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A job application once held weight: a well formed resume, a clear cover letter, a thoughtful screening answer. In the past two years, genAI has flattened most of that trusted signal to noise. Now, trust is eroded and talent professionals are struggling to make heads or tails of this new hiring landscape. The problem is not only resting on candidates, who are doing the logical thing by using AI tools to polish and mass apply to jobs. Employers are still using screening methods that were built for a hiring landscape that no longer exists. This is not a candidate problem The seductive response is to blame candidates, to say their use of AI tools to mass produce cover letters and applications has turned the process into an untrustworthy mess. But let’s be frank: people are doing the rational thing. According to Greenhouse’s 2026 AI in Hiring Report, 74% of candidates in the U.S. now use AI in their job search. They are using tools that make them shine, make applying faster an...

This combination brings together connected intelligence, human expertise, and national scale to improve benefits performance every day, not just at renewal Alliant Insurance Services announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Nava Benefits, combining Alliant’s advisory depth, analytics, scale, and risk expertise with Nava’s AI-native HQ platform to help define the next generation of employee benefits brokerage. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ The acquisition comes at an important inflection point for the industry. Technology has long supported benefits brokerage, but artificial intelligence creates an opportunity to fundamentally change how benefits are delivered. Rather than adding another technology layer to a traditional service model, Alliant and Nava intend to create a more connected operating model in which real-time intelligence, technology, and human expertise work together to improve benef...

BetterWay Devs, a boutique IT staffing and recruiting firm specializing in nearshore talent solutions for U.S. and North American companies, ranked No. 40 among Human Resources companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000, a category typically dominated by much larger firms, while placing No. 1,347 overall nationally. Company Recognized for 262% Three-Year Revenue Growth, Earning a Place Among the Nation’s Most Successful Independent Businesses BetterWay Devs today announced it has ranked No. 40 among Human Resources companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000, the annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, and No. 1,347 overall. The list is the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s most successful independent and entrepreneurial businesses, recognizing companies that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation, creating jobs, and shaping the economy’s future. Past honorees include companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Patagonia, and fellow nearsho...

AI and data job postings rose 80% in the last year, led by AI engineering roles, while workers aged 22-25 experienced a 16% decline in employment. DataCamp , the leading platform for AI and data skill building, released its new report : The State of AI Careers 2026. Drawing on exclusive data from Lightcast, the global standard for labor intelligence covering 165 countries in the world, the report analyzes two million unique job postings across 85 regions worldwide between January 2024 and April 2026. It finds that the AI and data job market expanded strongly in the past year, following a slight decline in 2024 and a period of stagnation in 2025. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ AI & Data Roles Lead the Rebound in Job Creation Among the 25 roles tracked, AI-focused and technical roles consistently grew faster than other categories. AI engineering roles had the highest growth rate, increasing 255% year-over-year....

New customer bookings more than triple as employers shift to validated skills and trusted, science-backed AI; Hirevue launches AI Interviewer and Assessment Builder and earns FedRAMP Certification Hirevue , a global leader in skills validation, shared strong results for the first half of the year. Growth was fueled by significant new customer acquisition, continued demand for skills-based hiring and assessments, expansion across U.S. and international markets, and the launch of new AI-powered products. This first half of the year has been marked by a broader shift in the industry: Teams are looking to move from traditional hiring signals towards validated skills, hiring science, and data that identifies the candidates with capabilities to succeed. And as AI floods the hiring process, employers increasingly need technology they can trust and defend—technology that is transparent, science-backed, and validated to predict real-world performance. Hirevue has: More than tripled bookings...

The Practitioner Files, an independent publication covering people operations, organizational design, and the application of artificial intelligence in human resources, has launched with a founding cohort of contributing writers drawn from working HR practitioners. The publication was founded by Drew Soule, a human resources executive with 15 years of experience across technology, aerospace, financial services, and healthcare organizations. Its editorial position centers on publishing analysis written by practitioners currently doing the work, rather than by vendors, analysts, or consultants writing from outside operating environments. The launch comes as the human resources profession navigates significant structural change. Organizations are flattening reporting structures while distributing work across locations and time zones, artificial intelligence tools are being introduced into workflows that were designed for manual processing, and expectations of the HR function are shifti...

We’ve all been there – either on the receiving end or “pushing” end of a new tool, policy, or application that seemingly nobody asked for. The mandatory training module that sat on everyone’s to-do list for months. The software migration that generated more helpdesk tickets than productivity gains. Traditionally, the CHRO’s job for most rollouts is to create urgency where it doesn’t already exist, nudging a reluctant organization toward a technology it doesn’t understand or trust (yet!). But when Guild analyzed AI learning participation by occupation, a clear pattern emerged: workers whose core deliverables are already changing via AI are leaning in hardest without being asked. AI and machine learning enrollment has nearly doubled year over year, growing from 4.2% of all learners in Q1 2025 to 7.6% in Q1 2026. Managers are emerging as outsized drivers of team-level learning cascades. The workforce isn’t waiting to be convinced. They are already moving. Unfortunately...