through a summer hiring initiative focused on development, mentorship, and long-term growth, the company is seeking motivated individuals interested in building careers in sales, leadership, and business development. The initiative comes at a time when many graduates are looking for more than just a job. Increasingly, early-career professionals are seeking workplaces that provide meaningful experience, opportunities for advancement, and the ability to develop valuable skills that will support long-term success. Magnolia Acquisitions aims to provide exactly that. The company is currently hiring for several positions, including entry-level sales roles, ...

AllUnity and Zebec Deploy EURAU-Powered Employee Benefits and Enterprise Payment Solutions on Stellar

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AllUnity  and  Zebec announced the launch of an EURAU-based employee benefits and enterprise payments program on the Stellar network. The pilot program aims to expand payroll and workforce payments in AllUnity’s regulated euro stablecoin across its ecosystem, including its major enterprise clients and partners. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI AllUnity and Zebec launch an EURAU-powered employee benefits and enterprise payments pilot program on the Stellar network, bringing regulated digital euros into real-world business operations. Built on Stellar and powered by EURAU, AllUnity’s regulated euro stablecoin, the program combines regulated digital currency with enterprise grade payroll and payments infrastructure purpose built for global value transfer. Employees participating in the pilot can receive benefits directly to digital wallets while accessing a growing range of spending, s...

The Rise of the Chief Skills Officer: How HRTech Is Reshaping Leadership?

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We’re experiencing one of the largest shifts in the world of work ever. Across industries, organizations are responding to rapid technological innovation, changing business models, automation, artificial intelligence, and evolving employee expectations. These forces are fundamentally changing how work is done, how talent is managed, and how organizations compete. With workforce transformation accelerating, business leaders are more and more realizing that skills—not job titles—are the most valuable currency in the digital economy. Workforce structures are being digitally disrupted at an unprecedented pace. New technologies are creating entirely new categories of jobs and simultaneously changing the criteria for existing jobs. A skill that was very relevant a few years ago might not be enough anymore, and new skills in areas like artificial intelligence, data analytics, cybersecurity, and automation are becoming essential to the success of an organization. This constant evolution has m...

Alliant Insurance Services Welcomes Liana Schindler to Employee Benefits Group

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Schindler will help employers strengthen engagement, improve efficiencies, and align benefits strategies with business goals Alliant Insurance Services  announces that Liana Schindler has joined the company as Senior Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group. She will partner with employers to develop strategic workforce and benefits solutions that support organizational growth, strengthen employee engagement, and enhance operational efficiencies. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “Liana brings a unique combination of employee benefits, human capital management, and business development experience to our team,” said Kevin Overbey, President, Alliant Employee Benefits. “She has a proven ability to build strong relationships, identify opportunities, and deliver meaningful results to a diverse array of clients.” With 15 years of experience spanning HCM technology consulting, employee be...

uRecruits Launches 2.0 With 7 Connected Hiring Capabilities and Recruiter-Controlled AI Agents

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Recruit smarter: AI assists, humans decide. The recruiter-first platform connects sourcing, Talent CRM, assessments, screening, offers, and analytics on one candidate record, with no automated candidate advancement, rejection, or hiring decisions. uRecruits announced the launch of uRecruits 2.0, a recruiter-first AI hiring platform built to bring the hiring process into one connected workflow. Instead of moving between disconnected tools, recruiting teams can manage jobs, candidates, assessments, screening, scheduling, offers, background workflows, and analytics from a single candidate record. uRecruits 2.0 also introduces uR Agent, an AI layer that helps recruiters reduce manual work while keeping every candidate decision in human hands. uRecruits does not automatically advance, reject, or hire candidates. AI assists with workflow steps, recommendations, scoring, coordination, and reminders, but recruiters remain responsible for every hiring decision. “Recruiting teams need ...