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The research below is drawn from more than five years of industry studies, practitioner interviews, and deep analysis of the most important topics facing talent leaders today.
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Research Reports and Graphics
The State of Hiring in Financial Services: What’s Now and What’s Next [Report]
Within the context of this new report, we look at some of the specific data that apply to the financial services sector based on responses from talent leaders at those firms in our 2023 Talent Acquisition Trends study. Not only that—we’ll also pull in some candidate data points to highlight what candidates are looking for…
The State of Hiring: How the Manufacturing Industry is Responding [Report]
“It’s the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in more than 25 years of recruiting.” This comment is probably one you have either heard or spoken yourself in the last year. From the shortage of qualified talent to historically low unemployment levels to layoffs at some companies, the hiring market seems to be sending mixed messages…
Key Takeaways from the 2023 Performance, Engagement, and Culture Enablement Livestream
Recently we posted about our PEACE livestream session that we were hosting in conjunction with Quantum Workplace, HiBob, and Confirm. This session attracted more than a thousand HR and talent leaders and was an incredible success. Below we have drawn key insights from each speaker to share, including our research preview with me and our…
Performance, Culture, and Employee Retention [Infographic]
Making work meaningful isn’t a pipe dream. It isn’t something that can’t happen. But it also doesn’t happen without intention and effort. Our latest research on PEACE – Performance, Engagement, and Culture Enablement is focused on how to do this in the modern workplace. (Hint: some things have changed, and others haven’t changed a bit!)…
What’s New in Employee Retention, Performance, and Culture? [Livestream]
On Thursday, August 10th, our team will be hosting a special livestream to look at our brand new data on Performance, Engagement, and Culture Enablement (PEACE). Based on 1,000 global workers, this study has some incredible insights on how employees feel about their experiences at work today, what employers need to do to support them,…
Biased, Burdensome, and Burnt Out: The Unlimited PTO Story [New Research]
Not too far in the past, a company that offered its workers an unfettered amount of paid leave would have seemed illogical at best. After all, the typical method of accruing paid leave over time was commonplace and widely accepted by employers and employees alike. But then a small minority of companies began to offer…
Newsflash: The Wellbeing of Your Workforce is Your Business [Infographic]
The last month has held a lot of travel for the team here at Lighthouse. From Unleash in Las Vegas to the HR Technologies UK event in London to the Responsible HR Forum in New York City, it’s been a whirlwind. It’s easy in those times to try to focus on productivity at all costs,…
Critical Success Factors For Attracting and Hiring in the Modern Environment [New Report]
Hiring moves quickly. That’s true in a practical/process sense, but it’s also true from a broader trends perspective. What works today is different in some ways from what worked two or five years ago. As we’ve been drawing insights from our new talent acquisition research (our first infographic on Pay Transparency, Ghosting, and Other TA…
3 Learning Trends for 2023: Talent Shortage, Manager Enablement, and Mental Health [New Report]
At the Learning Technologies UK event last week, I found in many conversations with learning professionals that they can get bogged down and frustrated by the continuous treadmill. Identify a need, build/acquire training, develop skills, measure outcomes, and repeat. That’s a simplified version of what our friends in talent development do every day. It’s not…
Women are 50% Less Likely to Have Visibility into Internal Career Opportunities [New Research]
Recently, the Japanese multinational Fujitsu was commended by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry for its efforts to encourage the success of women across its 100,000-plus workforce over the last year. This story is like many others, and employers around the globe are working to advance the number of opportunities for women in…
Case Studies
Eightfold.ai 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company With a deep-learning AI platform and massive datasets (on more than a billion careers, representing much of the working world) companies can hire and manage a diverse, global workforce. This is especially important now, given the attention being paid to talent and how rapidly the skills needs of companies are changing; in…
Lever 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company For a long time, hiring was a transactional process: moving from resume to interview, interview to offer, offer to first day in the office. In this world, applicant tracking systems supported traditional, inbound hiring needs. But today’s talent acquisition isn’t a transaction. It’s a dialog. A network of relationships among people —…
BrightHire 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company BrightHire is the world’s leading Interview Intelligence platform. We transform the quality of hiring for high-growth companies like Canva, Carta, Attentive, and Salesloft by helping individuals run better interviews and helping teams hire faster with less bias. Our technology rides along on Zoom, Google Meet and phone interviews, automatically records and transcribes…
Seekout 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company SeekOut is an AI-powered Talent 360 platform for Enterprise Talent Optimization that enables companies to quickly hire, grow, and retain talent while focusing on diversity, technical expertise, and other hard-to-find skillsets. SeekOut lets great companies and great people to grow together. Six out of 10 of the highest valued companies in the…
Sparrow 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Sparrow makes it simple for employers to care for their people with the first true end-to-end leave management solution where innovative technology is coupled with a world-class leave specialist team. This enables mid-market employers to reduce compliance risks, enhance the employee experience, operate better, and contain costs. The technology integrates with HRIS…
Enboarder 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Enboarder, the world’s only People Activation Platform specifically designed to inspire action and truly engage employees, was founded on the belief that people are a company’s greatest asset, and that businesses should put their employees above all else –– even investors, customers and other stakeholders. Founder and CEO Brent Pearson discovered that…
HireEZ 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company HireEZ’s mission is to make outbound recruiting easy. We’re dedicated to helping recruiters proactively bring jobs to people and give them the recruiter-centric tools they need. That’s why we developed hireEZ (formerly Hiretual), an AI-powered outbound recruitment platform. With hireEZ, companies can execute a strategically scalable approach to build their workforce of…
Socrates 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Socrates.ai is a leading employee experience platform that builds on humanity in the best way possible – via real conversations in real-time – to deliver consumer experiences in the workplace. Socrates.ai leverages artificial intelligence to construct the conversational answers and information employees need. The omnichannel virtual assistant can be used on SMS,…
Reejig 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Reejig is a leading workforce intelligence platform that enables large-scale organizations to find, retain, and upskill talent at scale. Powered by the world’s first independently audited ethical AI, Reejig acts as your central nervous system for all talent decisions, helping you create a world with zero wasted potential. Reejig provides global executives…
Guild Education 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Guild Education is a social impact company that empowers American workers to unlock life-changing opportunities for personal and professional advancement through education, skill-building, and coaching. As a certified B-Corp founded to bridge the gap between education and employment for working adults in the U.S. in need of upskilling for the future of…
Videos, Interviews, and Podcasts
HR Tech for Midsize Companies: Featuring Namely on HR Tech Talks
If you’re a large enterprise, there are HR tools for you. If you’re a small company, there are HR tools for you. But what if you’re in a midsize company? In the past, employers with a few hundred up to a few thousand employees were in a kind of “no man’s land” when it came to HR tech. In this episode of HR Tech Talks, I’m going to talk with Larry Dunivan about how Namely tackles this challenge for employers.
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Connecting Healthcare Operations and Recruiting at Mercy on We’re Only Human
“It’s about understanding that workforce isn’t a recruiting job. It isn’t a leadership job. It’s everybody’s job. If you have needs in the workforce, you must communicate them. And the vehicle to do that is our recruiting team.” Betty Jo Rocchio, Chief Nursing Officer, Mercy We’re Only Human — Episode 109 One of the…
A More Holistic View for Hiring Talent: Featuring iCIMS on HR Tech Talks
Historically, hiring has been an external activity, and the tools were primarily focused on workflows and candidate intake. The modern hiring technology stack has to be more evolved in order to attract candidates, engage them in the employer brand, and convert them to excited applicants.
In this episode of HR Tech Talks, Ben talks with iCIMS about their evolution to Talent Cloud, a suite of products to help employers hire externally with tools like SMS and internally with their Advance module.
Job Boards and the Human Touch in Recruiting: Featuring ClearedJobs on HR Tech Talks
Putting the Human Touch into Recruiting Technology – When recruiting talent, balancing technology and the human touch is critical. Job boards aren’t new, but many may not realize how versatile they can be, or how to include a personal touch in their recruiting strategy.
Reimagining Talent Management in 2021: Featuring Plum on HR Tech Talks
2020 revealed cracks in our talent systems that many HR leaders already knew were there. In this episode, I will chat with Caitlin MacGregor, CEO of Plum, about 2021 being the year to make meaningful change when it comes to how organizations should think about, invest in, and optimize talent. Because if not now, then…
Democratizing Recruiting Automation: Featuring GoHire on HR Tech Talks
Recruiting automation may seem like an incredibly complex topic, but it doesn’t have to be. Since 2016 when GoHire launched its first recruiting chatbot on Facebook Messenger, they and other companies have been helping to bring employers and candidates together in simple, yet powerful ways. In this episode of HR Tech Talks, Ben will talk…
Let’s Solve Real Problems: Featuring Joyous on HR Tech Talks
One of the most challenging parts of HR technology is that it doesn’t always get buy in from the business. But there are tools available today that help to illuminate performance and productivity gaps, business-impacting issues, and more. In this discussion with Mike Carden, HR technology industry veteran and Cofounder of Joyous, we’ll look at…
Making Culture Tangible and Inclusive: Featuring Questback on HR Tech Talks
One of the biggest challenges people have with culture is that it’s often vague or unclear. Or, as is often the case, there is a gap between reality and what leadership thinks, creating friction for the organization in a variety of visible and invisible ways. This fuels not only innovation and growth, but a critical…
Engaging A Field-Based Workforce – Lessons From Nussbaum Transportation On We’re Only Human
“You can reconcile accounting, but you can’t always reconcile people.” Jeremy Stickling, Chief Administrative Officer at Nussbaum Transportation We’re Only Human — Episode 104 Turnover in some trucking and transportation companies runs nearly 100% a year, meaning they turn over virtually every employee over a 12 month period. But at Nussbaum, the turnover runs under…
HR Analyst Day *Podcast Takeover* Featuring Engagedly On We’re Only Human
“Be gentle with yourself. I think we can all afford a little compassion and we’re often able to give that to others easier than we’re able to give it to ourselves. Give yourself time for introspection to understand what truly motivates you and let that be your first step.” Kristin Richter, Engagedly We’re Only Human…
Technology Reviews
6 Technology Providers Supporting Culture, Engagement, and Employee Experience: Lighthouse Listens 2023
As part of our ongoing research efforts, our team meets with technology providers across the HR, talent, and learning space on a regular basis. Last month we held a special set of briefings as part of a culture, performance, engagement, and employee experience deep dive we called Lighthouse Listens. In it, we met with six…
Lighthouse Listens: 6 Innovative Talent Acquisition Technologies
As part of our ongoing research efforts, our team meets with technology providers across the HR, talent, and learning space on a regular basis. Last month we held a special set of briefings as part of a talent acquisition deep dive we called Lighthouse Listens. In it, we met with six different providers touching on…
Eightfold.ai 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company With a deep-learning AI platform and massive datasets (on more than a billion careers, representing much of the working world) companies can hire and manage a diverse, global workforce. This is especially important now, given the attention being paid to talent and how rapidly the skills needs of companies are changing; in…
Talroo 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Talroo is helping organizations like Uber, McDonald’s, UPS, The Home Depot, Target and more, find and hire their essential workforces. Our data-driven job and hiring event recruiting platform turns the Internet into a help wanted sign. With a pay-for-performance model, we enable customers to maximize efficiency and their budget to hire employees…
Lever 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company For a long time, hiring was a transactional process: moving from resume to interview, interview to offer, offer to first day in the office. In this world, applicant tracking systems supported traditional, inbound hiring needs. But today’s talent acquisition isn’t a transaction. It’s a dialog. A network of relationships among people —…
The State of Voice of the Employee and Enterprise Employee Feedback Survey Platforms
In the last few years, the workplace has transitioned from a focus just on employee surveys to a more continuous listening approach. This transition has also been branded in some cases as “voice of the employee,” since it opens a direct channel from the workforce to company leadership, giving workers a voice like never before.…
BrightHire 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company BrightHire is the world’s leading Interview Intelligence platform. We transform the quality of hiring for high-growth companies like Canva, Carta, Attentive, and Salesloft by helping individuals run better interviews and helping teams hire faster with less bias. Our technology rides along on Zoom, Google Meet and phone interviews, automatically records and transcribes…
Seekout 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company SeekOut is an AI-powered Talent 360 platform for Enterprise Talent Optimization that enables companies to quickly hire, grow, and retain talent while focusing on diversity, technical expertise, and other hard-to-find skillsets. SeekOut lets great companies and great people to grow together. Six out of 10 of the highest valued companies in the…
Sparrow 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Sparrow makes it simple for employers to care for their people with the first true end-to-end leave management solution where innovative technology is coupled with a world-class leave specialist team. This enables mid-market employers to reduce compliance risks, enhance the employee experience, operate better, and contain costs. The technology integrates with HRIS…
isolved Connect 2022: A Case Study in Customer Engagement
Nearly 40% bigger than last year, the isolved Connect 2022 user conference was held in Nashville and demonstrated that in many ways, client events are back from the COVID-required limitations put on many events. For those not familiar, isolved offers an HCM platform that supports employers from SMBs through enterprise, though their core market success…
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7 Compensation Practices of High-Performing Organizations [New Research]
Over the last few months we’ve been working on our 2023 Compensation Data and Technology Trends research that we update every two years. In this year’s findings, we uncovered some new areas of interest, from how and why companies adopt these technologies to how they are changing their use of data to support comp practices.…
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The State of Hiring in Financial Services: What’s Now and What’s Next [Report]
Within the context of this new report, we look at some of the specific data that apply to the financial services sector based on responses from talent leaders at those firms in our 2023 Talent Acquisition Trends study. Not only that—we’ll also pull in some candidate data points to highlight what candidates are looking for…
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The State of Hiring: How the Manufacturing Industry is Responding [Report]
“It’s the strangest thing I’ve ever seen in more than 25 years of recruiting.” This comment is probably one you have either heard or spoken yourself in the last year. From the shortage of qualified talent to historically low unemployment levels to layoffs at some companies, the hiring market seems to be sending mixed messages…
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Key Takeaways from the 2023 Performance, Engagement, and Culture Enablement Livestream
Recently we posted about our PEACE livestream session that we were hosting in conjunction with Quantum Workplace, HiBob, and Confirm. This session attracted more than a thousand HR and talent leaders and was an incredible success. Below we have drawn key insights from each speaker to share, including our research preview with me and our…
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Performance, Culture, and Employee Retention [Infographic]
Making work meaningful isn’t a pipe dream. It isn’t something that can’t happen. But it also doesn’t happen without intention and effort. Our latest research on PEACE – Performance, Engagement, and Culture Enablement is focused on how to do this in the modern workplace. (Hint: some things have changed, and others haven’t changed a bit!)…
Read More
What’s New in Employee Retention, Performance, and Culture? [Livestream]
On Thursday, August 10th, our team will be hosting a special livestream to look at our brand new data on Performance, Engagement, and Culture Enablement (PEACE). Based on 1,000 global workers, this study has some incredible insights on how employees feel about their experiences at work today, what employers need to do to support them,…
Read More
Biased, Burdensome, and Burnt Out: The Unlimited PTO Story [New Research]
Not too far in the past, a company that offered its workers an unfettered amount of paid leave would have seemed illogical at best. After all, the typical method of accruing paid leave over time was commonplace and widely accepted by employers and employees alike. But then a small minority of companies began to offer…
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HR Tech Awards 2023: Winners Announced
In our daily work with talent leaders and solution providers, we run into some incredible technology. Some of the tools available to organizations right now help them hire, develop, and retain their people, and the platforms and systems are amazing in their ability to support intelligent decisions, personalized actions, and more. According to some sources,…
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Newsflash: The Wellbeing of Your Workforce is Your Business [Infographic]
The last month has held a lot of travel for the team here at Lighthouse. From Unleash in Las Vegas to the HR Technologies UK event in London to the Responsible HR Forum in New York City, it’s been a whirlwind. It’s easy in those times to try to focus on productivity at all costs,…
Read More
Critical Success Factors For Attracting and Hiring in the Modern Environment [New Report]
Hiring moves quickly. That’s true in a practical/process sense, but it’s also true from a broader trends perspective. What works today is different in some ways from what worked two or five years ago. As we’ve been drawing insights from our new talent acquisition research (our first infographic on Pay Transparency, Ghosting, and Other TA…
Read More
3 Learning Trends for 2023: Talent Shortage, Manager Enablement, and Mental Health [New Report]
At the Learning Technologies UK event last week, I found in many conversations with learning professionals that they can get bogged down and frustrated by the continuous treadmill. Identify a need, build/acquire training, develop skills, measure outcomes, and repeat. That’s a simplified version of what our friends in talent development do every day. It’s not…
Read More
6 Technology Providers Supporting Culture, Engagement, and Employee Experience: Lighthouse Listens 2023
As part of our ongoing research efforts, our team meets with technology providers across the HR, talent, and learning space on a regular basis. Last month we held a special set of briefings as part of a culture, performance, engagement, and employee experience deep dive we called Lighthouse Listens. In it, we met with six…
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Lighthouse Listens: 6 Innovative Talent Acquisition Technologies
As part of our ongoing research efforts, our team meets with technology providers across the HR, talent, and learning space on a regular basis. Last month we held a special set of briefings as part of a talent acquisition deep dive we called Lighthouse Listens. In it, we met with six different providers touching on…
Read More
Women are 50% Less Likely to Have Visibility into Internal Career Opportunities [New Research]
Recently, the Japanese multinational Fujitsu was commended by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry for its efforts to encourage the success of women across its 100,000-plus workforce over the last year. This story is like many others, and employers around the globe are working to advance the number of opportunities for women in…
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First Look at 2023 Talent Acquisition Research: Pay Transparency, Ghosting, and More
Of all the aspects of human capital management, talent acquisition has seen a tremendous upheaval in the last three years. From a full stop in 2020 to full speed in 2021 and 2022, we’re now seeing some mixed signals about what the future holds. The essential piece is that small and midsize employers are hiring…
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