HR Strategy

SIA Honors Leo Russell in Staffing 100 North America List

In recognition of his continued leadership and innovative approach to human capital solutions, Pride Global Founder and CEO Leo Russell has been honored with inclusion on the 2022 Staffing 100 North America list published by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA). Previously named to the 2021 list, Russell's bold approach to navigating a dynamic employment market and establishing his company's new Decidedly Diverse initiative secured his spot for the second year running.

In its announcement of the list's publication, SIA highlighted the unique challenges faced by staffing industry leaders in 2021. "Working relentlessly to move their companies and the workforce solutions ecosystem forward," said SIA editor and publisher Subadhra Siriam, "these intrepid professionals have done what it takes to ensure the workforce solutions ecosystem continues to thrive."

"Helping people find work in America—and now, around the globe—is truly as good as it gets, I'm honored to be included among so many incredible professionals in our industry, and I'm looking forward to doing my part to ensure we're helping the world work in every possible way."

- CEO Leo Russell

Russell launched Pride Global in 1983 as Pride Technologies, initially focusing on providing IT services to the financial industry. In the decades since, Russell oversaw the company's transformation to an international enterprise with more than 4,500 associates across 10 brands. In addition to his work with Pride Global, he has founded Pride in Education, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that offers a full range of vocational training and educational opportunities for diverse communities, as well as the Diversified Staffing Alliance trade association, which provides firms with diverse ownership access to business opportunities with leading corporate clients.

About Pride Global
Pride Global is a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm that helps companies solve complex human resource challenges from its headquarters in Manhattan. The Pride Global network of companies operates throughout the U.S., U.K., India, and Brazil, offering a comprehensive range of human resources solutions, including managed services, vendor management, payroll programs, business process optimization and staffing for both direct hire and contingent labor, among others.

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HireVue's 'Human Potential Intelligence' Revolutionizes Recruitment

HireVue | October 09, 2023

A new category for recruiting has been introduced by HireVue, the industry innovator and leader in human potential intelligence. This represents a departure from traditional hiring procedures and the introduction of a cutting-edge paradigm that evaluates candidates based on their expertise. HireVue upends conventional wisdom in order to put the emphasis precisely where it belongs: on human potential. According to HireVue, conventional hiring practices are ineffective and out of date, a belief shared by employees and job seekers globally. More than 3000 people were surveyed for the recent HireVue Hiring Experience Report 2023, and the results revealed widespread dissatisfaction with the hiring environment. Lack of feedback (40%), reliance on resume evaluations rather than skill and potential assessments (30%), the necessity of more simplified procedures to accommodate changing requirements (37%), and the prevalence of erroneous job descriptions (31%), are all sources of aggravation. Traditional "Rearview Recruiting," which bases recruiting decisions on resumes and qualifications, is based on outdated procedures. By relying largely on profile scraping and resume screening, Legacy HR Tech exacerbates the problem. Focusing just on a person's past accomplishments rather than their potential causes blind spots and makes it more difficult to identify future skill requirements. The soulless, laborious, opaque, too drawn-out, limited communication, and lack of feedback in this old approach further irritate candidates. A fresh approach is provided by HireVue's Human Potential Intelligence, which goes beyond customary methods and puts fairness and impartiality first. It eliminates guessing and replaces it with a deep understanding of each candidate by utilizing AI to evaluate individuals based on potential, abilities, and interests. This innovative strategy positions HR as a strategic talent incubator rather than just a cost center, ushering in a new era in which the hiring process is transformed into a human journey of empowerment and progress for all parties. Founder & Chief Analyst at Aptitude Research, Madeline Laurano, said, HireVue's introduction of 'Human Potential Intelligence' represents a groundbreaking shift in the traditional landscape of hiring. Relying on the constructs of the past like job descriptions and resumes falls short in identifying potential. Our innovative approach brings together both the art and science of hiring by design. It’s supported by their industry-leading AI and stands out as a beacon of change. By focusing on the potential and skills of the humans in the hiring process, this new category redefines hiring criteria and opens doors for companies to hire for the needs of today and ensure they have the right talent for the future. [Source: GlobeNewswire] The introduction of Find My Fit, a pioneering service leveraging HireVue's experience in AI-driven personnel assessment, is at the vanguard of this transformational plan. This program fills the gap between job seekers and openings by enabling them to find positions that match their abilities, passions, and untapped potential. Precision job matching is at the core of the Find My Fit program, ensuring that candidates are not only pointed in the direction of open positions but also to roles that are actually compatible with their individual abilities and potential. This strategy improves candidates' overall job-search experiences while also extending their horizons. The Find My Fit Application effectively addresses key challenges in today's competitive job market. It empowers job seekers who often struggle to identify suitable roles or doubt their qualifications. With this application, candidates can discover positions that match their skills and potential, expanding their job search possibilities. In a job market marked by frequent career changes, candidates often feel uncertain. The application offers guidance by directing individuals toward roles where they can succeed, even with differing prior experiences. Conventional hiring methods typically focus on resumes and qualifications, often overlooking candidates' true potential. However, the Find My Fit Application shifts the focus towards matching candidates with jobs based on their skills and interests, breaking free from rigid job title requirements. Additionally, it fosters inclusion by suggesting roles tailored to candidates' interests. This encourages individuals to consider positions they may not have explored otherwise, contributing to increased diversity. About HireVue HireVue’s expertise in science, artificial intelligence, and data, helps employers get potential candidates to designations where they can succeed, while also pointing them in the direction of the future. HireVue has hosted more than 70 million video interviews and 200 million chat-based candidate engagements for over 1,150 trailblazing clients throughout the world, including more than 60% Fortune 100 companies.

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Sequoia Partner with Typeface to Assist HR Leaders with Generative AI

Sequoia | October 12, 2023

Sequoia, a leader in benefits and compensation, and Typeface, an emerging generative AI platform for enterprise content creation, announced the launch of powerful new features designed to help HR leaders adapt to the fast-changing and disruptive workforce landscape. This collaboration allows Sequoia clients to integrate Typeface Generative AI technologies into their operational processes. This enhances key areas such as developing job descriptions for role clarity and unbiased hiring, as well as creating effective employee communications for distributed workforces and promoting program engagement. The newly introduced features utilize Typeface's AI model, enriched by Sequoia's extensive experience with companies of varying sizes. Sequoia, having worked with over 2000 clients ranging from 20 to 200,000 employees, understands the guidance and support required by finance and HR professionals to implement strategic decisions concerning their total workforce expenditure. Collaborative efforts between Sequoia and Typeface will persist, introducing more AI-powered enhancements to the Sequoia People Platform later this year. Greg Golub, Founder and CEO of Sequoia, stated, Workplace and economic dynamics are putting huge pressure on HR to do more with less and despite being essential for establishing an engaged culture, timely, and effective communication with both recruits and employees is a time-consuming challenge for HR. We are excited to provide these integrated Generative-AI capabilities on our platform to empower HR to concentrate on their strategic influence and meaningfully boost the efficiency of their work. [Source – Cision PR Newswire] About Sequoia Sequoia, recognized as a leader in Total People Investment, assists companies in establishing a competitive edge by enhancing employee retention, attracting high-caliber talent, and optimizing people-spend ROI. Their expert advisory services encompass compensation and benefits, complemented by a robust platform. Sequoia seamlessly integrates employee total compensation programs with in-depth people analytics, enabling companies to manage their global workforce investments dynamically. About Typeface Typeface operates as an enterprise-grade generative AI application, revolutionizing personalized content creation for businesses. With a unique blend of content velocity, brand personalization, and control, Typeface enables enterprises to generate exceptional, on-brand content effortlessly and efficiently. Their pioneering self-serve solutions facilitate complete content development throughout its lifecycle, empowering every employee to produce compelling content seamlessly, swiftly, and in alignment with the brand's authenticity.

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Employee Engagement

Avature Announces the General Release of its Social Learning Solution

PR Newswire | October 17, 2023

Avature, a leading provider of innovative Human Capital Management (HCM) software for recruiting and talent management, announces the beta release of its social learning solution to a select group of customers, and a general release before the end of this year. Industry reports indicate a very low and steadily declining percentage of employees' use of their company learning management system (LMS) on a regular basis. However, HR can reverse this lack of engagement by allowing employees to learn in the same way they have on YouTube, TikTok and other channels. Avature's social learning solution creates this type of user experience by lifting proven design concepts from social media, including the easy creation of user-generated content, the generation of algorithmically driven suggestions, and the use of artificial intelligence. Avature Learning is expected to promote organizational agility and engagement by facilitating the sharing of know-how, a company's most valuable asset. Intended to complement or replace customers' legacy LMS depending on how it is deployed, this solution allows HR leaders to compensate for the lost interaction between work-from-home employees, ensures knowledge is transferred from one generation to another and helps address the alarming declines in competencies and skills being reported across the educational spectrum. Providing numerous opportunities to acquire knowledge, Avature Learning offers an employee-centered learning experience, where subject matter experts are able to share critical know-how that might otherwise go undocumented, and content is organically curated based on user feedback and social interaction. Employees can easily find and recommend user-generated video and audio content as well as traditional training and courses, benchmark their progress against peers, obtain mentorships and create ad hoc meet ups and face-to-face learning sessions. With this solution, employers can effortlessly boost the value of their training programs, better facilitate internal mobility and accelerate time to productivity while lowering turnover. We believe learning must go beyond traditional L&D programs to remain strategically relevant, shared Dimitri Boylan, Founder and CEO of Avature. The ideal technology should help mine a workforce's wealth of knowledge and facilitate its dispersion. Our customers want to uncover the 'voice of the employee' and bring learning to life, he added. Industry analyst Josh Bersin was able to see the solution in action and highlighted the benefits of its unique social approach, "The vast amount of corporate learning that takes place is not authored by the training department. It is authored by experts, passionate professionals and peers. So, we need a "social learning" platform that lets people author and upload videos and other forms of content and then quickly and easily check it, publish it and make it easy to find. This is what Avature has built." Avature Learning also seeks to put HR in control of its digital transformation and offers numerous tactical opportunities to design and deploy processes that grow the company's collective IQ and drive the business toward its strategic objectives. With built-in CRM functionality and real-time analytics, HR teams are provided with the best engagement toolkit to target content, measure employee's progress and ensure they're keeping pace with learning objectives. From a business standpoint, Josh Bersin agrees the solution's features enable successful knowledge transfer, "I've always believed that 70 to 80 percent of the knowledge and intellectual property within a company is custom to that company's business. Every business process, proprietary tool, and internal procedure represents a custom, internal training need. Platforms like Avature's Learning Hub can tap into this." Avature's learning solution can seamlessly integrate into customers' existing talent technology ecosystem using Avature's mature and configurable REST endpoints and open API framework. Data from other systems can be imported and used by Avature's workflow engine to promote learning activities for individual employees and data can be easily exported to support onboarding and internal mobility processes in other systems. With this release, Avature bolsters its Talent Management Suite, adding yet another best-in-class solution to the portfolio that its Global 2000 customer base can implement from a single platform. About Avature Avature is a highly configurable enterprise HCM SaaS platform for talent acquisition and talent management, and the leading provider of CRM and ATS technology for human resources globally. Founded by Dimitri Boylan, co-founder and former CEO of HotJobs.com, Avature brings consumer-grade internet technology and digital innovation to human resources departments. Avature solutions include shared services sourcing, applicant tracking, career sites, campus and events recruiting, employee referral management, social onboarding, branded employee engagement, employee mobility and workforce optimization, employee case management, performance management and learning. Used by 110 of the Fortune 500 in more than 164 countries and 32 languages, Avature delivers its services from its private cloud, located in data centers around the world. Learn more at www.avature.net.

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The AI HR Takeover: Semos Clouds Skills Analytics Redefines Talent Management

PRWeb | October 06, 2023

Semos Cloud, a leading provider of innovative HR technology solutions, proudly announces a game-changing update to its flagship products, JobPts and Skills. This milestone signifies a monumental leap forward in shaping company culture, driven by the transformative power of HR Analytics. In a strategic move to elevate both efficiency and employee engagement within organizations, JobPts, the renowned recognition and rewards solution, unveils a series of transformative updates: Swag for Service Anniversaries: Recognizing the importance of appreciation, JobPts now allows admins to select swag items for employees' service anniversaries. This personal touch adds a meaningful dimension to awards and fosters a culture of recognition. Swag for Recognition: Employees have the power to choose swag items to send to their colleagues, enhancing the significance of every moment and making awards more meaningful. To ensure a seamless experience, employees using this recognition option will also have the option to confirm the recipient's address or provide necessary data, adding a personal touch to recognition. Efficiency in Approvals: This new feature tracks metrics associated with approvers' effectiveness. This includes metrics such as approver engagement with the platform, the speed of approval, and approval status (approved, approved with modifications, not approved). These valuable insights pinpoint areas that may require further attention and enable optimization of the recognition process, ultimately boosting employee engagement. Scheduling Recognition Programs: allows admins to schedule and set custom date ranges for recognition programs. This feature is particularly valuable for events like Diwali and the Christmas gifting season, where admins can effortlessly create and activate programs within specified date ranges. This time-saving capability ensures that employees enjoy memorable celebrations during important occasions while minimizing administrative effort. Skills HR Analytics - A Culture Revolutionizing Feature Semos Cloud has introduced paradigm-shifting analytics for its solution Skills that increase the visibility of skill sets in the workforce, allowing for more control over talent development and workforce management. Elevated Decision-Making with HR Analytics: Improved HR Analytics is a momentous change that empowers HR administrators to transform data into actionable insights. It provides organizations with the ability to identify and nurture top talent effectively, paving the way for strategic HR decisions. For example, detect X-shaped talent and rising stars in time to secure and support the top talent for long-term organizational success. Skills Analytics Transformation for Managers and Employees: Skills Analytics is not just an enhancement; it is a culture revolution. With dynamic and intuitive dashboards designed for managers and users, Skills Analytics offers an unprecedented view of employees' skill sets. This empowers individuals to pinpoint areas for growth and development. Overseeing Projects in Skills: Skills empowers employees to oversee project and skills data over time effortlessly. Increase team collaboration by offering growth opportunities and engage more employees by showing skill development progress even in isolated projects – to foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Conclusion Semos Cloud's groundbreaking updates for JobPts and Skills herald a new era in HR technology. With Skills HR Analytics as its centerpiece, Semos Cloud empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their talent, ushering in a culture of excellence and collaboration. For more information on these transformative updates and how Semos Cloud can help your organization thrive in this new HR era, please visit http://www.semoscloud.com. About Semos Cloud Semos Cloud is a pioneer in innovative HR technology solutions, dedicated to enhancing employee engagement, recognition, and talent development. With a commitment to excellence and a focus on delivering measurable results, Semos Cloud empowers organizations to create thriving workplaces where employees can reach their full potential.

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