Let’s hear it for the “people” people — happy International HR Day!
Every year, May 20 celebrates the impact you make every single day, from championing workplace culture to guiding your organization through transformation and growth.
We know HR professionals like you don’t just keep things running. You drive the future of work.
That’s why we’re marking the occasion by spotlighting five resources we think you should have in your toolkit as you continue to lead with heart, strategy, and vision in an age of rapid change.
Related content: HR Career Navigator gives you the power to grow your career and uncover opportunities like never before.
1. Join Josh Bersin’s HR Career Navigator
Staying ahead requires continuous learning and strategic career planning. HR Career Navigator, a collaborative initiative between The Josh Bersin Company and Eightfold AI, is an AI-powered platform that offers personalized career pathways, skill-building recommendations, and mentorship connections, all tailored to your individual profile.
By integrating over 25 years of HR research with advanced AI-driven talent intelligence, HR Career Navigator provides actionable insights to help you identify potential career trajectories, bridge skill gaps, and connect with mentors in your field.
You can upload your résumé or LinkedIn profile to receive real-time, market-driven analyses of career options and suggestions for relevant training courses available through the Josh Bersin Academy.
As you continue to embrace technological advancements, tools like the HR Career Navigator are essential to enhance your impact and drive organizational success. Whether you’re seeking to upskill, explore new roles, or expand your professional network, this platform offers a comprehensive approach to career development in the modern HR environment.
Go to HR Career Navigator to join and build your complimentary profile and start transforming your career in HR today.
2. Read “The ultimate buyer’s guide for a talent intelligence platform”
This guide is a must-read for HR professionals navigating today’s fast-changing world of work.
“The ultimate buyer’s guide for a talent intelligence platform” provides a comprehensive roadmap to understanding and adopting AI-powered talent intelligence across the entire employee life cycle — from hiring and internal mobility, to upskilling, project staffing, and workforce planning.
The guide demystifies how deep-learning and agentic AI can uncover real-time skills data, match people to roles based on potential, and help organizations make faster, more informed decisions.
It also explains how to transition from a job-based model to a talent-centered one, giving you the tools to become a strategic adviser, not an order-taker.
Packed with practical advice, our guide gives you the top questions to ask AI vendors, alongside ethical AI considerations, empowering you to make confident, future-focused tech decisions.
Whether you’re building a business case, exploring new platforms, or preparing for AI’s growing role in your HR tech stack, this guide is an essential resource for leading with clarity and confidence.
Related content: Meet The New Talent Code, a podcast exploring the critical connection between people and their skills and how that can impact talent transformations within organizations.
3. Tune in to The New Talent Code
The New Talent Code is our podcast designed for HR professionals navigating the evolving talent management landscape. Hosted by our CMO Ligia Zamora and Jason Cerrato, VP of our Talent-centered Transformation team, each episode features conversations with industry leaders who offer actionable and practical advice on integrating AI into HR practices.
Zamora and Cerrato delve into topics like adopting skills-based approaches, implementing AI technologies, and transforming traditional HR processes. Season two highlights include discussions on embracing change, deploying talent intelligence effectively, and positioning HR as a strategic partner in AI adoption.
Whether you’re new to AI in HR or seeking to refine your strategies, The New Talent Code offers valuable perspectives to help you lead your organization through change.
4. Watch our Talent Table webinars
Talent Table is a monthly webinar where top HR leaders and strategists tackle the most pressing workforce challenges they’re facing today. Hosted by Rebecca Warren, Director of our Talent-centered Transformation team, each session offers candid discussions on topics ranging from AI adoption to internal mobility, workforce development, and aligning your HR strategy with your business strategy.
Recent episodes explored:
- Re-engaging past candidates to build agile talent pipelines.
- Bridging the gap between HR and executive leadership through talent intelligence.
- Using AI to enhance internal mobility and succession planning.
- Embedding diversity into hiring practices from the outset.
- Best practices for vetting and implementing new HR technologies.
These sessions emphasize practical strategies and feature insights from industry leaders from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, PwC, and The Josh Bersin Company.
Designed for HR professionals at all levels, Talent Table provides a platform to learn from peers and industry leaders, helping organizations confidently navigate the evolving talent landscape.
5. Cultivate possibilities with agentic AI
Each May we host Cultivate, our premier event for talent professionals ready to transform their organizations with today’s top HR practices and latest technologies.
This year, Co-CEO Chano Fernandez kicked off our keynote address by sharing how Eightfold continues to lead the way in AI with the delivery of more than 150 products in the past year and our attention focused on agentic AI.
With agentic AI, he said, organizations will reimagine how work gets done and who does it. Read our recap of his talk here.
Co-CEO and Co-founder Ashutosh Garg finished out the keynote with the introduction of EightfoldAI Recruiter and Digital Twin.
Eightfold AI Recruiter is an AI interviewer that autonomously engages candidates, assessing and understanding them through dynamic, conversational interactions. Working 24/7, AI Interviewer meets candidates where they are, improving responsiveness, candidate experience, and selection outcomes — completing the critical last step between sourcing and hiring.
Digital Twin is a personalized large language model (LLM) that captures an employee’s wisdom, knowledge, skills, and experiences. By seamlessly integrating across enterprise systems, email, messaging platforms, CRMs, project management tools, and code repositories, Digital Twin captures the essence of each individual’s work contributions. Learn more about both in this blog post.
Celebrate International HR Day
As we celebrate International HR Day, we want to leave you with one message: you’ve got this — and we’ve got your back.
The HR profession is quickly evolving with AI reshaping everything from workforce planning to candidate experience. These highlighted resources will hopefully keep you informed, inspired, and ahead of the curve.
So, take a moment to explore, learn, and share. And from all of us at Eightfold, thank you for everything you do to improve work for everyone.
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