Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Talent Management is the broad set of topics that include sourcing, recruiting, career progression, performance management, succession, and often includes pay, rewards, and leadership development.
Today Workday announced the acquisition of Paradox.ai, the pioneer in AI-based conversational recruiting. As I detail in my podcast, this deal could be far more than an addition to Workday’s recruitment offering. It could significantly expand Workday into the front-line worker market, broaden the product portfolio, and deepen Workday’s AI expertise.
Paradox was ... Read more»
Introducing Galileo® for Managers, the leadership guru at the fingertips of every manager.
It’s hard to be a manager: hiring people, setting goals, creating alignment, and coaching can be difficult. And expectations for leaders are high: companies are trimming mid-level leaders every day.
What if you had an AI agent trained on every possible ... Read more»
All of a sudden, there’s a theme and meme that entry-level jobs are going away. Even Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently told Axios that 50% of white collar jobs may go away, leaving us with a 20% unemployment rate. (video interview below)
Okay, let me get my head screwed on straight here, ... Read more»
There has been a lot of debate about whether this multi-billion dollar investment in AI is going to pay off. Well in HR alone, I’m here to report that the answer is YES.
This week Jim Cramer, the most famous Wall Street TV personality and hedge-fund manager, actually brought it out.
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As the WSJ has reported extensively, companies like Harley Davidson, Tractor Supply, Walmart, and McDonalds are publicly pulling back on DEI programs, largely under pressure by political activists. Fueled by the supreme court’s striking down of affirmative action in 2023, there is a political movement to dismantle the “social justice” movement that took hold ... Read more»
With all the mixed messages in the latest election, one rings loudly for leaders: the US Government must become more efficient. US voters did not seem impressed with the billions spent on the Chips and Infrastructure acts: they want lower taxes and more accountable government.
As Elon Musk explains, reducing costs is an exercise ... Read more»
As I discussed in the article Digital Twins, Digital Employees, Agents Everywhere, tech vendors are creating AI-powered Agents as fast as they can. And in HR, where we deal with hundreds of mundane checklist-types of processes, the opportunity for automation is everywhere.
This week, just as Microsoft launched a tools to help companies build ... Read more»
This week Rippling, a fast-growing mid-market HR Tech company, introduced a fascinating product called Talent Signal. This product reads work output data from Github (for engineers), Salesforce and Gong (for sales people), and Zendesk (for service reps) and uses AI to analyze their performance.
How does it work? The system uses several inputs. With ... Read more»
Of all the AI innovations we’ve seen in the workforce, perhaps the most significant is Talent Intelligence. Talent Intelligence, as we define it, is the use of massive amounts of employee and workforce data to understand skills, job fit, performance, leadership potential, career pathways, pay equity, and organizational capability.
As we introduce new ... Read more»
This week we published a disappointing research study, Talent Acquisition at a Crossroads. The study, conducted in partnership with AMS, points out that talent acquisition leaders (this is a senior position) are largely left out of their company’s strategic planning process and many feel they operate as “order takers.”
In today’s world of ... Read more»
This week I attended the BetterUp Uplift conference and I really was impressed. This is a company that exploded into the market with an innovative coaching and employee wellbeing network built around an assessment called the “whole person model.” Through a set of shrewd marketing and sales strategies BetterUp established a leadership position in this ... Read more»
Chatbots used to be tinker-toys. You type, try to get help, but usually result in “please call support.” Well all this has changed.
Thanks to advanced NLP (natural language processing) and AI (retrieval-augmented generation) chatbots are entire applications. They can answer complex questions, search databases, and invoke transactions on your behalf.
Pretty soon we’ll be ... Read more»
The labor market has changed before our eyes. Employers and HR teams better watch out.
Over the last five decades baby boomers defined the workforce. Today things could not be more different, and this change impacts all of us.
I was born in the 1950s, growing up in a world where the middle class experienced ... Read more»
In this (long) article, I want to talk about a new concept called Talent density. And as I pondered the concept I think it represents one of the more important topics in management. So I hope you find it as interesting as I do.
First of all, the concept of talent density, pioneered ... Read more»
This week Workday announced intent to acquire HiredScore, a leading provider of AI-based matching tools for recruiting (called “talent orchestration”). While it wasn’t discussed much in the earnings call, this deal is a big positive for Workday and could have many implications for the HR Tech market.
Let me explain. (I have not been ... Read more»
