Welcome to the HR Tech Roundup. We have gathered the top HR trends for 2021 with different HR categories like Employee Engagement, e-Learning, Training and Development, Employee wellness, Career Development and Artificial Intelligence.
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FDB Named Indianapolis Star Top Workplace For Sixth Consecutive Year
FDB (First Databank, Inc.), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions, announced it has been named a Top Workplace for 2022 in central Indiana by The Indianapolis Star Top Workplaces awards program. This is the sixth consecutive year the company has been recognized with the award.
FDB is one of just 109 companies and organizations of all sizes across a 23-county region in central Indiana selected by The Indianapolis Star as Top Workplaces for 2022. While headquartered in South San Francisco, Calif., FDB also has offices in Indianapolis, Ind., in addition to Durham, N.C., the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and India.
Connectify HR Now Offering Access To Healthpartners Unitypoint Health Plans
Connectify HR, an Iowa-based Professional Employer Organization that provides small-to-midsize businesses with human resources services, expertise and technology, has selected HealthPartners UnityPoint Health as its health insurance provider. Connectify HR will sponsor a HealthPartners UnityPoint health plan with several unique plan designs allowing eligible Iowa-based clients to participate in the plan beginning in July 2022.
Talogy Presents New Research And Innovations As Talent Assessment Volume Expected To Climb To Pre-Pandemic Levels
Talent assessments are on the rise. Based on insight from CHROs across the globe, hiring and talent assessments are expected to return to pre-pandemic levels within the next 12 months.
Other key trends facing the future of assessment were presented by Talogy experts at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) 2022 Annual Conference in April.
SmartRecruiters Unveils Solution To Accelerate New Hire Onboarding
SmartRecruiters announced the launch of SmartOnboard, a native solution that delivers a seamless onboarding experience for new hires. The new solution allows HR teams to get new employees up and running through a simple, tailored, and engaging onboarding experience that can be managed at scale.
“Organizations with a standard onboarding process experience greater new hire productivity and an increase in talent retention, yet very few companies can report that they’ve got it right,” said Jerome Ternynck, Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters. “Research shows that nearly two-thirds of employees stay with a company for three or more years if they experience great onboarding. We’ve listened to our customer’s needs and created a product that truly streamlines the onboarding process for hiring managers and new employees.”
WorkReels Launches First Mobile App Specifically For Producing Recruiting Videos
WorkReels announced the world’s first video storytelling platform built specifically for recruitment and employer branding teams. WorkReels enables talent acquisition professionals to easily make and share high-quality, affordable social media videos for recruiting for about 1/20 the price of video production.
US employers posted a record 11.5 million jobs in March 2022 and jobless claims are at a 54-year low in the US, making competition for candidates fierce. Recruiters across all industries in the country are complaining of the same problem: They are unable to stand out among other employers to build an employer brand and talent pipeline that attracts enough qualified job candidates to fill their open roles. It’s been estimated that staffing shortages cost U.S. businesses more than $60 billion a month in lost sales.
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