Winning the Best Use of Technology Award at the TIARA Talent Solutions Awards has reinforced Sevenstep’s reputation for delivering pioneering solutions in talent acquisition. In this interview with Sevenstep’s Senior Vice President of Operations and AI Koye Adejumo, he shares how their proprietary Sevayo® Insights platform powers predictive analytics and data integration, offering clients real-time, actionable intelligence to stay ahead of recruitment challenges. Sevenstep’s commitment to technological advancement is not only transforming their clients’ recruitment capabilities but also setting new industry standards for adaptability and innovation in talent management.
Aisha Bushell: What does winning the Best Use of Technology Award mean for Sevenstep and the role of technology in your solutions?
Koye Adejumo: The Best Use of Technology Award reflects Sevenstep’s intentional approach to innovation as a core component of the value we provide to clients. The technology advanced by our in-house innovation team has empowered clients to predict hiring demands, deploy right-sized solutions for cost-effective delivery, foresee and address future recruiting challenges and pinpoint performance improvement opportunities. The result is a client base that trusts Sevenstep to navigate current and future talent demands with creative and precise strategies that sustain a high-performing TA function.
AB: What specific technologies or innovations have you leveraged to achieve this recognition, and how do they benefit your clients?
KA: Our proprietary Sevayo® Insights talent data integration and predictive analytics platform is the technology behind our TIARA Award recognition. The platform draws from all talent data sources (i.e., from clients and third-party contingent and permanent labor forces) and channels to deliver intelligence that is detailed, predictive and actionable.
We have applied this technology to help clients connect workforce planning and talent operations through extremely turbulent business conditions. We enable visibility into critical hiring patterns for specific issues like recruiting for a particular skill or meeting DEI goals. More recently, we developed a means of predicting hiring difficulty for a requisition (req) as soon as it is posted, helping us resource difficult requisitions at the outset to keep hiring on time and dramatically reduce aging vacancies. Then, in the case of the story in our award-winning entry, we combined that predictive hiring capability with a total talent strategy that leverages contingent workers to fill the predicted difficult roles while simultaneously recruiting for permanent hires.
These use cases show that the technology is not just a single capability but a foundation for progressively innovative applications that keep our clients ahead of the curve in competing for talent.
AB: How have you seen the integration of your technology influence industry standards or practices, and what role do you see your solutions playing in shaping the future of talent management technology?
KA: Our AI and machine learning-driven Sevayo Insights data integration and predictive analytics platform has released TA functions from the problem-solving limitations that volatile markets, disparate data channels and complex hiring processes have imposed on employers. Instead of building an original solution for each recruiting challenge from the ground up, Sevenstep applies the integration and analytics capability of Sevayo Insights to draw from existing data channels to rapidly answer new questions and challenges as they arise. Continuous innovation requires an experienced in-house innovation team, but the platform enables a new level of speed in bringing together information, analyzing it and creating specific, actionable intelligence.
This capability sets a new standard of expectation for Sevenstep clients to recognize and adjust to changing talent demands and market conditions. That expectation will influence how other talent solutions providers and their clients approach hiring needs, accelerating innovation and providing predictive visibility into markets, performance and processes that was not possible in the past.
AB: Do you have any future technological advancements or enhancements you are planning to continue leading in this area?
KA: We continue to develop and roll out new functionality within the Sevayo Insights platform. In addition to incorporating total talent visibility across a larger base of clients, we are expanding our ability to correlate data from new sources. For example, our near-term plans include incorporating real-time socio-economic data and labor market trends alongside recruitment cycles.
Today, we leverage labor market data and can identify trends that influence cost and availability of talent. Incorporating that data into other recruiting process information we provide will give recruiters and TA leaders new detail about how those trends are influencing each stage of the recruitment process. At the same time, we are extending our view to analyze the impact of broad economic and social data, from market fluctuations, policy decisions, conflicts and even weather events to name a few.
Including these data points will enable us to understand the impact of external factors on the labor market and recruitment cycle which can be used to predict the future.
AB: Finally, could you provide a brief testimonial about the TIARA awards and what made you choose to enter?
KA: Sevenstep’s in-house innovation team, client delivery teams and our customers bring together the best in talent acquisition to solve critical workforce challenges. The TIARA Awards highlight our work together and the innovation and TA performance potential we offer for employers who can benefit from the ready-for-everything TA capability we provide.
