Tom's Notes:
The SaaS market in Human Resources is getting more crowded all the time—but just a few years ago, it wasn’t unusual for Glenn Donaldson to meet with prospects who had never even heard of software as a service. At that time, Glenn and intelliHR founder Rob Bromage saw a distinct gap in the market. Hardly anyone was leveraging all of their valuable HR data to add value and make their organizations better.
Their philosophy? The best software doesn’t simply collect data; it uses that data to proactively identify critical insights.
Gathering data helps, but even the best data is useless if you aren’t sure how to use it. Using data well means going a step beyond collecting and collating data. If you go no further than speeding up the collection process, or replicating lines on a spreadsheet because you’re used to seeing them, you’re missing out in a big way.
One of the core benefits we see in HR SaaS is communal learning. The more data we have, the more SaaS products can improve to help other organizations identify and solve similar challenges. More and more businesses are changing the structure of HR to include recruitment marketing and talent acquisition teams, but smaller teams don’t always have the resources for that much specialization.
HR is still often treated as an administrative branch of an organization, but that’s starting to change. More and more, HR teams help drive business decisions rather than simply implement them.
Previous episodes:
Episode 18 - How to Create Content That Recruits For You
Episode 17 - How the Right Assessments Can Help You Win The War For Talent
Episode 16 - The Case For Talent Acquisition as a Core Strategy
