HRD Tech Roundup - September 9th 2019

Welcome to the HRD Tech Roundup – your one-stop update of everything happening in the world of HR Technology.

This week, HR Technology comes to the rescue of every business function, in every corner of the world. FinFit partners up with Kronos to optimize workforce management, Advos and Slack set their sights on marketing teams, Pipeline Talent Solutions partner with Shiftgig to nail work scheduling, and more.

So, what’s been happening?

Key Players Announcements:

• FinFit has joined the Kronos Workforce Dimensions Technology Partner Network, a developing network of organizations that uses the Workforce Dimensions solution and Kronos D5 platform to restructure the future of workforce management. FinFit provides a complete solution within a single platform: financial education, live financial coaching, a financial dashboard for accounts and budgets, and credit and banking resources (via Business Wire).
• Advos has entered into a partnership with Slack to meet the real-time demands of marketers. Advos has also launched a beta version of a tool that provides real-time intelligence on sales prospects called Sales Pulse (via PRWeb).
• US-based talent management system Saba Software has partnered with Oman’s HR firm RAB HR in order to support their new client, Oman-based BankDhofar. Both RAB and Saba were chosen by the bank to ensure a tailor-made approach to impart world-class learning in an efficient and cost-effective manner (via PR Newswire).

More HRD Tech News

• Pipeline Talent Solutions has partnered with Chicago-based workforce technology company Shiftgig. Shiftgig has recently shifted their focus to a workforce engagement software platform called Deploy, used by staffing firms to link their workers to gigs for which they are suitable (via PR Newswire).
• noHold has announced the launch of HR Advisor, an AI-based Virtual Assistant that augments the way employees can effectively interact and communicate with the HR. HR Advisor addresses the challenge of tackling a growing global workforce with the same staff by making AI ask questions that typically congest the HR process (via PR Newswire).
• Saba Solutions has been named key provider in two new human capital reports from Constellation Research, thus becoming one of only two vendors to be included in both Constellation Shortlists for Talent Management Suites and European Talent Management Suites (via PR Newswire).

HRD Tech Founder Q&A

What is the true potential of HR and how can technology help us to achieve it?

In this installment of our Tech Founders series, Arik Akverdian, Founder and CEO, VCV, talks about how video interviews are not only making the hiring process simpler and faster, but are also stripping away layers of bias to make recruitment fairer for everyone. In the near future, will all interviews be conducted by video?

Read more.

HR Tech Influencer Spotlight:

According to a research conducted by the Center for Creative #Leadership, only 10% of skills are developed in a classroom. Roughly 20% come from developmental relationships with peers and mentors, and a whopping 70% come from experience. https://t.co/rMxxRTkrah #futureofwork pic.twitter.com/BtGBfaNncP

— Antonio Vieira Santos #️⃣#YourExpert🦉 (@AkwyZ) September 4, 2019

Truly inspiring thought leadership on the future of work shared by Antonio Vieira Santos this week. Definitely worth following!

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