Hackajob Gets a New Name, UKG Adds Voice

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2:05The major occupation drops including office administrative support occupations, experienced the largest drop, almost 10,000 jobs followed by installation maintenance and repair and production. Next, UKG has introduced several new AI driven capabilities aimed at supporting frontline workforces, accelerating bulk recruitment and preventing costly payroll discrepancies. Key among these updates is UKG bright voice. A voice enabled assistant integrated with UKG pro that allows desk list staff such as retail and healthcare workers to execute routine tasks like checking schedules or reading time cards or updating direct deposit information, hands free of the Assyri or Google Assistant. That's pretty cool. Port Talent Acquisition, the platform now provides AI assisted high volume hiring tools including Canada job recommendations, profile summaries and a bulk apply workflow out capable of processing up to one of our applicants simultaneously. Finally, UKG rolled out agent pay which allows administrators to examine historical pay

3:05data and resolve discrepancies before processing payroll through natural language queries to eliminate costly errors. At a Toronto 7 shifts, the restaurant HR platform now is the launch of employee training, a restaurant specific training solution built directly into 7 shifts. The new offering gives restaurants a simple, simple way to train their team without adding another standalone tool. The launch expands 7 shifts role across the restaurant employee lifecycle bringing hiring, onboarding training, scheduling pay and retention together in one platform. Formerly known for scheduling and payroll, 7 shifts is now fully evolved into a comprehensive HR platform for restaurants. Quarappers are done paying for separate software to hire onboard trained schedule and pay their staff. They want one system for the entire HR employee lifecycle. Not a patchwork of tools that don't talk to each other, but Jordan Bosch, chief executive officer at 7 shifts. As we went all in one place, teams get stronger faster and managers get time back to develop

4:06and develop their people. In HR take partnership news, we got 3-4 here, match 2, the platform powering the universal Canada profile announced that it's connected town solutions is now available on the SAP store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. Each up a leader in town acquisition software and SAPIA, a pioneer in conversational AI, announced in enhanced strategic partnership based on their established relationship. The deep integration links SAPIA's autonomous skills based interviewing with PageUp's newly advanced AI functionality. And Amazon Web Services and ADP, announced an expanded partnership as well, partnership affirmed AWS as ADAP strategic cloud provider enabling its continued AI transformation and ongoing innovation of a and an agentech AI solutions for more than 1.1 million clients across 140 countries and territories. And finally, the CEO of Hackajob, Mark Chaffee shared a link today that the company will now be known as its core product name, Archer, over a decade of building technology focused

5:09on giving Kennis a great experience in helping companies find a talent they need as let us hear, he says. Archer is the most at-scale AI agent for both sides of hiring and we're only just getting started. You can check it out at mearcher.com is the new brand name. Let's hear for this episode of this week in Rectake, part of the Purple E-Core Network. To all your stories and more, go to hrtectv.com, sign up for the daily alerts and check out other news sites, creating headlines.com and hrnewsfeed.com for stories and those sectors. For Rectake Media, I'm Chris Russell reporting. Thanks for listening. YAMAMABAH Resort and Casino at Sandman Well is bringing the biggest laughs to the stage. Rectake taboo is with Ali Wang on August 28th and 29th. Enjoy Ralph Barbosa's Dry Humor on September 18th and 19th. And don't miss Nikki Glazers on Apologetic Comedy November 19th. Tickets on sale now at YAMAMABAH Theatre dot com. Only at YAMAMABAH Resort and Casino, celebrating its 40th anniversary. You in must be 21 to enter.