2025 has been a pivotal year for Humanforce Talent. As organisations continue to compete for talent in a highly dynamic market, our focus has been on giving recruiters and hiring managers more clarity, automation and intelligence to move faster and hire better. This year we delivered major upgrades across analytics, candidate experience, AI-powered screening, and workflow automation, while also refining the performance, branding consistency and reliability of the platform. The result is a more insightful and connected Talent experience across the Humanforce suite.

Here’s a look at what we delivered:

Turning recruitment data into insights and answers with Talent Analytics

The biggest milestone this year was the launch of Humanforce Talent Analytics, the first chapter in our Humanforce Analytics journey toward unified insights across the entire Humanforce suite. Recruitment teams now have access to cleaner, faster dashboards that surface key performance metrics with a clearer, more modern experience. Alongside this, we introduced Talent Analytics Pro, a premium tier designed to help teams go deeper with their data through:

• Build-your-own dashboards
• Advanced filtering and drill-downs
• Automated alerts and anomaly detection
• Scheduled reporting, and
• AI-powered insights using natural-language Q&A

These capabilities move Talent beyond reporting and into real-time, intelligence-driven recruitment, giving teams faster clarity on what’s working, what needs attention, and where to prioritise effort. It’s a foundational step toward Humanforce’s vision for unified, cross-suite analytics, connecting insights from Talent, HR, WFM and Benefits into a single view of your workforce.

Smarter data collection with Candidate Forms

This year, we introduced Candidate Forms, giving teams a flexible, low-friction way to collect structured data post-application without disrupting the candidate’s initial experience.

Recruiters can now create configurable form templates, trigger them automatically or in bulk, track completions, collect secure attachments and support up to five forms per vacancy. Whether it’s certifications, DEI information, onboarding details or medical declarations, Candidate Forms keeps everything organised, auditable and centralised.

Expanding reach with Apply with SEEK across APAC

We expanded Apply with SEEK functionality beyond Australia to support candidates applying via JobsDB and JobStreet, enabling seamless pre-filled applications across key APAC markets.

Candidate profiles now populate essential information automatically, from contact details to resumes, work history and education, helping to improve conversion rates, reduce application friction and ensure a smoother experience across desktop and mobile.

Accelerating Hiring with AI: Outhire Integration

This year we introduced a new AI-powered partner integration with Outhire, available to Humanforce Talent customers via our Open API. The integration allows teams to enhance early-stage screening by connecting Humanforce Talent with Outhire's capabilities, including:

• Automated job-fit analysis
• AI-driven phone and video interviews
• Consistent, structured candidate reports

This integration help teams reduce manual screening time, improve consistency, and make more confident decisions earlier in the process, especially valuable for high-volume roles.

A more polished, stable and connected Talent platform

Alongside the headline features, we delivered dozens of behind-the-scenes improvements across branding, infrastructure, accessibility and performance ,all focused on improving reliability and consistency.

These smaller but meaningful platform enhancements included:

• Rebranding to Humanforce Talent across employer and candidate experiences
• Faster performance across key areas like Comms, Careers pages and Offer Management
• Improved accessibility aligned to WCAG 2.2
• Enhanced validation for phone numbers, addresses and custom fields
• More resilient API and infrastructure updates across checks, events, logging and submissions
• Smoother email interactions and response handling
• Career Site infrastructure upgrades and simplified branding consistency

These upgrades ensure Talent performs better behind the scenes, letting teams focus on hiring rather than system admin.

Looking ahead to 2026

Next year, we’re continuing to elevate the Talent experience with deeper platform connectivity and stronger AI support across the hiring journey.

Here’s what’s coming:

Native Talent + HR integration — automatic creation of employee and job records in Humanforce HR when an offer is accepted, removing manual admin and creating a smooth transition from hire to onboard.

AI tools for candidates — resume enhancement, improved job matching and richer Talent Pool insights to help candidates present stronger applications and improve fit.

AI-driven Talent Community engagement — dynamic workflows that keep candidate profiles fresh, maintain availability signals and automatically engage talent pools over time.

Hiring Manager AI Co-Pilot — daily, prioritised summaries that surface key actions and bottlenecks, helping leaders stay on track during busy hiring periods.

These enhancements will help Talent teams move faster, make better decisions and deliver a more streamlined recruitment experience across the Humanforce suite.