🛒SAP to Acquire SmartRecruiters, Expanding Its HR Tech Portfolio

🛒HR Trends: SAP to Acquire SmartRecruiters, Expanding Its HR Tech Portfolio

SAP is set to acquire SmartRecruiters, a San Francisco-based HR software company known for its recruiting and applicant tracking tools. The acquisition aims to strengthen SAP’s position in the talent acquisition space, especially as demand rises for more agile, user-friendly hiring platforms. SmartRecruiters brings capabilities that complement SAP’s existing SuccessFactors suite, adding depth in areas like candidate relationship management and collaborative hiring workflows. Read more.

🎧 HR Insights

Disruption has become a constant, and organisations must rethink how they are structured to keep up. In a recent conversation, Kylie Saunders and Melissa Martin of WorkTrybe explain how organisational design should align with both current realities and future goals. Rather than treating it as a one-off project, they advocate for a dynamic approach—one that responds to shifting roles, skill needs, and employee expectations.

💡 HR Tips & Tricks

Tip of the Day: Give employees a self-paced development tracker. Let them log goals, progress, and training completions on their own terms—then use those logs during reviews to drive better conversations.

Trick of the Day: Send hiring managers a “candidate summary” email the morning of the interview. Include highlights from resumes, notes from HR, and reminders about structured questions. It saves time and boosts interview quality.

🧾 HR Case Files - Andersen Consulting Leverages Omni HR for Organisational Growth

Andersen Consulting has partnered with Omni HR Consulting to boost its internal organisational development initiatives. Facing growing project complexity and evolving client needs, the firm turned to Omni for help building stronger talent pipelines and upskilling employees at all levels.

Key Takeaways

• Partnering with an external HR consultancy can reveal blind spots in development strategies.

• Customised learning aligned to actual business needs boosts employee relevance and retention.

• Leadership coaching can amplify the impact of skills training across teams.

🧰 HR Toolbox

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Resource of the Day

A new paper in The International Journal of Human Resource Development explores how internal knowledge sharing impacts organisational learning. It finds that many HR teams still lack structured mechanisms to transfer insights between units, which slows innovation and impacts decision-making. This study calls for more intentional knowledge management, including communities of practice, learning audits, and formal knowledge-sharing protocols. It also identifies barriers such as siloed structures and time constraints. For HR leaders, the message is clear: learning isn’t just individual—it must be organisational, consistent, and measurable.

Event of the Day

The HR Technology Conference returns to Las Vegas from Sep 16-18, with sessions focused on AI integration, future-of-work models, and employee-centric platforms. As the largest global event in HR tech, it brings together product leaders, CHROs, and consultants to discuss how technology can solve pressing workforce issues.

For event details and registration, visit the website. 

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