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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait joins George LaRocque on WorkTech to discuss the recent $500 million mega-deal with the TPG Growth and Rise funds. Learn about:

• The Rise fund's focus on social impact and how Greenhouse fits from a fair and equitable hiring perspective.

Larry Dunivan, CEO of Namely joins HRWins Founder George LaRocque for a revealing interview about leading an HR tech scaleup through the COVID-19 crisis. The result is an incredibly transparent conversation with Larry sharing the difficult decisions he, like CEOs and leaders around the world, have had to make. Get a unique view of how a CEO at a high-growth HR technology scale-up has navigated the challenges brought on by COVID-19 for the tech provider and its many customers. 

Join George LaRocque of HRWins as he looks at the current state and future of assessments with SHL's CEO, Andy Bradshaw. The two discuss SHL leaving Gartner and becoming independent again, how assessments and their role have changed, predictive analytics, the use of AI in assessments, and more.

On the morning of Monday, November 4, Symphony Talent the recruitment marketing services and technology firm formerly known as Hodes announced its acquisition of Smashfly Technologies, recruitment marketing and CRM platform for large enterprise employers. That afternoon Symphony CEO Roopesh Nair joined Madeline Laurano of Aptitude Research and George LaRocque of HRWins in the Talent Product Plays (TPP) Facebook group to discuss the deal. That conversation is now available to you here on the HR MarketWatch podcast.

Learn why Symphony Talent chose Smashfly, where there is alignment and overlap in the product offerings, what customers of both firms can expect, what we should expect in the Symphony roadmap moving forward, and more...

Here's one for every startup founder, co-founder, or leader. For every leader in an established business that understands that the culture they foster will impact business results more than almost anything else. In the latest HR MarketWatch FutureWork Podcast, hear from Damon Klotz the Work Culture Evangalist at Culture Amp. He came to the interview with a sense of transparency that we've come to expect from Culture Amp. He shares the challenges of scaling culture and employee engagement in a high growth setting, and he uses the experience at Culture Amp as his framework. He also brings real data from a real customer. This is 30 minutes I wish I could sneak into every business leader's day. Enjoy.

SmartRecruiters, a cloud based recruiting technology platform including ATS, CRM, recruitment marketing, sourcing, and more announced a $50 Million Series D round of venture capital today. Join HRWins Analyst George LaRocque as he discusses the raise with SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternyck. 

Learn why they raised this funding now, what their plans are for the funding, what both investors and customers can expect for value as a result of the funding, and for the tech entrepreneurs listening - find out what pearls of wisdom Jerome would pass on to you, having taken one company to exit, and now SmartRecruiters through Series D.  

Montage, known for its digitized on demand and live interviews, automated scheduling, and integrated assessments and Shaker International, known for its "virtual job tryouts" and assessment science have announced a merger. Both vendors are known for working with large employers at scale, embedding innovative technologies like AI, machine learning, automation, and predictive data science into hiring. This deal looks like one that can have a big impact on the "post-apply" part of the recruiting tech stack. Join HRWins Principal Analyst George LaRocque along with Montage CEO Kurt Heikkinen and Shaker International CEO Brian Stern, as they discuss this deal, and the future of the new Montage/Shaker entity and the future of recruiting in the large enterprise.

HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque looks at how AI and automation are being leveraged today and where this tech is quickly headed. HRWins looked at other tech segments that are adopting AI-driven platforms of engagement and relates key capabilities back to recruiting. Success won't be found in "boxing out" the recruiter from the process, but more likely enabling both candidates and recruiters with "conversational platforms. Meet CEO and founder of TalkPush, Max Armbruster, one of the innovators in recruiting AI, developer of a conversational platform including messaging and CRM.

HRWins Principal Analyst and Founder George LaRocque looks at one of the most significant opportunities for disruption in HR technology today: reinventing assessments and selection to make hiring both more inclusive and more effective. Join George as he explores this topic and catches up with Omer Molad Founder and CEO of Vervoe, an intelligent hiring platform that uncovers hidden talent through real-world tests, tasks, and tools designed by leading industry experts. Vervoe replaces face-to-face interviews with Talent Trials, leveraging AI to identify the best hires.

Making the business case to buy new, or replace existing, HR technology can be a daunting task. That's probably why we spend a lot of our time at HRWins with employers on this topic and do recurring research on it. HRWins recently asked 1,000 U.S. business leaders, in and outside of HR, how they see the value of HCM and HR tech across 17 different categories.

Do you know which kind of return on investment (ROI) metrics your CFO or CEO responds to best? Do you know how they and the rest of your exec team perceive the value of the HR technology you want to implement?  The results are in our latest report: Making Your Business Case for HR Software.

Join George LaRocque of HRWins as he explores the business value of HR technology and some of the insights in the new report with guest Tom Hammond VP of Corporate Strategy and Product Management at Paychex. Tom is one of the leaders behind the new Paychex Flex cloud HCM platform. He shares some things about Paychex you probably didn't realize. 

Download the report from its sponsor, Paychex, here.