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Franklin Templeton | August 07, 2020

Some emerging markets have been coping with the COVID-19 crisis better than others, and their economies are in different stages of recovery. Our emerging markets equity team highlights a few—and offers thoughts on why the pandemic has accelerated some existing fundamental and technological trends. A collapse in economic activity amid the COVID-19 pandemic and expectations of slowing loan growth, falling margins and rising bad debts have hurt near-term earnings forecasts for Brazilian finan...

SkillUp | July 13, 2020

American workers who have been laid off or furloughed in the wake of COVID-19 have a new resource to access training and employment opportunities, thanks to an ambitious initiative launched today by a collaborative team of training and education providers, employers, technology companies, job readiness nonprofits, and philanthropies. The nonprofit SkillUp Coalition will provide displaced frontline workers with opportunities to build new skills that help them secure in-demand jobs with promising ...

RECRUITMENT & RETENTION

Hire Dynamics | November 10, 2021

EmployBridge, a leading provider of technology-enabled, light industrial workforce solutions in the United States, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hire Dynamics. Hire Dynamics is a top provider of light industrial workforce solutions in the Southeastern United States with more than $450 million in annualized revenues. This transaction builds upon a recent platform investment in EmployBridge made by Apollo-managed funds and underscores EmployBri...

TALENT MANAGEMENT, HR PRACTICE

Global HR Research and Avionté | August 20, 2022

Global HR Research, a leader in employment screening technology and services, has integrated its advanced background screening solution with Avionté, the premier provider of recruiting software for staffing firms. Avionté's clients can now tap GHRR technology to simplify and accelerate the talent acquisition progress by leveraging the modern integration with GHRR's employment screening solutions, employee verifications and onboarding, individually and at scale, without need...