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For decades, hiring has centered around resumes. These documents have been used by organisations as their primary means of assessing candidates, looking at their qualifications, experience and career development. The resume became a standardised form of a candidate’s professional identity, a snapshot hiring managers could scan quickly and use to make decisions. This approach provided a structured way to filter applicants, but it was built for an era when roles were more static, career paths were linear and the pace of change in skills was relatively slow. But the limitations of resumes have become increasingly clear in today’s rapidly changing workforce. A resume by design is a frozen document that reflects a candidate’s past, not the present skills or future potential. It tends to put a premium on credentials, job titles, and tenure with the company, which can be biased and fail to recognize people with non-traditional backgrounds or new skillsets. Also, resumes aren’t even relevant...

EU Pay Transparency Directive Accelerates Shift Toward Centralised Global Payroll Data Payslip , the Global Payroll Control & AI Technology Company announced a significant milestone, automating over 1.3 million payslips annually across more than 125 countries, powering €5bn in payroll payments. This achievement also marks the two-year anniversary of Payslip’s strategic partnership with Deloitte and reflects the continued momentum in the global market towards AI led unified, centralized frameworks to better meet transparency demands. The market’s call for unified payroll data has never been louder. As pay transparency regulations expand notably, driven by the EU Pay Transparency Directive organisations face immense pressure to produce consolidated, audit-ready payroll data. For many multinational companies, payroll data remains trapped in disparate local systems and providers, making compliance with transparency directives an often-impossible task. A growing number of multinatio...

Built for companies operating across Canadian provinces, Folks is an all-in-one HRIS that simplifies recruitment & HR management while ensuring payroll accuracy Folks, a leading Canadian HR technology provider, announced the launch of its payroll platform, fully integrated with its HR software and designed specifically for organizations operating in Canada. Built with the complexities of Canadian employment regulations in mind, Folks is an HRIS platform that has been well established in Canada since 2010. With this new launch, it now brings together HR management, payroll, and compliance tools in a single solution tailored to companies managing teams across multiple provinces, including Québec. Canadian companies need HR technology that reflects the real complexity of operating in this country. Our platform was designed to help organizations manage their people, payroll, and compliance.” — Jimmy Plante, CEO of Folks As organizations grow across provincial borders, HR le...

One in four consumers rarely or never use their company device – driving friction, productivity loss, and risky workarounds Venn, the flexible workforce enablement company, announced new workforce research revealing that corporate laptop policies are increasingly misaligned with how employees work , increasing friction, reducing productivity, and driving shadow IT. The research found that 39% of respondents said a company-issued laptop feels outdated compared to how and where they work. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Bernard Barbour, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Skillsoft The research revealed that 34% of respondents were required to use a company-issued laptop, but 53% said they did not have a choice in the type of laptop. More than half (51%) of respondents said they would prefer to work on a personal laptop and half would prefer to receive a stipend from their employer to purchase a laptop. As a result, one in four consumers (26%) rarely ...

New tiered structure expands access to advanced AI-supported capabilities and ongoing enhancements to the Canvas experience Instructure , the leading learning ecosystem and maker of Canvas LMS, announced a comprehensive set of updates at “New & Next Showcase,” headlined by the introduction of a new, simplified tiered structure for Canvas designed to make it easier for institutions, districts and organizations to access expanded capabilities across the Instructure ecosystem. As institutions navigate increasing complexity across tools, workflows and emerging technologies, Instructure is evolving the way Canvas delivers value. This approach makes it easier to adopt, scale and extend functionality in ways that support more effective teaching and improved learner outcomes. Beginning later this year, institutions in North America will be able to access expanded capabilities through a new tiered model, with no migration required, no disruption to existing workflows and full control over...

Ellucian Student is higher education’s complete solution that powers the end-to-end student lifecycle. Together, Student, HCM, and Finance operate as one AI-native platform, aligning people, resources, and decisions around Ellucian’s vision: to unlock learning for all. Ellucian Student unifies systems on a single, interoperable platform. That foundation enables trusted AI guided by institutional policies, workflows, and compliance. Ellucian , the leading higher education technology solutions provider, launched Ellucian Student, higher education’s complete solution that powers the end-to-end student lifecycle — unifying Student, Human Capital Management (HCM), and Finance on a single, AI-native SaaS platform. Built with agentic AI designed specifically for higher education, Ellucian Student automates mission-critical campus workflows, aligns people and resources around student success and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Ellucian Student moves beyond the ...

As the co-owner of Online DISC Profile, I’ve spent my career analyzing the differences in how people work, communicate, and even act in relationships. Recently, we surveyed over 4,000 people to understand a new factor in how people act in the workplace: AI. The results were eye-opening. While a staggering 76% of employees are comfortable using AI at work, the way they interact with these tools isn’t a “one-size-fits-all” scenario. In fact, people’s DISC personality type (Dominant, Influence, Steadiness, or Conscientious) is a major factor in whether you’ll embrace AI or view it with skepticism. How your personality type can encourage AI use In our research, one personality type sticks out as a more frequent user: the D-type (Dominant). These people tend to want to move quickly and take charge of situations, and because AI works quickly, they can use various tools to complete tasks at speed, enabling them to stay in control while still managing a multitude of tasks.  However, t...