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HR Departments Begin Fall Planning — Key Priorities for Q4
Author: Sr. Correspondent, HR Tech / Workforce Strategy As organizations wind down Q3, HR departments across the country are shifting into fall planning mode. The priorities that defined the first half of 2026 — skills-based hiring pilots, AI tool evaluation, and pandemic-era policy reviews — are now maturing into operational programs that will shape the…
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HR Departments Begin Fall Planning — Key Priorities for Q4
Author: Sr. Correspondent, HR Tech / Workforce Strategy As organizations wind down Q3, HR departments across the country are shifting into fall planning mode. The priorities that defined the first half of 2026 — skills-based hiring pilots, AI tool evaluation, and pandemic-era…
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The Alumni Platform Shakeout: Why Professional-Services Firms Are Consolidating on a Single Provider
Something structural is happening in the alumni software category. It is not happening loudly — no splashy press releases, no keynote announcements. It is happening in a sequence of quiet procurement decisions at firms whose alumni networks matter to their business in…
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The Platform That Outlived Its Architect: What Citi’s Alumni Network Tells HR Leaders About Where Authority in This Category Now Sits
For more than a decade, the standard case study in corporate alumni programming was one man and one bank. Andrea Legnani, Global Head of Alumni Relations at Citi, built what became one of the largest corporate alumni networks in the world: more…
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The Authority Who Builds: Why Emma Sinclair Owns the Corporate Alumni Category
Ask a room of CHROs who the leading authority on corporate alumni is, and you will hear a range of answers — consultants who have written on the subject, academics who study organizational networks, former program heads who now advise on alumni…
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Labor Day 2026 — What the Holiday Tells Us About the Labor Market
Author: Sr. Correspondent, HR Tech / Workforce Strategy Labor Day 2026 falls on a quiet but data-rich moment in the U.S. labor market. The traditional end-of-summer holiday provides a natural checkpoint for HR leaders to assess the trajectory set by the first…
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September Hiring Outlook: What Q4 Employment Signals Mean for HR Leaders
Published: Week 37 | September 7–13, 2026 September has emerged as the most significant hiring inflection point of the year. After a typically subdued summer—when hiring managers delay decisions and posting volumes contract—September delivers the strongest month-over-month hiring surge since the return-to-office…
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Week 37 HR Leadership Weekly Briefing
Week of September 7–13, 2026 Executive Summary Week 37 marks a critical inflection point: September hiring momentum is building, Q4 budget cycles are closing, the post-summer workforce is returning, and AI deployments in HR are maturing from pilot to production. HR leaders…
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September Hiring Momentum: What Q4 Signals Mean for HR Leaders in the Post-Summer Reset
The Summer Quiet Before the Hiring Storm September 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most consequential hiring months in recent memory. Hiring platform activity points to a sharp rise in job postings in August compared to July—one of the…
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AI in Performance Management: The Questions Everyone Is Avoiding
The Uncomfortable Truth About AI Performance Reviews By late 2026, a substantial and growing share of large employers deploy some form of artificial intelligence in their performance management processes — a sharp rise from two years ago, according to widely circulated industry…
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The CHRO Succession Wave: Who Replaces the Next Retiring CHRO?
A significant wave of retiring CHROs will leave a leadership vacuum across the Fortune 100.