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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

New solution connects recruiter workflows directly to compensation strategy, helping organizations hire faster while improving compliance and pay consistency. Payscale , the leading provider of compensation intelligence solutions, announced the launch of JobNav Recruiter, bringing compensation intelligence directly into recruiter workflows. Every employee’s pay journey begins with a recruiting decision. The new solution helps talent acquisition teams create compliant job postings, publish market-aligned pay ranges, and make hiring decisions that stay connected to enterprise compensation strategy. JobNav Recruiter is the latest addition to the Payscale Intelligence Cloud, extending compensation intelligence to the point where pay decisions first become visible to candidates. Built on technology from Payscale’s acquisition of Datapeople in 2025, the solution works directly from a recruiter’s ATS and expands to integrate with Payscale’s benchmarking solutions, connecting what compensat...

The Human Capital Institute (HCI) announced Leadership Councils, organizational memberships that bring HR leaders together to share insights and solve critical business challenges. HR leaders are navigating rapid change with limited time to test new solutions. Priorities shift quickly, teams are asked to do more with fewer resources, and emerging challenges often fall outside the scope of established practices. Leadership Councils were designed to close that gap, giving members a structured way to connect with peers, share practical solutions, learn from experts, discuss emerging trends, and benchmark against other organizations. “Peer-to-peer learning has never been more valuable than it is at this moment,” says Rafael Cardoso, President of HCI. “With the pace of change and disruption, the powerful insights you gain from peers who are working in real time, day-to-day, on the same challenges provide access to verified experience and expertise that enables teams to ...

Updated learning solution for schools and workforce programs prepare students and job seekers for success in an increasingly digital world CompTIA , a leading global provider of vendor-neutral technology training and certifications, has launched Digital Literacy Pro V3, an updated curriculum designed to help students and adult learners develop the digital, AI and technology skills needed for success in school, work and everyday life. “Digital skills have become essential for education, employment and daily life.” Digital Literacy Pro V3 combines digital literacy, digital citizenship, software applications, keyboarding and AI fundamentals into a single learning solution for middle and high school students, adult learners and workforce development participants. The launch comes as educators and employers place greater emphasis on digital skills while concerns grow over declining technology proficiency. Federal data show U.S. eighth-grade students’ computer and inform...

Purpose-built integration cuts staff email administration and gives correctional workforce partners insight into job-search and employer activity iT1 Nucleos  LLC and The Kiwi Group, Inc. today announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement to provide adults in custody with a secure, monitored avenue to apply for jobs and communicate with approved employers before release. The integration will combine iT1 Nucleos’ education and workforce-development capabilities within their AchieveDXP platform with GOinbox, The Kiwi Group’s hosted secure email service for correctional environments. GOinbox provides authorized users with real, working email addresses under agency supervision: actual email that reaches any employer’s inbox, not an internal messaging system. Through this system, authorized users will be able to submit applications for approved employment opportunities, receive employer responses, provide requested information, and complete permitted next st...

Can AI help you handle your HR tasks differently? The gap between automation and strategy, when narrowed down with the right processes can lead to effective HRTech adoption patterns. Earlier Agentic AI handled PTO queries and helped with algorithms that screened multiple resumed. Today, it has evolved into an autonomous system that continuously monitor workforce signals, predict skill shortages before they become crisis, pool in talent before the position goes vacant, and reshape how organizations understand and deploy their most valuable asset, i.e. their people. Done right, it is AI as a workforce strategist. Done wrong, it is automation that amplifies bias at scale and strips human dignity from career-defining decisions. The difference lies entirely in how it is built, governed, and overseen. From managing jobs to enhancing intelligence The most architecturally significant shift in agentic HR is the move from managing jobs to managing capabilities. Traditional HR systems are or...

Alorica Inc., a global leader in AI-powered customer experience (CX) and digital transformation services, announced a new impact sourcing program in India as part of its commitment to corporate social responsibility and inclusive growth. As the company expands its India operations and expects to create more than 2,000 jobs during the second half of 2026, it is intentionally connecting that growth to under-represented communities through local nonprofit partnerships—providing jobs, strengthening local economies and delivering industry-leading performance for clients. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI In Bengaluru, Alorica partnered with Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering people with disabilities through education, vocational training and employment. Together, the organizations welcomed its inaugural class of deaf and hard-of-hearing professionals to Alorica Indi...

Munich Re and EightByZero partner to give group carriers scalable, real-time HRIS connectivity, replacing costly one-off integrations across employer systems. Munich Re and EightByZero partner to address the HRIS connectivity challenge for group carriers Through a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Munich Re and EightByZero are bringing to market a solution designed to enable real-time data exchange between carriers and employer systems. As disability and absence programs become more complex, carriers are under pressure to deliver faster, more efficient experiences for employers and employees. Yet one challenge continues to slow progress for many group carriers: access to timely, accurate data from employer HR systems (HRIS). HRIS data supports everything from eligibility verification and claims intake to leave administration and return-to-work coordination. Historically, obtaining that data has required carriers to build and maintain individual integrations across a fragmented land...

Guild will provide Amazon hourly employees access to a structured and guided learner journey, leading to reliability maintenance and engineering (RME) technician job placement and building a talent pipeline into critical roles Amazon’s Career Choice program provides pre-paid tuition to learn new skills for career success at Amazon or elsewhere Guild  announced it has been selected as a partner for Amazon’s Career Choice program. Guild will provide Amazon’s hourly employees access to a structured and guided learner journey through its Guild Navigator product, connecting employees to maintenance and engineering technician job opportunities while helping Amazon develop a pipeline of qualified talent for these high-demand roles. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “Skilled technicians are the backbone of modern operations, and the most forward-thinking companies know that building that ...