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iHire360 helps small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) hire smarter and more efficiently with an always-on approach to talent acquisition iHire announces the release of iHire360, an all-in-one, AI-powered recruitment management solution designed to make talent acquisition effortless for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). By blending AI with personalized expert hiring support, iHire360 enables an always-on approach to talent attraction, sourcing, and pipelining so organizations can continuously grow their teams, businesses, and employer brands. Talent acquisition is not a one-time effort, as the most competitive businesses are constantly testing advanced recruiting tactics like sourcing candidates to fill their pipelines and showcasing their employer brand through various digital marketing channels – Steve Flook, President & CEO, iHire Read More :  The Workplace Power Struggle: Navigating the CEO-CFO-HR Divide Key features of iHire360 include: High-Performing J...

Axiom Self-Service lets in-house legal teams find, evaluate, and engage leading legal talent in minutes—no calls, emails, or intake meetings required Axiom announced the launch of Axiom Self-Service, the industry’s first fully digital legal talent marketplace, which allows in-house legal teams to search, evaluate, select, interview, and onboard top-rated legal talent without any intermediary assistance. The service, which has been in ßeta release since February, is now available to all U.S.-based in-house legal departments. International expansion is planned for later this year. Axiom Self-Service represents a significant leap forward in how corporate legal departments source legal talent, allowing general counsel (GCs) and their teams to identify candidates and start scheduling interviews in as little as 10 minutes—dramatically faster than traditional legal talent search methods that can take days, weeks, or months. “For 25 years, Axiom has led innovation in the alternative l...

SnapCare , a leading provider of healthcare workforce solutions, officially launches Booker, the new name and identity for its cutting-edge SaaS platform. This update reflects SnapCare’s ongoing commitment to providing purpose-built solutions to meet the dynamic needs of healthcare organizations. As a strategic partner to healthcare organizations, SnapCare combines consultative expertise with Booker’s robust capabilities to help clients and partners reduce labor costs, improve shift fulfillment, and enhance care quality. “As workforce challenges grow more complex, healthcare organizations need more than just a technology platform—they need a partner,” said  Jeff Grant , CEO of SnapCare. “Booker reflects our commitment to delivering innovative workforce solutions that don’t just address staffing gaps but create long-term operational efficiencies and cost savings.” Designed for ease of use, Booker maintains the core functionalities that clinicians rely on, including same-day pay a...

Amy Farner, Executive Vice President and Head of Product at The Josh Bersin Company talks about their new AI copilot while throwing light on the evolving HRTech landscape in this interview with HRTech Series: _____________ Hi Amy, tell us about yourself and more about your time in the HRTech space? I’ve been working in the HR analytics, consulting, and technology market for the last 25 years. In that time, I’ve seen tremendous evolution in the tools that are available to HR professionals and organizations. That evolution has created the opportunity for HR to use data and tech to support the organization not only more efficiently, but also in infinitely more strategic ways. My entry point to HR was in survey administration and analysis, but in the early 2000s, I helped build and launch a product designed to consolidate, process, and report on HR data from various systems. Since then, I’ve helped organizations to best optimize their internal tech stack, but also have built tools t...

Experienced SaaS executive to lead global customer success, support and operations, scaling global customer loyalty and strengthening focus on voice of the customer. Udemy , a leading online skills marketplace and learning platform, today announced the appointment of Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh as the company’s first-ever Chief Customer Experience Officer (CCO). In this newly created role, Taychakhoonavudh will lead Udemy’s Global Customer Success and Customer Operations teams, overseeing enterprise customer adoption, expansion and retention strategies to meet the evolving needs of the company’s diverse, worldwide customer base. She will report directly to Udemy President & CEO, Hugo Sarrazin. Taychakhoonavudh brings extensive enterprise software and customer success leadership experience, most recently serving as Chief Customer Officer at Asana, and previously spent 14 years at Salesforce in leadership roles spanning customer success, renewals, partner strategy, industry soluti...

Strategic Acquisition Enhances Smartlinx’s Ability to Address Critical Staffing Challenges Smartlinx , a leading provider of workforce management solutions for senior care organizations, has acquired StafferLink, a provider of contingent staffing management software for the healthcare industry. StafferLink’s cloud-based Vendor Management System (VMS) and Agency Staffing Management (ASM) software products were purpose-built for healthcare facilities, agencies and managed service providers (MSPs) to source, manage and pay their contingent workforce. In aggregate, StafferLink is used to fill over 2 million shifts and manage over $1 billion of spend annually across more than 2,000 agencies. Together, Smartlinx and StafferLink will be able to deliver end-to-end solutions that enable healthcare organizations to optimize their utilization of full-time and supplemental staff. Read More :  How AI Can Improve Learning While Ensuring Privacy in 2025 “We are thrilled to welcome StafferLi...

Deena Perro and Brett Seller Named Strategic Account Executives Seeking to redefine workplace culture and training,  Atana announced that Deena Perro and Brett Seller have joined the company’s growing sales team as demand for its award-winning solutions increases. Named one of Nucleus Research’s “Hot Companies to Watch” for 2025, Atana offers comprehensive, turnkey solutions backed by behavioral science that enable transformational change at scale, which has become increasingly important in today’s rapidly evolving workplace. Bringing more than 20 years of experience in workforce solutions sales to Atana, Perro has joined the company from Plum, where she served as Director of Sales. Before that, Perro held sales positions at Eskalera, pymetrics, Infor, Manpower Group and Monster, developing deep industry knowledge and expertise. Perro’s earlier career highlights included Sprint, Verizon and Salomon Smith Barney Holdings. In addition to her professional succe...

Organizations are turning to Talent Management Tools to optimize workforce planning, performance evaluation, employee engagement, and succession strategy. However, one of the critical challenges faced by enterprises is the real-time processing and unification of talent data coming from disparate sources. Traditional databases and siloed systems fall short in delivering actionable insights at the speed of business. This is where a Data Lake Architecture becomes a foundational element in building a real-time talent intelligence ecosystem. Why Traditional Systems Fall Short? Most Talent Management Tools generate data across multiple verticals—recruitment pipelines, onboarding metrics, performance reviews, learning modules, engagement surveys, compensation benchmarks, and more. When these data streams live in isolated transactional systems or are batch-synced into outdated warehouses, organizations struggle to generate real-time, contextual insights. Not only does this impact decision...

Ant Group today unveiled Plan A, a new recruitment initiative to attract top artificial intelligence researchers, reinforcing its commitment to accelerating AI research and development under the “AI First” corporate strategy. Operating within the framework of Ant Star—Ant Group’s year-round campus recruitment program—Plan A specifically targets AI talents who are ambitious, adaptable, altruistic, and analytical. Outstanding graduates from universities worldwide with STEM majors are encouraged to apply for Plan A. Relevant fields include computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, information and telecommunication engineering, mathematics, statistics, and other emerging interdisciplinary areas. To better foster the development of technological innovators in this new AI era, Plan A offers candidates comprehensive support and resources, including unrestricted access to AI hardware and tailored career paths that allow for significant research freedom...

The job market is undergoing a significant transformation this year: Advancements in technology, driven by generative AI, are expected to automate up to 70% of employees’ work activities. Marketing, creative and design companies are feeling the push to adapt these new technologies – but to do so in a way that meets the needs of their increasingly diverse talent pool. As trends in AI continue to rapidly impact an estimated 104 million jobs, companies must find ways to leverage AI for efficiency and innovation rather than replace human ingenuity. As generative AI reshapes creative processes and return-to-office policies alter geographic salary trends, hiring managers and organizations must rethink hiring strategies to attract and retain top talent. On the other hand, for professionals to stay competitive, they should find ways to upskill beyond technical proficiency, as companies place a premium on adaptability, problem-solving and collaboration. As industries look for ways t...

QuickStart Learning, Inc. appoints new CEO,  Bret Fund , to lead strategic expansion as a mission-critical provider of cybersecurity and IT workforce development training. QuickStart Learning, Inc., the award-winning cybersecurity workforce readiness and career development company, announces the appointment of Bret Fund as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), starting in  April 2025 . Fund succeeds  Bryan Kenna , who served as CEO from 2022 to early 2025 and recently stepped down to join Colibri Group as President of Real Estate. Under Kenna’s leadership, QuickStart expanded its enterprise and bootcamp training offerings and strengthened operational infrastructure to support long-term growth. Prior to Kenna, QuickStart was led by  Ed Sattar , lead investor and current chairman of the board, who played a pivotal role in building the company’s core platform and driving its mission to distribute online access to IT training and career advancement. “I’m honored t...

This first-of-its-kind Universal Agent eliminates manual work with Voice and Vision AI to make end-users and IT teams 10x more productive Atomicwork launched its Universal Agent, a new multimodal AI solution that delivers proactive and context-aware support across enterprise applications and devices. The voice-enabled video support drastically reduces ticket volumes by 60% for enterprise service teams like IT, HR, BizOps, and Finance while improving end-user satisfaction by 25%. Atomicwork seamlessly integrates into employees’ flow of work across business applications on their browsers and devices including collaboration apps like Microsoft Teams, Slack and Email. Atomicwork keeps employees moving – no tickets, no detours, just instant help right in their flow of work – so IT teams can finally ditch the drag of legacy ITSM and ESM tools. “Legacy ITSM was built for managing tickets. Atomicwork is built to eliminate them,” said  Vijay Rayapati , co-founder and CEO of Atomic...

99% of L&D leaders believe their workforce will be “AI-ready” in the next two years, but only 14% of employees believe their organization is fully on track to acquire the necessary AI skills Workera , the leading AI-powered skills intelligence platform, today announced its inaugural 2025 State of Skills Intelligence Report. The study highlights several areas of disconnect between organizational leadership perceptions and employee realities in AI skills development, exposing the challenges within the current state of workforce transformation. The U.S. was found to have the least formal AI-related business objectives for 2025 and the least implemented overall AI adoption strategies. “Organizations are racing to adopt AI, but they are failing to bring their workforce along on the journey, which not only explains the disconnect but the biggest fundamental challenge in successful AI transformation,” said Kian Katanforoosh, CEO and founder of Workera. “If your AI strategy is not reach...

Company sees rapid traction in executive search, venture capital, and private equity sectors HelloSky (formerly Skyminyr), the only talent intelligence platform purpose-built for the executive search industry, today announced the close of a $5.5 million oversubscribed seed round. The raise includes participation from Caldwell Partners, Karmel Capital, True Capital Partners, Hunt Scanlon Ventures and prominent angel investors from Google and Cisco Systems. In addition, the company has surpassed $1 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and expanded its management team to add executives in sales and marketing. Hugh Burnham has joined the company as EVP, Sales and Marketing, and Mike Kelch has joined as Vice President of Sales. Burnham ran his own successful marketing and public relations agency serving B2B technology startups for the past 21 years prior to its acquisition in 2023 and Kelch brings extensive experience in go-to-market and customer growth strategies for AI-driven sol...

For only the second time in the past 12 years, the global percentage of engaged employees fell — from 23% in 2023 to 21% in 2024, according to Gallup’s latest  State of the Global Workplace  report. The primary cause was a drop in manager engagement: While engagement among individual contributors remained flat at 18%, managers’ engagement fell from 30% to 27%. The drop in global employee engagement cost the world economy  US$438 billion  in lost productivity in 2024. Managers’ Engagement No other worker category experienced as significant a decline in engagement as the world’s managers. Two types of managers were particularly affected: Young (under 35) manager engagement fell by five percentage points. Female manager engagement dropped by seven points. “Manager engagement affects team engagement, which affects productivity. Business performance — and ultimately GDP growth — is at risk if executive leaders do not address manager breakdown,” said  Jim Har...