Blogs

2020 Singapore HRTech Market Map

Swechha Mohapatra
Senior Consultant-Digital HR, hrtech.sg
Apr 01, 2020

“Multiple factors accelerating the Digital HR adoption in Singapore including the Singapore Government’s productivity focus and the world’s largest work from home experiment”

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20 Non-traditional Job boards for Singaporean Job-seekers & Employers!

Sriram Iyer
Founder & CEO , hrtech.sg, hrtech.sg
Mar 13, 2020

“Beyond the traditional job boards, new-age HRTech tools are now available in abundance for both Singapore employers & job-seekers to connect!”

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Do you really know whom you hire?

Kannan Chettiar
Managing Director, Avvanz
Feb 20, 2020

“Hiring the “right fit” talents is onerous enough and all the more important to recruit talents who are “safe” and have “integrity”. Data shows that 35% of CVs or resumes have some form of discrepan...”

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Re-defining Recruitment with Instahiring!

Sanjoe Tom Jose
CEO, Talview
Dec 11, 2019

“Recruiters are experiencing a significant shift in the market that now prefers to hire professionals for ‘gigs’, rather than permanently. This shift can be accounted to the changing preference of t...”

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Employee Empowerment: A Business-Critical Requirement

Andy Davies
Vice President of APAC, People First
Nov 20, 2019

“The modern working environment has extra pressures that were not foreseen even just 10 years ago. We have a multi-generational employment landscape which creates its own tensions between groups of...”

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HR Onboarding: Drive Organizational Success Going Into 2020

Manuj Gupta
CEO , Orane Consulting (MyJoining)
Nov 07, 2019

“Onboarding provides Human Resources team with a gold mine of opportunities to engage their employees with relevant content about the company, get them assimilated culturally into the organization a...”

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Choosing the Right Champions: How ONA conquers the Change Adoption Trap

Francisco Marin Mayer
Co-founder & CEO, Cognitive Talent Solutions
Oct 15, 2019

“The influence of top informal leaders is 40% greater than the average influence of formal leaders. By positioning informal leaders as early adopters of strategic changes, executive teams can mitiga...”

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People First

Andrew Britton
Founder, 5QLive
Oct 03, 2019

“People are complicated, on all sides of the equation .. Too complicated for an algorithm as all variables on all sides are constantly changing, especially when building a team of different skills, ...”

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HRMS for SMEs: It's a need, not a want!

Sriram Iyer
Founder & CEO, hrtech.sg
Sep 26, 2019

“Digitalisation is for here to stay. And it is imperative for businesses of all shapes and sizes to use it to their benefit and jump onboard.”

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How Mobile Apps are Transforming Human Resources

KC Kwa
CEO, JustLogin
Aug 28, 2019

“HR managers spend a huge amount of time on paperwork and such processes can be integrated into an employee app, allowing more time for what they’d rather be doing: Strategic HR planning.”

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Simplifying Employee Bonus Programs

Naveen Veda
Co-founder, Laserbeam
Aug 16, 2019

“When we got to the details as to how they (enterprises) manage the (compensation) programs, it’s often on a spread sheet with formulae and macros. No wonder...”

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Will machines replace your job in the future?

Djoann Fal
Co-Founder & CEO, GetLinks
Jul 19, 2019

“In fact, a new term has been coined to describe the people that will take on this challenge – they are known as the Adaptive Talents. These Adaptive Talents...”

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Establishing Agility in HR

Nigel Lim
Co-Founder & CEO, Payboy
Jul 08, 2019

“There are many tools available online that can aid organisations in adopting agile practises for HR. My suggestion is to consistently test your policies to optimise for simplicity”

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6 months and the role is still open. Now what?

Tulika Tripathi
Founder, Snaphunt
Jun 28, 2019

“Once the role is out in the market for a long period of time, most candidates hesitate to consider it, as they believe something is ‘wrong’ with the role or the manager or the organization in general”

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Strategically Scaling HR with People Analytics

Daniel West
Founder & CEO, Panalyt
Jun 19, 2019

“Having stronger people analytics functions enables you to dig deeper into your people metrics to discover trends and insights. It is important for HR to have access to an integrated view of people ...”

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How to hire the right people, the right way and fast?

Riku Malkki
CEO, RecRight
Jun 05, 2019

“Using modern recruiting technology that provides a great candidate experience will help candidates see your company in a positive light, and thus improve your employer branding and make the whole p...”

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The interview is dead, long live the interview

Omer Molad
Co-Founder & CEO, Vervoe
May 22, 2019

“…we believe every candidate should have a chance to showcase their talent, not just some. This removes bias from th...”

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It’s About Time Recruitment Got Automated

Emmanuel Crouy
Co-Founder & CEO, GrabJobs
May 15, 2019

“By combining the power of targeted digital job ads with multi-channel job posting, you can reduce the amount of unqualified applicants ...”

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Recruitment Redefined: A Game-Changing Way to Attract Top Talent

Paul Keijzer
Co-founder & CEO, The Talent Games
May 07, 2019

“Gamification redefines recruitment by bringing science and fun to the art of recruitment. It introduces an exciting and equalizing element to ...”

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Is Machine Learning the recruitment Gamechanger we’ve been waiting for?

Shana Lynde
Co-founder & CMO, Janeous
Apr 29, 2019

“The great news is that machine learning can help you connect with applicants a lot earlier in the hiring process. Candidates don’t want ...”

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Performance Management – Desperately calling for Open Minds!!!

Souvik Majumdar
Founder & CCS, GroSum
Apr 22, 2019

“Since time immemorial, all great things we have achieved as a race have happened when we have acknowledged a problem, approached with an open ...”

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Unleash the Power of Teams

Rudi Ramin
Co-Founder and CEO, Grow
Apr 15, 2019

“…the workplace of today has shifted from the more traditional and hierarchical pyramid structure, to more empowered teams of teams. Due to ...”

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Snackable self-paced learning for the modern (deskless) worker

James Chia
Co-Founder & CEO, ArcLab
Apr 09, 2019

“The best form of training delivery is to downsize content into ‘snack-able’ modules - Nano Learning.These are housed on the cloud and readily ...”

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Onboarding should be a Pleasure, not a Pain.

Vijay Veera
Co-Founder & CEO, Digidesk
Apr 01, 2019

“Onboarding is a critical weakness for a majority of organizations that stalls new hire momentum. A poor onboarding experience ...”

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The Science of Hiring

Kek Sei Wee
CEO, IoTalents
Mar 25, 2019

“Predictive analytics for hiring uses modern data and assessment science to project candidates’ fit and likelihood for success based ...”

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Digitally Engage Your Mobile Workforce for Better Business Returns

Andy G. Schmidt
Founder & CEO, Beekeeper Communication
Mar 15, 2019

“The first step to engaging your mobile workforce is to find a digital communication tool that addresses your specific operations and ...”

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Dining Out On HR Technology

Richard Hanson
CEO, Jobable
Feb 18, 2019

“Of course, if we look at HR technology engagement, one could argue that every time a ‘user’ (diner) consumes a piece of your HR Technology ...”

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Performance Appraisal is NOT Performance Management. Make it continuous, make it holistic.

Shankar Krishnamoorthy
Co-Founder & CEO, Synergita
Feb 11, 2019

“For any organization that is moving from annual appraisal mode to continuous performance management, it is a change in culture. Organizations ...”

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The Tech Of Tomorrow is already here: Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

Team Wantedly
Jan 29, 2019

“Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed the global business environment as we know it, and this is most apparent through changes in traditional HR practices brought about by the emergence of cogn...”

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Ready! Get Set! BOT!

Jian Hong Tan
CEO & Co-Founder, Su-Ette
Jan 18, 2019

“The roles and functionality of Chatbots have advanced significantly, thanks to advancement in cloud computing powers. The question really is to have clarity of your Bot’s purpose and taking the fi...”

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Where’s the Human Touch in Recruiting?

Sujo John
Business Head, Monster.com
Jan 10, 2019

“Today tools such as AI and machine learning, video and chatbots will enable recruiters to find qualified candidates faster. But they can’t replace the human touch in recruiting.”

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HRTech Stack recommendations for Start-ups

Adrian Tan
HRTech Blogger
Jan 02, 2019

“Every employer aspires to keep their employees engaged and empower them by providing the best-in-class work environment.”

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Creating a Culture Of Wellness

Chris Teo
CEO, Mednefits
Dec 26, 2018

“Effectiveness of wellness strategies differ based on the company culture.”

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Technology & Culture: Two sides of the same coin

DN Prasad
Founder & Executive Coach, Noetic Step
Dec 17, 2018

“The biggest risk that we run with digitalisation is that it is the perfect recipe for the cultural fabric to get weaker, if not executed and ...”

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Singapore’s HRTech Start-ups attract more VC funding in Sep 2018!

Nov 01, 2018

“As Singapore Inc adopts HRTech solutions rapidly, start-ups focusing on this sector in Singapore are buzzing with activity. There are over 100 HRTech startups - many with a roaster of local and gl...”

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100 HRTECH Start-ups in singapore and still counting

Oct 29, 2018

“Singapore has a thriving job market. But, its employee turnover rate is among the highest in Asia Pacific. According to a 2018 report of Workday, 46% of Singaporean employees are planning to leave ...”

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