Phenom Earns Best Talent Management Solution in 2025 HR Tech Awards

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Phenom, an applied AI company specializing in HR, was named Best Talent Intelligence Solution in the Talent Management category of Lighthouse Research & Advisory’s 2025 HR Tech Awards for its Workforce Intelligence solution.

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“Phenom delivers a strategic, AI-powered approach to internal mobility that’s driving real impact for enterprise employers. One global health insurer used Phenom to map 1,500 career paths and now fills 37% of roles through internal hires—boosting engagement and reducing external hiring costs. The platform’s blend of skills visibility, personalized upskilling, and talent marketplace tools makes career growth actionable at scale,” said Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory.

Phenom Workforce Intelligence enables organizations to leverage AI to rapidly implement a skills-forward talent strategy that creates a common language across the organization — driving better employee engagement, manager effectiveness, and talent development. Employees get a clear understanding of their career options and what it takes to get to their next role, managers get enhanced visibility to the skills and aspirations of their teams, and talent management gets a comprehensive view of the skills they have and need to create hyper-personalized development journeys to meet critical needs now and in the future.

The solution drives higher rates of internal hires, which increases retention and decreases cost and time to hire. Furthermore, it increases employee engagement in learning initiatives, which drives a higher ROI for talent development tools and programs.

Customers are using the solution to support numerous business needs:

Specific customer successes include:

“Organizations can’t afford to overlook their existing talent, nor can they wait years for an outdated career architecture to materialize. Phenom AI transforms this challenge into an immediate opportunity,” said John Deal, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at Phenom. “Our skills-centered approach to Workforce Intelligence empowers organizations to build robust ontologies, provide personalized upskilling opportunities at scale, and drive better workforce planning and employee career satisfaction overall.”

With Phenom, candidates find and choose the right job faster, employees develop their skills and evolve, recruiters become wildly productive, talent marketers engage with extreme efficiency, talent leaders optimize hiring and onboarding processes, managers build stronger-performing teams, HR aligns employee development with company goals, and HRIT easily integrates existing HR tech to create a holistic infrastructure.

To learn more about the award-winning Phenom Workforce Intelligence, request a demo.

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About Phenom

Phenom has a purpose of helping a billion people find the right work. Through AI-powered talent experiences, employers use Phenom to hire and onboard employees faster, develop them to their full potential, and retain them longer. The Phenom Intelligent Talent Experience platform seamlessly connects candidates, employees, recruiters, talent marketers, talent leaders, hiring managers, HR and HRIT — empowering diverse and global enterprises with innovative products including Phenom X+ Agentic AI and Generative AI, Career Site, Chatbot, CMS, Talent CRM, X+ Screening, Automated Interview Scheduling, Interview Intelligence, Talent Experience Engine, Campaigns, University Recruiting, Contingent Talent Hiring, Onboarding, Talent Marketplace, Workforce Intelligence, Career Pathing, Gigs, Mentoring, and Referrals.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (5 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (4 consecutive years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020).

Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit www.phenom.com. Connect with Phenom on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

Phenom is named the Best Talent Intelligence Solution in the Talent Management category of the 2025 HR Tech Awards conducted by Lighthouse Research & Advisory for its Workforce Intelligence solution — recognized for reducing hiring costs and improving retention with increased internal mobility and personalized upskilling at scale.

The Shib Sibs are making a comeback with an eye on more Olympic figure skating medals.

The popular brother-sister ice dance team of Alex and Maia Shibutani announced Thursday they will return to competition this season in the hopes of making the loaded American squad for the next year's Milan-Cortina Games.

The 34-year-old Alex and the 30-year-old Maia have skated together most of their lives, and for a long stretch were the dominant U.S. ice dancers. They are three-time world medalists and two-time Olympians, finishing ninth at the 2014 Sochi Games and third at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, where they also were part of the American squad that won a team bronze medal.

The Shibutanis stepped away from competition after those Olympics, choosing to focus on school and other interests. They've authored four children's books and worked as choreographers and ambassadors for diversity and representation, and two years ago, they were inducted into U.S. Figure Skating's hall of fame.

They extended their hiatus when Maia Shibutani was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on her kidney in 2019. She underwent surgery to remove the mass, and additional treatment resulted in a long, painful recovery.

“These past seven years have challenged and inspired us in ways we never expected," Maia Shibutani said. “I’m so happy and grateful to be healthy and in a position to make the decision to return to the sport I love in this way.”

The Shibutanis continued to skate in exhibitions over the years, and they remained close to the Olympic movement, albeit in a different way. Last summer, Alex Shibutani worked as a photographer and Maia Shibutani did media work at the Paris Olympics, where U.S. figure skaters were finally awarded their team gold medals from the 2022 Beijing Games.

Alex Shibutani also is a member of the athletes' commission for the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Now, the Shibutanis hope to be on the next American squad headed to the Olympics.

They will be training with longtime coach Marina Zoueva and Massimo Scali, who recently helped Alysa Liu return from her own brief retirement to win the first women's world title for a U.S. figure skater in nearly two decades.

It won't be easy for the Shibutanis to make the team for the Milano-Cortina Games. Madison Chock and Evan Bates just won their third consecutive ice dance world title and will be prohibitive favorites to stand atop the Olympic podium, while Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko were fifth at worlds and Caroline Green and Michael Parsons were ninth.

The U.S. has qualified the maximum three ice dance teams for the Winter Games, which means someone will be left out.

“As Olympic medalists and U.S. Figure Skating hall-of-famers, it’s incredibly exciting to have Maia and Alex return to competition next season,” said Justin Dillon, the senior director of athlete high performance for U.S. Figure Skating.

“They are strong ambassadors for the sport, both on and off the ice. Their comeback adds to the excitement surrounding Team USA after a very successful year and makes the team stronger as we look toward the Olympic season.”

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FILE - Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani of the United States perform during the ice dance, free dance figure skating final in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)