Welcome to CHROFirst’s Weekly Roundup — your essential digest of the latest breakthroughs in HR innovation, AI-powered workforce transformation, employee experience, compensation intelligence, and modern learning ecosystems. This week’s stories spotlight how HR leaders are accelerating people-first strategies using automation, real-time analytics, and advanced AI collaboration tools.
Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
Vetano Debuts Resume-Free Video Hiring Platform to Put Skills Front and Center
Vetano has rolled out a resume-less recruitment service throughout the entire country. The service has replaced resumes with skill videos approved through ID verification.
HR Technology & Automation
Skillsoft and edX Partner to Bring University-Led Learning into Enterprise Skills Development
Skillsoft has formed a strategic partnership with edX to integrate university-led and professional education directly into the Skillsoft Percipio Platform, strengthening how enterprises prepare their workforce for an AI-driven future.
Change Management
Keeper Security, the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge Privileged Access Management (PAM) software protecting passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints, announces its Keeper Security Government Cloud (KSGC) platform.
Compensation & Benefits
Workplace Culture and Wellness
Recast Unveils Notable Right Click Tools Updates to Strengthen Endpoint Management
Recast, a leader in modern application and endpoint management, announced the latest Right Click Tools advancements. Features include new tools for administering Intune and Entra environments as organizations continue to blend the capabilities of ConfigMgr and Intune.
Article of the Week
Payroll in 2026 does not behave the way it used to. It does not wait quietly at the end of the month. It does not rely on humans to catch mistakes after they happen. The big shift is something many teams are still wrapping their heads around. Agentic AI. Not bots that only calculate. Systems that watch patterns, predict errors, and step in before things break. Validation, anomaly checks, data entry. Almost half of that grunt work is now handled automatically. That alone changes the pace of payroll operations.
