Burges Karkaria, former Chief Technology Officer of Enterprise at Intel Corporation, has joined Bay Area startup Censia–a leading provider of talent intelligence, recruiting and workforce management technology–as CTO. "We are thrilled that Burges Karkaria has joined us as Censia's new Chief Technology Officer," says Joanna Riley, CEO and co-founder of Censia. "Burges is a leader in enterprise AI and will steer our AI-enabled enterprise products roadmap and deliver new products and systems of innovation. These will provide companies with a comprehensive suite of AI-powered talent acquisition and talent management tools that will enable data-driven people decisions at scale and open the doors to digital transformation to companies of all sizes." Karkaria, who served on Censia's board of advisors for two years prior to joining the organization, will focus on developing additional product capabilities for enterprise and core product partners, delivered primarily via headless API.

Talent intelligence – the use of artificial intelligence in finding, assessing and hiring talent – has transformed the way that companies find talent and create internal mobility for their employees. It has enabled recruiters to drastically reduce the amount of time they spend reviewing resumés and searching for passive candidates. It has freed up an average of 20 hours or more of recruiting time per candidate and allowed recruiters to provide a better recruiting experience and to focus on securing top talent more quickly. Despite these benefits, less than 22% of companies are using artificial intelligence to solve their hiring challenges. We launched the 10-minute 2020 Trends in Talent Intelligence survey to better understand the gap between the 78% of companies struggling to fill key roles and the 22% of companies using AI in recruiting.

Hiring equality and gender parity are some of the most significant issues of the current time. All companies say that their people are their greatest asset, but almost three-quarters of companies can't find the right talent for their most critical roles. Recruiting challenges led to a worldwide spend of over $500 billion last year, the highest in history. To win the war for talent, equality and merit have to be a priority. Censia helps its clients scale faster, with better people, that stay longer, for a fraction of the time and cost it takes today. Censia cuts the cost to hire down by 60 percent, fills roles in half the time it takes internal teams while driving up diversity across all clients.

August 9, 2019 – The future of talent acquisition has never been brighter. People are what makes every organization tick, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are poised to make hiring the most people-centric it's ever been. And truth be told, today the talent acquisition function in organizations is reactive. Talent professionals are not at fault. "Post and pray, go for volume sourcing strategies are nearly ubiquitous, and have years of momentum behind them," Joanna Riley, CEO and co-founder of talent acquisition provider Censia said in a new report.