Harver has acquired Symphony Talent to build a worldwide Talent Intelligence Solution for organizations moving into the age of artificial intelligence. Harver is a world leader in predictive talent assessment and reference checking, while Symphony Talent is a specialist in recruitment marketing, employer branding, and candidate relationship management. The companies will now offer one seamless solution throughout the talent acquisition process. The new platform will seek to fill gaps that existed in separate point solutions. It will assist organizations in improving quality of hire, time to hire, and cost to hire.
“The talent acquisition market is being reshaped by AI, skills-based hiring, and a wave of candidate fraud that’s changing what it means to know who you’re hiring,” said Sean Barry, CEO of Harver. “Bringing Symphony Talent into Harver gives employers around the world a single, connected solution built for that shift, from workforce planning to on-the-job performance.”
Combined Talent Intelligence Capabilities
The merged company will address the entire process of talent acquisition. The offerings will include workforce planning, job understanding, employer branding, and EVP creation.
Moreover, the offering will cater to career sites, talent communities, search, and programmatic advertising. The offering will further comprise candidate relationship management, assessments, reference checks, and fraud detection. Skills matching, data, and analytics will tie all these stages to hiring and workforce outcomes. Consequently, employers will be able to find the right talent sooner in the process.
Harver has leveraged the power of assessment science on millions of candidates around the world. The technology has produced more than 100 million skills insights for individuals. At the same time, Symphony Talent has considerable experience in recruitment marketing and employer branding. As a result, the firms provide services to more than 1,500 clients across the globe.
As a consequence, the consolidated entity will employ over 300 people globally. Symphony Talent has more than 50 years of industry expertise. Finally, Harver has more than 35 years of proven assessment science. Thus, Talent Intelligence Solution unites industry expertise with skills data.
Supporting the Future of Hiring
The talent acquisition landscape is evolving at an incredible pace. Organizations are facing ongoing challenges of recruiting talented employees against the backdrop of the rise of skills-based hiring. AI is revolutionizing recruitment through regulations, changes in job functions, and candidate fraud. In such conditions, organizations are looking for trusted platforms to integrate talent data across the hiring process.
With the merger of skill data with recruitment marketing and candidate engagement, Harver and Symphony Talent seek to enhance their hiring process. The Talent Intelligence Solution will also assist organizations in forming better talent communities and networks. The newly-formed organization will be financed by Rubicon Technology Partners.
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News Source: Businesswire
