Harver Acquires Symphony Talent, Creating Global Talent Platform
The merger combines predictive assessment, branding, and candidate management to offer integrated recruitment data.
Harver announced the acquisition of Symphony Talent, creating a unique platform that combines predictive assessment, reference checking, recruitment marketing, and candidate relationship management. This move comes as employers seek to integrate skills data and combat fraud in selection processes.
What the Acquisition Brings to the Talent Acquisition Market
The union of the two companies forms a “talent intelligence platform” that already serves over 1,500 clients and has more than 300 employees. Symphony brings over 50 years of experience in recruitment marketing and branding, while Harver adds over 35 years of validated assessment science.
How the Platform Integrates Different Recruitment Stages
The new system covers workforce planning, candidate attraction, assessment, reference checking, hiring, and performance analysis. It connects job insights, branding, career sites, talent communities, programmatic advertising, relationship management, skills matching, fraud detection, and analytics.
Impacts of AI and Candidate Fraud
According to Harver CEO, Sean Barry, “the talent acquisition market is being reshaped by AI, skills-based hiring, and a wave of candidate fraud that’s changing what it means to know who you’re hiring.” The platform uses AI to generate over 100 million individual skills insights and integrate this data into hiring decisions, while also offering fraud detection mechanisms.
Benefits for Employers in Terms of Costs and Quality
By reducing reliance on disconnected recruitment applications, the solution aims to improve hiring quality and decrease time and cost to fill vacancies. Integrating skills data early in the process allows for identifying stronger matches before investing in advanced assessments.
Perspectives on Recruitment Technology Consolidation
The combination reflects a trend of consolidation, where talent acquisition functions seek to replace isolated toolsets with a single system. Harver plans to expand its presence across the full recruitment workflow, moving from an assessment layer to a comprehensive platform provider.
With information from citybiz.
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