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Change Management Made Easy: The Brotherly Love Electric Story

Newcomer Ezra Mowery was excited to get started in his new role at Brotherly Love Electric. With a focus on inventory management, he was ready to go. And that’s when he met Ply.Turns out the business had already been implementing Ply here and there, which left Ezra with two key issues to face: his own learning curve and figuring out how to implement the platform within the business’ own system – meaning warehouse and team.“When I first came in, I knew zero information about anything Ply, anythin...
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Top 4 Trades and HVAC Trends for 2025

As 2024 draws to a close, we’re stepping into 2025 with fresh anticipation for what’s ahead. One sign that gives us optimism? Mortgage rates have shown a promising decline—from 7.79% in October 2023 to 6.12% a year later—sparking hope for many aspiring homeowners.


With this shift, tradespeople and HVAC professionals will play a pivotal role in transforming these houses into comfortable, efficient dream homes. So, what key trends should the industry prepare for in 2025? Let’s have a look.


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European Central Bank's Path to Continuous Talent Growth

“We need to be able to attract and retain talented people and support their continuous growth while fostering respect, diversity and well-being at work.” That was the goal for European Central Bank (ECB). And it’s one that resonates with companies everywhere. But transforming that vision into a reality without burdening talent teams? That was the real challenge.

When brainstorming solutions, they knew the path forward involved investing in highly configurable technology that would adapt to thei
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Unlocking the Power of Learning Software

In today’s digital era, the business landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace. To thrive, organizations must embrace digital transformation, making technology a cornerstone of growth, innovation and competitiveness.

However, the path to digital success isn’t without its challenges. Ninety-three percent of organizations are concerned about employee retention and one of the key drivers of turnover is a lack of learning and upskilling opportunities. With our guide, we’ll help you navigate th
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Your New Hire Onboarding Best Practices Checklist

The right onboarding strategy can provide companies with benefits that persist throughout the entire talent lifecycle. This is why it’s vital to get the first steps of a new hire’s journey right. Companies everywhere need to think long and hard about what they want their onboarding processes to look like.

All successful onboarding strategies have a number of key elements in common, including:

Are you looking to up your new hire onboarding game? Download our onboarding checklist and discover ho
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The Three Steps to BMC’s Onboarding Success

In the past two years, BMC’s business has grown exponentially with a 105 percent increase in hires. Looking at the current talent landscape, they soon realized they were facing fierce competition and a difficulty in converting qualified candidates into the new hires they needed.

With a higher volume to cope with, they were soon experiencing:
• An eight-day increase in time to offer.

BMC quickly understood it was time to go back to the drawing board. They weren’t getting offers into candidates’
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Recruitment ROI: Lessons from Epic’s Success

Epic has inspired fellow customers for over seven years, using Avature to drive innovative and creative problem-solving. Their talent team showcases their recruitment ROI by crafting a clear, holistic strategy across talent acquisition and talent management while leveraging reporting capabilities to track the performance of each initiative.

As a 12,000-employee software company, Epic has high expectations of the technology it uses to drive business value and deliver the experience candidates wa
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How Epic Turned New Hire Onboarding Into a Candidate Experience Dream

Looking to improve the new hire experience, Epic set a goal to make it as seamless and engaging as possible, striving to connect new hires while saving time by automating processes.

As most of their efforts concentrate on campus recruitment, many new employees are hired four to twelve months before starting. The challenge? Keeping them excited and engaged about their future career at Epic.

Founded in 1979 by a software developer, Epic Systems is a healthcare software company that has been cont
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How World Duty Free Aced the High-Volume Hiring Experience

In early 2020, UK-based World Duty Free was fresh off of a record-breaking year, generating £1 billion in sales primarily through 25 UK airport shops. They were growing, innovating and developing new customer experiences with over 4,000 employees in retail, logistics and headquarters roles.

The pandemic sent them nose-diving, with sales plummeting from £100 million a month to zero, forcing them to shut down their operations for three months and furlough 96 percent of their workforce. Such was t
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How Pontoon Harnessed the Power of Agile Performance Management

In 2018, Jenna Dobbins, Global Head of HR at Pontoon Solutions, gathered with her team to rethink how they handled their performance management process.

With an urgent need to evolve their process into one that would generate engagement and put transparency and trust as key drivers, Pontoon looked to Avature to help make this vision a reality. Their new and improved performance management system allowed for regular feedback and adaptability, transforming their paper-based approach into an acces
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What CHROs Need to Know About ChatGPT

What is Chat GPT and How Does It Work?

Developed by OpenAI, a Silicon Valley-based venture-funded research company that intends to commercialize AI, ChatGPT is what is known as a “language machine”. Through deep learning techniques like reinforcement and statistics, it can answer questions and prompts posed by users.

Though it doesn’t necessarily understand the meaning of each word, it provides a very clear and human-like statement that can be used as a starting point. But while the masses’ re
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#Upfront US 2022 - Top Trends and Takeaways

After two years of digital conferences, we finally got to meet again in person and the excitement was palpable. HR leaders shared inspiring stories of how their organizations are tackling today’s talent challenges with Avature and attendees tuned in to engaging sessions with our onsite experts. The notable buzz during coffee breaks, lunch and evening soirees highlighted the best this conference offers: the animated Avature community sharing valuable ideas and experiences.

In case you couldn’t a
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The Future of Work: Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

For years, we’ve all been picturing the future of work like something out of a Ridley Scott movie. But it turns out that tomorrow is already here, and it’s more than just robots completing tasks.

Recent events have led to significant changes not only in our personal lives but also in the workplace. There’s a renewed focus on a crucial factor that has existed in the margins until now: people.

This new people-centric approach has led companies to analyze employees’ happiness at work and what lea
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The Top HR Trends in the UK to Look Out For in 2022

There’s a “slowly but surely” atmosphere when it comes to the recovery of the labour market in the UK. Job vacancies hit a record 1.1 million between July and September of 2021, which demonstrates greater levels of business confidence. At the same time, unemployment rates in the UK have been steadily declining these last few months, a trend set to continue in the coming year.

In the context of Covid, the government’s furlough scheme played a crucial role in protecting jobs. Now, it’s up to HR t
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Transforming Candidate Search with Scalable Sourcing AI

Artificial Intelligence has finally gone mainstream. But AI is more than just a shiny buzzword that can entice customers. The recruiting and sourcing AI paradox is real, and while many are struggling to understand how exactly to connect the data dots and put it all into practice in a scalable way, we’ve been working on how to make a better and more effective use of our AI-powered system.

After such change brought on this last year and a half, pretty much everyone seems to agree that the top pri
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The Top HR Trends to Look Out For in 2022

As 2021 comes to a close, HR and talent management leaders are looking at 2022 as a blank canvas, full of possibilities and potential. Emergency policies implemented in the HR world during the past year and a half are not all necessarily here to stay. Some are being discarded and others are being adapted or implemented into HR strategies for this new “world order” we’re coming to.

Now more than ever before, HR departments and companies in general are looking to technology to help them out, auto
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How Digital Transformation Drives Federal HR

When it comes to competing for talent, the stakes have never been higher. With private companies stocking their offices with snacks, slides and offering in-company meals as well as work-from-home benefits, the public sector is realizing it’s falling behind…and fast.

But it’s not just about flexible work models and company merchandise. The private sector has upped its technology game as well. Driven by ever-evolving needs, companies have wielded hardware and software to save time and deal with t
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One Platform, Infinite DEI Possibilities

When it comes to hot topics in the HR sphere, DEI is no stranger to that category. But why does it remain top of mind, year after year in companies worldwide? Well, it all comes down to employees feeling like they belong, allowing for engagement and retention in the long run.

If we were paying attention, this is a lesson that Disney taught us back in the day! Hercules himself (the cartoon version) sang: “I would go most anywhere to feel like I belong”. And so would company employees. If they fe
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Hybrid Work Model Edition

As vaccines are being made more available to countries around the world and the fog of uncertainty starts to dissipate, companies are beginning to ask their employees to return to the office. Plans are being drafted and strategies are debated throughout boards and management in order to find the best model that works for everyone involved.

In the context of several Evanta CHRO USA meetings, our CEO, Dimitri Boylan, asked various HR leaders about their companies’ new work model plans and what th
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Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Rabih Zbib

Like Birkin bags for the rich and famous, everyone wants artificial intelligence. From chatbots to autonomous vehicles, AI has taken the world by storm. In the strategic talent landscape, the applications of artificial intelligence for HR are still somewhat new, but demand keeps getting higher.

Companies and vendors work every day to better understand how AI will affect their strategies and how it can be used to boost them as well as help out their clients.

During a recent conversation, our re
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Level Up: Employee Engagement in the New Era

When talking about historical events, we used to define timelines and situations as BC and AD. Since Covid arrived, our focus has shifted to the BP and AP eras (Before Pandemic and After Pandemic), and in the strategic HR market, this is certainly the case! As medical breakthroughs keep on coming, we’re slowly inching our way towards the After Pandemic era. So what is this moment in time starting to look like for company employees everywhere?

Our CEO Dimitri Boylan sat down with Molson Coors’ C
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