Hackathons are now being used inside forward thinking Human Resource functions to re-invent the candidate and employee experience. What both of these hackathons have in common is the forward thinking HR leaders are moving outside of the HR silo and using design thinking to re-imagine HR. Jet.com Hackathon Improves The Candidate Experience With CasyThe Talent Experience team at Jet.com set out to create a hackathon to improve the job candidate experience at Jet.com, a subsidiary of Walmart. The Jet.com HR Hackathon developed by the Talent Experience team solves a particular problem in the candidate experience process by involving both HR and product and software designers. Within the 12 hours, the DBS HR Hackathon generated over 200 HR solutions from 340 DBS HR practitioners across 9 countries.

Source: Forbes September 27, 2017 18:45 UTC