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2013 #hrwins Announced!

  This week we announced the 2013 #hrwins.  #hrwins is the first ever complete look at truly innovative HR Technology products across all categories.  Last year one of the vendors I evaluated called it a “Celebration of Innovation”.  I think that’s fitting.  Everything we do here is rooted in the belief that when HR Technology [...]

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ReTargeter and InfluenceHR Are Pushing Companies to Find the Right Audience

Companies have never had more opportunities to target the right audience than today. Marketing doesn’t have to be a shotgun approach, hoping your message hits someone who will listen. Instead, you can target with laser focus to market to the right people. That’s what ReTargeter helps people do. I’m happy to say that ReTargeter, a [...]

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Smart Money Is On SmartRecruiters

Last week I had the pleasure of spending some time with SmartRecruiters in their San Francisco Headquarters. I was there for their most recent Smartup, a series of monthly panel discussions on HR and Recruiting Innovation. I got much more than I bargained for. Before the panel started I was given an impromptu briefing by [...]

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#hrwins Trend Report: Are New Video Interviewing Tech Firms a Day Late and A Dollar Short?

One of the trends that emerged through the 120+ #hrwins briefings was the emergence of so many video interviewing solutions.  Three years ago there were 2 or 3 vendors to speak of.  Today there are at least 10 firms providing video interviewing capabilities to the marketplace.  New ones are still popping up on our radar. [...]

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2012 #hrwins HR Companies To Watch Vendor Report: Ceridian Dayforce

When I started #hrwins I hoped to find someone impacting core HR processes for the Mid-Market.  That’s where most of the employment is in the US.  HR Technology helping with true day-to-day challenges is innovation that really matters.  We like to get all excited about the shiny new trends – Social, Mobile, Big Data, etc., [...]

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2012 #hrwins HR Companies To Watch Vendor Report: SkillSurvey

Quality.  When it comes to Talent Acquisition, achieving a consistent Quality of Hire is like the quest for the Holy Grail.  Whether it’s more like the folklore and tales of old or more like the Monty Python version – I leave that up to you and your personal  experience. Quality of Hire is dependent on [...]

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#hrwins Trend Report: A Bright Future for HR Technology Users

  One of the emerging trends that presented itself through this year’s #hrwins process results from the convergence of several other, already established, trends.  As Cloud Computing has been accelerating toward the eclipse of OnPremise software in overall market share, Application development has been described more and more as becoming almost an art form or [...]

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#hrwins Trend Report: HR Tech Innovators Target Middle Sized Businesses

One of the most interesting trends to unveil itself through this year’s #hrwins process has been the number of HR Technology companies that are now getting real traction for their solutions at companies with under 5,000 employees – or what is traditionally called the Small and Medium Business segment (SMB).  For the sake of this [...]

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2012 #hrwins HR Companies To Watch Vendor Report: Jobscience

  For some of us that have been in the Cloud Computing Revolution from its start in the 90s it’s easy to overlook the fact that this trend isn’t old news.  When you roll up the forecasts and market estimates for  the Cloud (here’s a really good roll up from Louis Columbus) you suddenly realize [...]

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2012 #hrwins HR Companies To Watch Vendor Report: RiseSmart

  Employee Transition.  Outplacement.  Reductions In Force Support.  Whatever you call it, it’s the part of the Talent Lifecycle that we don’t like to dwell on, however it’s something that has been on the rise through good times and bad.  The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)reported that since 1996 the number of layoffs of [...]

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