In 2025, Humanforce delivered its most ambitious year of Human Capital Management (HCM) innovation yet, unifying Talent, HR, Workforce Management (WFM), Benefits, and Payroll through deeper integrations, greater automation, and the unlocking of data intelligence. 

Humanforce’s 2025 releases didn’t just upgrade features, incremental developments purposefully elevated the entire Humanforce HCM suite. With automation, data accuracy, and deep integrations now woven throughout the suite, organisations gain unprecedented visibility, teams work with fewer barriers, and employees enjoy fairer and more connected experiences. 

Below is a wrap-up of our key suite-wide developments over this milestone year for our customers, building a truly experience-led, AI-powered HCM suite to empower the frontline workforce, globally.

Humanforce Analytics – Talent

Humanforce introduced a new generation of analytics capabilities, giving talent teams instant clarity into hiring performance and the ability to accelerate time to hire. Recruiters and leaders now get AI-powered answers, deeper funnel insights, and custom dashboards that reveal where hiring flows or stalls. The result is faster decision-making, higher-quality candidates, and a robust analytics foundation that will unify insights across the entire HCM suite as Humanforce Analytics continues to expand into HR, WFM, and beyond in the new year.

Humanforce DataFlow

Since its launch, DataFlow, our powerful streaming integration service, has helped numerous enterprises combine valuable workforce data related to Talent, HR, WFM, and Benefits with their existing data warehouses. By eliminating the need for manual exports and addressing misaligned reporting data, businesses gain real-time operational visibility and enhanced accuracy, while establishing an AI-ready data infrastructure for faster, smarter decision-making.

DataFlow serves as a crucial intelligence multiplier, unlocking essential employee-related data that allows organisations to optimize business reporting and make confident, data-informed decisions quickly and proactively.

Connected Employee Data (HR ↔ WFM ↔ Payroll)

This year cemented Humanforce’s connected-suite vision. Role revisions, pay rates, and employee details flow automatically between HR, WFM, and Payroll. Manual admin disappears, onboarding accelerates, and payroll errors shrink dramatically. With employee data updating consistently across all systems, businesses not only operate with fewer risks, less friction, and complete confidence in the accuracy of every hire-to-pay touchpoint but also generate an ecosystem of employee data that powers intelligent decision-making.

Looking ahead to 2026

With a wave of new AI-powered tools, deeper cross-suite connectivity, and employee-experience-led innovation in store for the year ahead, we are excited about how we will continue to empower workforces into the future.

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.

We’re excited to introduce Candidate Forms, a better way to collect structured data from candidates after they’ve submitted their job application, without adding friction to the initial application experience.

With Candidate Forms, you can now send tailored, job-specific forms to candidates at any stage of the recruitment process. Whether it’s collecting onboarding details, certifications, medical declarations, or DEI info, Candidate Forms helps streamline your workflows and keeps everything securely tracked in one place.

What’s New

Humanforce Talent now includes a dedicated Candidate Forms feature, giving you the flexibility to:

• Create and manage configurable form templates through a new self-service interface
• Trigger forms to candidates 1:1, in bulk, or automatically as part of your recruitment workflow
• Collect structured responses, attachments, and secure data post-application
• Automatically track form requests and completions in the candidate profile and job vacancy view
• Support up to 5 forms per job vacancy to collect all the data you need, when you need it
  
  

Why it matters

Candidate Forms helps you modernise and streamline your hiring process:

• Reduces friction at the point of application by shifting non-critical questions to later
• Speeds up screening by collecting key data points in a structured, repeatable way
• Replaces scattered comms (emails, notes, calls) with a clean, auditable workflow
• Supports critical use cases like DEI data, onboarding info, certifications, and medical disclosures
  
  

Getting Started

HR and Recruitment Admins can begin creating templates using the new Forms interface, and issuing forms as part of the job vacancy workflow. Candidates will receive a secure email or SMS to complete the form, and their responses will be automatically stored in-platform.

For setup steps and FAQs, visit our Help Centre, or contact your Customer Success Manager to learn more.

We’ve expanded our Apply with SEEK functionality to now support candidates applying via JobsDB and JobStreet, allowing key information like name, contact details, and CV details to be pre-filled from their profile. Candidates can still review and edit their application before submitting, making it faster and easier to apply on both desktop and mobile.

Previously available for SEEK Australia, this enhanced experience is now expanding to support candidates across APAC. All Humanforce Talent customers who use JobsDB or JobStreet and require candidates to apply on their Careers site will be automatically upgraded to the enhanced Apply with SEEK experience.

The following fields will be automatically pre-filled from the candidate’s JobsDB or JobStreet profile when using Apply with SEEK:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Email
• Phone Number
• Resume
• Work History
• Education History
• Executive Summary

We’re excited to introduce Talent Analytics, the first step in our Humanforce Analytics journey, bringing faster, clearer insights to drive smarter hiring decisions. This launch kicks off a wider transformation to unify analytics across Talent, WFM, HR and Benefits, giving you a single source of truth for people data and performance.

As part of this launch, we’ve refreshed the existing analytics experience in Humanforce Talent, and introduce a powerful new premium tier: Talent Analytics Pro.

Whether you’re a recruiter, HR leader, or business partner, Talent Analytics helps you move from reporting to real-time answers and lays the foundation for deeper insights across your entire workforce in the future.

What’s New

Talent Analytics (Core)

As a Humanforce Talent customer, you get a modern refresh of your existing analytics dashboards, with:

• Clean, interactive dashboards showing key recruitment metrics at a glance
• Faster performance and improved visual clarity
• Visibility into your hiring funnel, recruiter activity, and stage progress

Talent Analytics Pro 

Unlock deeper insights and advanced capability with:

• Build-your-own dashboards – Tailor reporting to your unique workflows
• AI-powered insights – Use natural language search to surface trends and answer questions instantly
• Advanced filtering and drill-downs – Explore metrics by recruiter, stage, team, and more
• Threshold and anomaly alerts – Spot and address potential talent issues early
• Scheduled reports and exports – Share insights effortlessly across the business

Why it matters

Talent Analytics turns your recruitment data into dashboards, exports, and AI-powered insights, giving your team:

• Clarity that drives action: Spot trends, track funnel progress, and make data-led hiring decisions faster
• Smarter hiring: Empower recruiters and leaders to see what’s working and where to improve
• More flexibility: Explore and export the data you need, when you need it
• Stronger outcomes: Improve time-to-hire, candidate quality, and team performance through ongoing insight
• One source of truth: Lay the foundation for unified analytics across HR, WFM and Benefits

Getting Started

• Talent Analytics (Core) is currently being rolled out to all Humanforce Talent customers. If you haven't been contacted about this rollout by 20th October, please submit a Support ticket and our team will be in contact.
• To explore or upgrade to Talent Analytics Pro, contact your Customer Success Manager.
• Visit our Help Centre to learn more about dashboard views, filtering, and what’s included in each tier.

We’re excited to announce a new AI-powered integration with Outhire, now available in Humanforce Talent.

Outhire simplifies your hiring process by combining AI-powered resume analysis with automated phone and video screening, all within your existing recruitment workflow. In just a few clicks, you can access intelligent job fit assessments, initiate AI interviews, and receive branded screening reports that help you identify top candidates faster without the heavy lifting.

What’s New

With the Outhire integration enabled, you can:

• Access AI-driven Job Fit Analysis reports: When candidates apply for roles, their resumes and job descriptions are analysed by Outhire’s AI engine, and a Job Fit report is automatically added to their profile so you can instantly see how well they align to the role
• Automate phone or video interviews with AI: Assess candidates faster and more consistently, without needing to manually schedule first-round interviews
• Receive detailed, branded interview reports: Get consistent insights to support faster, more informed hiring decisions

 Why it matters

Outhire helps your team:

• Save time on manual screening by using AI to assess fit and conduct first-round interviews
• Improve hiring decisions with structured, unbiased candidate insights
• Streamline your recruitment workflow while keeping everything centralised in Humanforce Talent

Whether you're hiring at scale or want to free up more time for strategic recruitment, this integration offers a smarter, more efficient way to assess candidates early in the process.

Getting Started

To enable the Outhire integration, reach out to your Humanforce Customer Success Manager or submit a support request.

We are excited to announce we are releasing some new capabilities associated with Humanforce Talent’s Indeed Apply solution, supporting Indeed’s Disposition Sync and the identification of EEO questions (US Only) for clients using Indeed Apply.

We’ve also expanded the existing partnership between Humanforce and WalkMe, bringing the WalkMe product into the Humanforce Talent solution to power in-platform announcements and user flows.

In addition, we’ve released a number of performance improvements, focusing on the Employer Comms Inbox and Talent Community Careers pages, as well as several UI improvements to the display of various platform components.

Let’s dive into the details!

Indeed Apply Disposition Sync 

We have released a companion feature to the existing Indeed Apply integration functionality. As a result of this change, existing customers utilising Indeed Apply have been advised that the processing of candidate information for Indeed Apply applications will change slightly. 

When candidates apply to jobs posted on Humanforce Talent using Indeed Apply, Humanforce Talent will now sync the candidate status with Indeed through a process known as ‘Disposition Sync’.  

All Humanforce Talent statuses will be mapped to a corresponding Indeed Disposition Sync status, allowing for any status move occurring in relation to Indeed Apply candidates within Humanforce Talent to be reflected in Indeed. Apart from the status, only an Indeed ID will be transferred to Indeed, no other PII or candidate application information will be used. 

The use of the Indeed Integration is at all times governed by Indeed’s terms of service, Indeed’s cookie policy, and privacy policy. Disposition Data will be transferred to Indeed as data controller in accordance with Indeed’s privacy policy and Humanforce customers are assured that application data processed through Humanforce Talent’s integration with Indeed Apply, will only be relayed back to Indeed, and continues to adhere to existing Humanforce customer data protection policies. 

Humanforce Talent customers utilising Indeed Apply can gain greater application tracking capability from Indeed, empowering talent attraction teams with greater candidate intelligence and insight.  

This new capability can be applied automatically when enabling Indeed Apply for Humanforce customers, so there is no requirement for customers to activate or perform any configuration.  

If you would like to opt-out of this element of the Indeed Apply solution for any reason, simply mention this to your account manager when requesting the Indeed Apply feature, or contact support@livehire.com. 

Indeed Apply EEO Question Config - US Job Posts Only

Sticking with the Indeed theme, we have also released additional capabilities associated with categorising application questions, to allow these questions to be treated appropriately by Indeed when utilising Indeed Apply screener questions. 

Indeed Apply currently supports the ability to pass configured job application questions associated with a job vacancy to Indeed, to be displayed for candidates electing to utilise the Indeed Apply functionality. This new capability allows for these application questions to be categorised as Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) questions, which allows Indeed to display them within a distinct EEO section of the Indeed Apply flow. Note that this flow is only currently relevant for jobs that are posted to the US.

This new configuration option is accessible within the job application question templates page, within Admin Console, for appropriately permissioned users. When Adding or Editing a question, users will now see a new configuration item labelled ‘Is this a demographic question?’.

We strongly recommend that our US clients, and other clients who may post jobs to the US review their application question configuration, as Indeed have indicated their intent to monitor job posts to the US, to ensure EEO questions are appropriately configured. 

While only relevant for Indeed Apply posts to the US for the time being, we do encourage all clients to review their application questions, and update this setting where relevant. This will ensure that any future jobs posted to the US, and utilising Indeed Apply, are treated appropriately, as well as allowing us to immediately provide this capability, should Indeed expand this to other territories.

WalkMe in Humanforce Talent

After market testing, Humanforce renewed our partnership with WalkMe to deliver in-product content. As a result, WalkMe has now replaced AppCues in the Humanforce Talent solution to power in-platform announcements and dynamic user flows, such as our recent announcement of the Humanforce Talent Customer Community Session.

In concert with this changeover, and in light of feedback from platform users, we have also condensed the number of informational user flows found throughout the system. All related information is still available in our Employer help centre, and we’ll continue to listen to the feedback from our users to drive towards the perfect balance for in-platform guidance. 

Performance Improvements - Comms and Careers

In addition to feature development, the Humanforce Talent team have recently been focused on two key areas of the platform where we’ve noted the potential for substantial performance improvements; The Employer Comms inbox and Talent Community Careers pages.

Optimisations have been made to the loading of inbox counts and messages, with additional optimisations made within the Teams section of the inbox. These changes are expected to lead to improved performance and faster load times within the inbox, and when opening profiles from the inbox.

Additionally, optimisations have been made to the Talent Community Careers page, both to improve loading times, and to ensure a high level of resiliency. We’re continuing to work on some additional changes in this area, to further improve performance, which we’re looking to roll out over the coming months.

UI Display Improvements

We’ve resolved some key items raised by users and our internal teams, relating to the display of several elements within the UI.

Feedback indicated that some candidates were having issues accessing their submitted applications from their Talent profile to edit their applications for clients with this configuration. We’ve corrected a display issue for these applications which were related to applications where candidates were not required to answer any application questions.

Additionally, we resolved a formatting display issues initially reported by our internal teams where some custom question filters were displaying with visible HTML markup.

Finally, we’ve resolved a display inconsistency in our Offer Approvals Emails, where some offer content fields shown as a preview in the emails could be inconsistent, due to specific field configurations within the offer card.

We are excited to announce that we have now released an update to our Humanforce Talent Indeed Apply integration, helping deliver greater insights for HR talent acquisition teams.

🔥  What’s New?

We have updated the existing Indeed Apply integration functionality. As a result of this change, customers are advised that the processing of candidate information for Indeed Apply applications will change slightly.

When candidates apply to jobs posted on Humanforce Talent using Indeed Apply, Humanforce Talent will now sync the candidate status with Indeed through a process known as ‘Disposition Sync’.

All Humanforce Talent statuses will be mapped to a corresponding Indeed Disposition Sync status, allowing for any status move occurring in relation to Indeed Apply candidates within Humanforce Talent to be reflected in Indeed. Apart from the status, only an Indeed ID will be transferred to Indeed, no other PII or candidate application information will be used.

The use of the Indeed Integration is at all times governed by Indeed’s terms of service, Indeed’s cookie policy, and privacy policy. Disposition Data will be transferred to Indeed as data controller in accordance with Indeed’s privacy policy and Humanforce customers are assured that application data processed through Humanforce Talent’s integration with Indeed Apply, will only be relayed back to Indeed, and continues to adhere to existing Humanforce customer data protection policies.

⭐️  Why It Matters

Humanforce Talent customer utilising Indeed Apply can gain greater application tracking capability from Indeed, empowering talent attraction teams with greater candidate intelligence and insight.

🏁  Next Steps

This new capability will be applied automatically to Humanforce customers utilising Indeed Apply, so there is no requirement for customers to activate or perform any configuration.

If you would like to opt-out of this element of the Indeed Apply solution for any reason, please email support@livehire.com.

We are pleased to announce we are releasing the first round of rebranding changes for the Humanforce Talent platform, taking on the Humanforce Talent name, and implementing a new design that aligns with with the broader Humanforce suite. Whist the design and name change is new, we have not altered any of the navigation and operational procedures users are already familiar with. 

In addition, we’ve released some new enhancements to streamline the process of inviting candidates to checks and assessments through Humanforce Talent. We have also upgraded additional elements of the Humanforce Talent infrastructure and front end. These enhancements will help you better access the tools you need to manage your environment more effectively.

Let’s dive into the details!

Humanforce Talent Rebrand

Employer and Candidate experiences

From March 24th, we are introducing rebranding changes. We will commence removing LiveHire and updating it with the Humanforce Talent name and logo across both the Employer and Candidate experiences. Customers and candidates, can expect to see:

• The LiveHire logo replaced by the Humanforce Talent logo 
• Fonts and colour palettes will now mirror Humanforce branding 
• References to "LiveHire" will commence being replaced by "Humanforce Talent" 

Once again, these changes are currently purely aesthetic in nature. No changes have been made to URLs, APIs or email domains. Access to the platform and its function will continue as normal during this changeover.

We are making this change now in order to:

• Maintain a superior and consistent experience for customers.  
• Strengthen and unify the HCM suite under one Humanforce brand, thereby allowing customers to better understand the Humanforce HCM suite.  
• Align people, systems, and ways of working into a unified approach.

Before	After

For additional information, please refer to our FAQ article.

Automatically invite candidates to Checks at Status Change

Job Vacancy Details > Checks and Assessments 

We’ve released the ability for users to configure a check package to be automatically sent to candidates when they are moved into a status within the Recruitment Process.

This functionality will be available to all clients utilising native Checks integrations, and can be configured from the Checks and Assessments tab within the Job Vacancy Details section of your jobs.

Simply select the Check package, check the automatically send candidates an invite checkbox, and then select the desired status in your recruitment process. When candidates are status changed into this status, they will immediately be sent the configured check package.

Automatically invite candidates to Assessments at Status Change

Job Vacancy Details > Checks and Assessments 

We’ve released the ability for users to configure an assessment package to be automatically sent to candidates when they are moved into a status within the Recruitment Process.

This functionality will be available to all clients utilising native Assessment integrations, and can be configured from the Checks and Assessments tab within the Job Vacancy Details section of your jobs. This change supports clients whose use cases for Assessment integrations were not already support by the ability to embed assessments into the application flow. These two capabilities will now both be available, with clients able to utilise either option when configuring their job vacancies.

To utilise the new functionality, simply select the Assessment package, check the automatically send candidates an invite checkbox, and then select the desired status in your recruitment process. When candidates are status changed into this status, they will immediately be sent the configured assessment package. You will notice that when this option is selected, the option for including the assessment in the application process is disabled.

Infrastructure upgrades 

We have upgraded additional infrastructure components across the LiveHire platform. These upgrades aim to enhance the user experience with improved platform stability and faster load times for the below areas:

• Offer Integrations
• Assessments
• Utilities Logging

Front End upgrade - Offer Management

We have upgraded the technology that underpins our Offer Management UI. This upgrade aims to improve the stability and load times of this page, and also unlocks our ability to utilise this front end tech for new and greater functional improvements within the product.