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This Week

 

This week, Cornerstone Names Heidi Spirgi as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Shaker International and Montage Merge, Criteria Corporation Announces Majority Growth Investment from Sumeru Equity Partners, plus Mercer and ServiceNow Join to Launch Mobility Management Platform. Topics: Assessments, Recruiting, Talent Mobility, and Learning

 

• Cornerstone Names Heidi Spirgi as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Link »


• Shaker International and Montage Merge Link »


• Criteria Corporation Announces Majority Growth Investment from Sumeru Equity Partners Link »


• Mercer, ServiceNow Join to Launch Mobility Management Platform Link »


• Topics: Assessments, Recruiting, Talent Mobility, and Learning

Transcript

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SPEAKERS

John Sumser

Stacey Harris

FULL TRANSCRIPT

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Good morning and welcome to HR Tech Weekly, one step closer with Stacey Harris and John Sumser.

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Hi Stacy.

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Good morning John. How are you doing today?

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I’m great. You are just back from China. You are a world traveler just back from China. And unpacking your bag to do the laundry so that you could head off to Europe.

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That is correct. Yeah I just came back from China on Saturday. I will be heading off

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In another week to talent’s off a conference event in Barcelona.

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Yeah I’ve been a year of international travel this year though.

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But but I want to say it’s good to be home for a week.

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You don’t know how much you miss home until you’re gone for a little while and then you come home and you’re like oh it’s so nice to be in my own bed and see my own backyard. So. So this week’s good I’m home this week. So how about you. Your

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Your home is all right. I know it was well I’m deep in the research for the next report which means I am consuming

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Demos of intelligence software and an extraordinary rate. I am a lot of companies and talking to a lot of people about how they are employing intelligent tools in their business. And it’s different than I would have imagined. We’ll talk about some of the things that are going on in Lewis just today. So

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Let’s dig in.

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Well it’s definitely been a busy I mean so we are catching up a little bit since we were on our trip and I just got back from Shanghai. So there’s a lot that you know sort of recovering both from this week but also from previous weeks. But some of the biggest news has to do with I think you know mergers acquisitions and money. We got a couple of announcements about some of our colleagues moving around in the market. So cornerstone cornerstone which many everyone will be at the same time that I am in Barcelona. There’s a question convergence event which everybody has gone to for years and years and is the wonderful event they’ve just named Heidi speared me as their chief marketing and strategy officer.

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So it’s well worth talking a little bit about her and her background and how that might have an impact on cornerstone. We also saw some huge investments in the last couple of weeks. Fiver filed to go public. For those to follow fiber they’re freelance marketplace and is putting the revenues of seventy five point five million. So that’s something to watch and keep an eye on. We saw a merger and acquisition between shake her international and montage. I know you followed montage for quite some time John. I followed Shaker international since the beginning of their sort of startup because I was you know originally in the Cleveland Ohio market.

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That’s my hometown and that’s where they’re from and so I’ve been following them actually as a customer many many years ago. So it’s good to see them taking off. We’re also that criteria Corp. announcing some investments in a huge investment 60 56 million strategic investment in their staff based employment analytics platforms. We can talk a little bit about that. There’s another hundred million dollar inves