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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
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…
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…
It’s HERE! My New Talent Scarcity Book is ***Free*** For a Limited Time
Over the last year as companies struggled to find good people to hire and fought at the same time to keep their best staff, I knew there had to be a story there. I began digging into the data and found some surprising and potentially alarming details: there is a real talent shortage globally, and…
2022 Was Another Record Year for HR Tech: See 20+ M&A Activities that Shaped the Market
Last year one of our most popular posts on the blog was a recap of some of the 2021 M&A activities across the HR Tech landscape. When you juxtapose that with the fact that 2021 was the biggest year ever for the HR technology market in terms of investment, we just couldn’t go without sharing…
What Frontline Workers Care About in 2023 [Infographic]
With all of the news focusing on layoffs and potential economic challenges, it might surprise you to hear that employers hiring frontline staff are still struggling to find enough people to fill all of their open positions. In 2023, these challenges will continue, but employers that understand what the frontline workforce needs will be able…
New Research: What Learners Want Most in 2023 [Infographic]
When it comes to hiring, employers spend a good bit of time learning and understanding what their candidates are looking for. We want to make sure our organizations are appealing and attractive. However, I’ve found that on the learning side, we’re a little less proactive. We don’t always have or gather information about what our…
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
We’re Only Human 77: Implementing The Agile Talent Acquisition Methodology At BBVA
Agile talent acquisition? What’s that? Many of the talent leaders we encounter have heard of agile as it pertains to the software development industry, but what lessons does this methodology have for today’s talent leaders? Agile, at its core, is about prioritizing (ruthlessly) on the things that need to get done. In agile talent acquisition,…
We’re Only Human 78: Families First Coronavirus Response Act – What Employers Need To Know
“Here’s my general advice for businesses–don’t be afraid to get help.” In recent weeks a flurry of legislative activity has led to numerous laws to help employers and businesses dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act is a big part of the activity. What does this law mean for employers,…
We’re Only Human 79: How Employers Are Responding To Shutdowns, Quarantines, And Coronavirus
“As the head of HR, I’m now suddenly expected to be a doctor, virologist, and epidemiologist.” That quote came from a discussion with an HR leader in the last few days, and it clearly outlines what many companies are going through right now. In today’s conversation, Ben talks with Brett Meager of Paycor to learn…
We’re Only Human 80: 11+ Ideas To Engage And Support Your Remote Teams
In recent weeks the podcast has covered critical topics like the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and how HR technology providers are supporting businesses during this time. Today, we’re going to take a step toward engaging those workers that are working remotely, many of them doing so for the first time. In this solo episode,…
We’re Only Human 81: Rethinking Work, Productivity, And Engagement In The Modern Workplace
“People don’t want flexibility. they want complete control over their time.” Today, we keep hearing that flexible work is the way to go. People want it. They crave it. Yet in today’s episode of We’re Only Human, Ben talks with Jody Thompson, creator of the ROWE movement. ROWE stands for “results only work environment,” and…
We’re Only Human 83: Balancing Candidate Experience and Objective Hiring With AI
“The assessment traditionally has seemed a bit disconnected from the job role. This can come across as friction. You’ve worked hard to find a candidate and you want them to join–this can seem disjointed.” Jora Gill, SHL Hiring is a balancing act. We want to drive candidates into the funnel, create positive experiences, and bring…
We’re Only Human 84: Job Seeker Nation Report Shows Anxiety and Opportunity
“And then the other piece of it was just the fear of losing a job increased dramatically… So the top line headline was one of anxiety in the marketplace.” Jeff Rohrs, Jobvite In recent months things have turned upside down not just for many employers but for job seekers as well. In this episode Ben…
We’re Only Human 85: Stop Apologizing For Being In HR
“We need to own what we do. We’ve been apologizing and apologetic for being in HR instead of owning what we do. Every other profession says, I’m a salesperson, I’m a finance person. I’m a marketer. We go, I’m sorry. I’m in HR.” Steve Browne In this conversation, a replay from the most popular session…
We’re Only Human 86: Working On The HR Tasks That Matter With Amit Parmar
“What really excites someone to join a company? Why do they stay at the company? Every person you talk to has a different story.” Amit Pamar, HR executive at Unisys This conversation happened at IAMPHENOM, one of the last live events prior to the COVID-19 shutdown. In today’s episode, Ben interviews Amit Parmar, an HR executive…
We’re Only Human 87: This Company Screens Thousands Of Candidates To Improve Inclusive Hiring Outcomes
“That hiring maanger still has a view of the candidate’s abilities and skills without being exposed to their race, gender, or ethnicity.” Scot Sessions, Talvista Did you know that there are nearly 200 cognitive biases that affect our decisions every day? While a decision about where to eat or what to wear is unlikely to…
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…
See the Latest from Lighthouse Research & Advisory
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,…
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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…
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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…
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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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IAMPHENOM 2023: Back and More Innovative than Ever
In our latest talent acquisition research study (join our upcoming livestream to be the first to see the findings), we see a dramatic growth in the number of employers that are not just comfortable in using intelligent automation in hiring, but that also say recruiting automation technologies are adding real value to their talent and business…
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Is Mentoring Outdated in Today’s Workplace?
The workplace is where people go to earn a living, be productive, and learn new skills, so why not use it as a way to develop your employees at the same time? Mentoring someone in the workplace can help them grow professionally while also benefiting their manager with stronger ties to the organization. By the…
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49% of Employers with Recruitment Process Outsourcing Relationships Plan to Change this Year
In our partnership with the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA) in 2022, we jointly published a research report that examined how hundreds of RPO buyers were prioritizing relationships, types of services, and more. In a world where recruiting and talent shortages were a constant reality, business leaders told us some incredible things about how they…
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It’s HERE! My New Talent Scarcity Book is ***Free*** For a Limited Time
Over the last year as companies struggled to find good people to hire and fought at the same time to keep their best staff, I knew there had to be a story there. I began digging into the data and found some surprising and potentially alarming details: there is a real talent shortage globally, and…
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How to Manage Frontline Employee Turnover
Frontline Workplaces: Experiencing High Turnover? The Cause May Be Your Manager It’s no secret that industries with frontline workers are struggling to hire and retain talent. Frontline positions require workers to perform their job in person, which talent may view as a drawback in a competitive labor landscape where many industries offer hybrid or remote…
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Heads Up: These Employees Have Zero Interest in Learning and Career Growth
We often hear that learning and development is one of the keys to retaining employees, because they value it so much. But what about those employees who have virtually no interest in learning? In our new learning research, we see that employees who score themselves as low on the belonging spectrum are eight times more…
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