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HR as the Driving Force Behind ESG: Building a Responsible Business
Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world. Indra Nooyi former CEO of PepsiCo Today, people are increasingly considering how their decisions impact the world. They choose reusable bags over plastic ones (according to research, 72% of consumers say they now buy more eco-friendly products than they did five […]

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HR Business Partner and Change Leader: Why It’s Crucial for Business Success? – Expert Opinion by Olena Rubanets, People & Culture Country Lead at SimCorp Ukraine
Automation of administrative processes, among other things, provides HR specialists with more opportunities to focus on strategic initiatives. Today’s HR is no longer just an employee immersed in routine personnel tasks; this is a manager focused on enhancing the liquidity of a company’s main asset – its people. In the most successful companies, this transformation […]

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HR Trends in 2025: What Changes to Expect and How to Learn to Manage Them
If you don’t like change, you will like irrelevance even less General Eric Shinseki In 2025, HR will continue to transform alongside the modern business market. Companies that aim for success will need to encourage their HR managers to shift from a reactive to a proactive working style, from an administrative to a strategic approach. […]

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Investment in Unibank’s main asset: how SMART HCM & LMS helped strengthen the company’s human capital
Customer service continues to evolve towards hyper-personalization. This development vector is transforming various areas of business, and the financial sector is no exception. Modern banks want to be not only stable and reliable, but also strive to find an individual approach to their clients, becoming more accessible, understandable and convenient. For example, mobile banks are […]

Releases
SMART HCM & LMS Release 25
Authorization via Google, updates to the “Goals” module functionality, and improvements in learning administration processes We are pleased to announce the release of updates that will significantly enhance your experience with our product. Thanks to new features such as Google authorization, updated filters, and interface in the Events Catalog, as well as improvements in learning […]

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Small Talks – Great Results: How 1:1 Change the Corporate Culture
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford In times of active digitalization and rapid development of artificial intelligence, simple human communication acquires new value. Indeed, AI can be a useful assistant in process automation, but it can never replace human connection. After all, a strong and well-coordinated […]
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“Work as a favorite brand”: Anna-Maria Fokshei on how employer branding makes a team stronger
The SMART business team continues to share the best HR practices from industry experts. This time, we met with Anna-Maria Fokshei, Head of Employer Branding & Culture at Room 8 Group, winner of the All-Ukrainian HR Pro Awards in the “Future Star” nomination. Anna-Maria shared her professional insights and experience in building an employer brand; […]
21 Feb 2024 14 min read

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How to prevent HR burnout
Those who experience burnout at work are not those who are indifferent, but rather those who sincerely invest their internal resources in colleagues, business partners, clients, an unending stream of tasks, or a certain long-term and energy-consuming goal. Burnout affects those who possess what is often called an inner fire—a professional spark—without which there is […]
19 Feb 2024 12 min read

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Meet SMART Payroll and SMART HCM & LMS Connector
We are pleased to share the news: SMART HCM & LMS and SMART Payroll teams have introduced a new product — SMART Payroll and SMART HCM & LMS Connector. The main purpose of this product is to ensure uninterrupted data exchange between both systems. Objects that are transferred and updated from SMART Payroll are automatically […]
02 Feb 2024 2 min read

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Developing an HR strategy: Who is responsible and what are the main steps?
It’s hard to imagine any modern business without human resource management. This department is literally the heart of the company. It is not just a service department but an important strategic arena. The HR department develops and implements solutions aimed at ensuring the highest efficiency and success of the company by improving the interaction between […]
19 Dec 2023 8 min read

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Gamification in HR: Employees play—business wins
Gaming technologies have been used in the corporate environment for a long time and quite successfully. They help companies find effective approaches to solving a wide range of business problems, from training and motivating employees to increasing sales. It is not surprising that the global gamification market continues to grow rapidly. While in 2021 it […]
20 Sep 2023 9 min read

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How to build and automate effective HR processes? The experience of «Continental Farmers Group»
For several years now, we have been observing a trend where HRs are acting as agents of change in companies, transforming not only business processes but also the general vectors of movement, approaches and tools that can be used to achieve these changes, The beginning of the war has brought the need to quickly adapt […]
15 Sep 2023 5 min read
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