背调巨头First Advantage以22亿美元完成对Sterling Check的收购,
2024年10月31日，美国亚特兰大 — 作为全球就业背景筛查、身份和验证解决方案的领先供应商，First Advantage Corporation（纳斯达克代码：FA）今天宣布，公司已经成功完成对Sterling Check Corp的收购。此次交易的总价值达到了惊人的22亿美元，包括承担Sterling现有的债务。这一战略性收购不仅显著扩大了First Advantage的服务范围，也增强了其在全球背景筛查和身份验证市场的竞争力。
First Advantage的总裁兼首席执行官斯科特·斯台普斯（Scott Staples）在宣布收购完成时表示：“我们非常高兴能欢迎Sterling的才华横溢的团队加入First Advantage。通过整合双方的业务和共享文化属性，我们将更好地满足客户需求，并为我们的股东创造价值。这次合并将使我们能够通过提供高质量、成本效益的解决方案，增强我们的价值主张，帮助客户更智能地招聘，更快地入职，并保护他们最重要的资产：人才。”
此次合并将结合两家公司在背景筛查和身份验证领域的领先技术平台和创新解决方案，以交付更优的客户体验，并扩展及多元化First Advantage的垂直和地理市场覆盖，创造一个更加平衡的业务组合。并且，该交易预计将实现50至70百万美元的常年协同效应，立即对每股收益产生双位数的增长。
Sterling的加入，增强了First Advantage在提供移动优先、高度直观且数据驱动的客户和申请人体验方面的专业能力。这一优势将通过加速创新投资进一步发挥，客户将获得更广泛的产品和解决方案套件以满足其需求，这将推动合并公司的增长。合并后的公司预计在客户细分、行业和地理多样性方面拥有更大的收入分布，减少季节性波动，并提高资源规划和运营效率。
斯台普斯继续指出：“Sterling的收购定位First Advantage于长期价值创造，解锁效率并为额外增长和新技术解决方案的投资提供机会，包括AI驱动的自动化，同时进一步多样化我们的业务以增强韧性。展望未来，我们致力于促进企业文化的无缝整合，继续向我们的客户提供世界级的解决方案，快速有效地执行我们的协同计划，并去杠杆化我们的资产负债表。我们期待在即将到来的2024年第三季度财报电话会议中分享关于我们未来组织结构和战略的更多细节。”
此外，为完成这项交易，First Advantage获得了J.P. Morgan Securities LLC的领导财务顾问服务。Barclays Bank PLC、BofA Securities, Inc.、BMO Capital Markets Corp.、Jefferies Finance LLC、RBC Capital Markets、Citizens Capital Markets、HSBC、KKR Capital Markets LLC、Stifel和Wells Fargo Securities, LLC也为First Advantage提供了财务咨询服务。Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP担任交易的法律顾问。
对于Sterling，Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC和Citi提供了财务顾问服务，而Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP则担任其法律顾问。此次合并强化了First Advantage作为行业领导者的地位，使其在全球范围内提供更为高效和全面的就业背景筛查与身份验证服务的能力进一步提升。
随着市场对背景筛查服务的需求持续增长，First Advantage通过这次战略性收购，不仅能够扩大其市场份额，还能通过引入更先进的技术解决方案来提升服务质量和效率，满足客户的需求，并进一步巩固其在全球背景筛查市场的领导地位。
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LinkedIn推出AI招聘助手：重新定义未来招聘流程LinkedIn Enters AI Agent Race With LinkedIn Hiring Assistant
LinkedIn推出了首个AI Agent : Hiring Assistant，旨在帮助招聘人员重新成为招聘人员。
LinkedIn于本周推出了全新的AI招聘助手，这款工具旨在自动化招聘过程中高达80%的工作，特别是候选人筛选和招聘前的步骤。通过与LinkedIn平台的无缝集成，这款助手不仅提高了招聘人员的工作效率，也显著提升了候选人的质量。该工具的“体验记忆”和“项目记忆”功能，可以记录招聘人员的搜索和操作习惯，并将所有与招聘项目相关的信息进行整合，从而智能化地优化招聘流程。
这款助手已经在西门子、Canva等公司的招聘流程中得到了应用，这些公司报告称，通过LinkedIn招聘助手，招聘人员的生产力显著提升，候选人质量也得到了极大的改善。招聘前的AI辅助搜索仅需30秒即可完成，而传统的搜索通常需要15分钟。
LinkedIn招聘助手还通过AI驱动的沟通功能改善了候选人的体验。数据显示，使用AI辅助发送的招聘信息的接受率提高了44%，接受速度也加快了11%。此外，AI搜索的候选人接受率高出18%。
随着越来越多的公司采用AI技术，招聘与候选人之间的竞争日益加剧。求职者也在利用AI工具优化简历，甚至在面试中使用AI辅助表现，从而使HR在筛选候选人时面临更多挑战。因此，LinkedIn招聘助手等工具正成为招聘人员不可或缺的助手。
LinkedIn招聘助手不仅仅是提高效率的工具，它真正的价值在于解放招聘人员，使他们能够专注于与候选人和招聘经理的对话，改善雇主品牌，并更好地了解就业市场。这种转变反映了人才获取的战略性转变——从执行角色转变为人才顾问，帮助公司更好地实现增长。
详细请看Josh Bersin 写的这篇介绍
As I discussed in the article Digital Twins, Digital Employees, Agents Everywhere, tech vendors are creating AI-powered Agents as fast as they can. And in HR, where we deal with hundreds of mundane checklist-types of processes, the opportunity for automation is everywhere.
This week, just as Microsoft launched a tools to help companies build Agents in Copilot, LinkedIn announced its Hiring Assistant. And this is a pretty amazing product.
The Hiring Assistant is the first highly-integrated agent I’ve seen that fits right into the LinkedIn workflow. And the companies using it now (Siemens, Canva, AMS) are seeing recruiter productivity and candidate quality skyrocket.
Here’s how to think about it: consider a schematic of the recruitment workflow.
As you can see, there are more than 30 steps to complete, and this doesn’t even include background checking, offer-letter generation, benefits discussions, pre-boarding, and onboarding.
With this brand new Assistant LinkedIn believes they can automate almost 80% of this pre-offer workflow. And the LinkedIn Hiring Assistant is just getting started.
Here are some screenshots of the workflow:
As you can see, the agent prompts the recruiter with intelligent responses and questions along the way. And throughout the process it stores more and more information to get smarter and smarter.
This Is A Sophisticated Product
This is a well-engineered product. Not only does it include many subtle features (ie. “find me a candidate like Joe,” which brings in Joe’s profile and analyzes Joe’s role, skills, and experience), it includes several platform innovations.
The first is something LinkedIn calls “Experiential Memory,” storing the recruiter’s search and activity history for future work. The Hiring Assistant learns what this recruiter is doing, how they communicate, and how they operate, to tune its results to each recruiter’s needs (ie. a tech recruiter vs. an executive recruiter).
Second is a feature called “Project Memory,” which brings together all the information about a single search project. This means the candidate selection criteria, emails, and input from hiring managers are stored in the project, enabling the assistant to see the whole experience of selection. Recruiters understand this challenge: every hire and every hiring manager is different, and each project has unique and sometimes new requirements which have nothing to do with the job description.
Other Agents Will Have To Take Notice
LinkedIn is not the first mover in this space, but the company’s credibility will accelerate the market. Paradox, the current leader in recruitment automation, has been automating high-volume recruiting for almost a decade and offers an agent that not only helps recruiters but also supports job seekers. It isn’t focused on sourcing liked LinkedIn, but it automates the rest of the process (candidate inquiries, interview scheduling, assessment, onboarding).
And it really works: this week Chipotle announced that Paradox’s solution reduces time to hire by 75%, making it a central part of the company’s growth strategy.
LinkedIn Hiring Assistant is receiving similar accolades.
“Doing a normal search before AI took upwards of 15 minutes. Now, with AI-Assisted Search, it takes about 30 seconds to get results. The time saved is tremendous. It is so much more convenient and easier doing it this way,” said Victoria Östryd Söderlind, Senior Recruitment Specialist, Toyota Material Handling Europe.
“The AI features on LinkedIn have allowed our recruiters to do more, to be better and to grow faster in all of our activities. It’s about spending time in the right places where our time is more valuable and LinkedIn’s AI features have enabled us to do that. What it’s not doing is removing great conversations with candidates, stopping our ability to ask them questions or getting to know candidates as people and humans,” said Olivia Brown, Head of Talent Acquisition, Octopus Energy.
Improving Candidate Experience
While LinkedIn talks about the value to HR, the bigger value may be for candidates. The company found that AI-Assisted outreach messages generate a 44% higher acceptance rate and are accepted 11% faster by job seekers. And AI-based searches produce 18% higher candidate acceptance. As Paradox has discovered, candidates don’t like to waste time scheduling calls with recruiters if they can avoid it.
And that leads to another important issue. There is now a growing AI battle between recruiter and candidates. AS AI helps recruiters source and screen candidates, the candidates are using AI to “power-up” their resumes. One of our clients told me that almost all their job applicants now submit resumes that look eerily similar to job descriptions. Why? Job candidates are using AI also!
This means is that tools like LinkedIn Hiring Assistant are more essential than ever. As job seekers tweak their identity and even use AI interview assessments to game interviews, HR has to beef up its tools to better differentiate candidates.
Liberating Recruiters To Recruit And Advise
The big story is actually this: while Hiring Assistant is an efficiency tool, what it really does is free up recruiters to talk to candidates. Recruiters who are bogged down with drudgery can talk with hiring managers, improve employment brand, and get to know candidates and the job market better. This is part of what we call Systemic HR: moving talent acquisition away from the “fulfillment center” role to that of a talent advisor, helping the company think about its best ways to grow.
As you look at these tools and think about automation, I encourage you to read our new research on the strategic shift in talent acquisition. Automation is not just about productivity and cost savings: it’s really about liberating our minds to think and add value in new and exciting ways.
美国国税局（IRS）公布2025年最新税收调整方案 IRS releases tax inflation adjustments for tax year 2025
华盛顿——美国国税局（IRS）近日宣布了2025纳税年度的年度通胀调整内容。这些调整涉及60多项税收规定的变更，影响纳税人从2026年报税季开始提交的申报。以下是2025年最受关注的税收调整：
主要调整
标准扣除额
单身纳税人和分开申报的已婚人士：标准扣除额提高到15,000美元（比2024年增加400美元）。
联合申报的已婚夫妇：标准扣除额提高到30,000美元（比2024年增加800美元）。
户主：标准扣除额提高到22,500美元（比2024年增加600美元）。
边际税率
37%税率：个人收入超过626,350美元（已婚联合申报超过751,600美元）。
35%税率：个人收入超过250,525美元（已婚联合申报超过501,050美元）。
32%税率：个人收入超过197,300美元（已婚联合申报超过394,600美元）。
24%税率：个人收入超过103,350美元（已婚联合申报超过206,700美元）。
22%税率：个人收入超过48,475美元（已婚联合申报超过96,950美元）。
12%税率：个人收入超过11,925美元（已婚联合申报超过23,850美元）。
10%税率：个人收入11,925美元及以下（已婚联合申报23,850美元及以下）。
其他显著变化
替代性最低税（AMT）豁免额
单身纳税人：豁免额提高至88,100美元（分开申报的已婚人士为68,650美元），逐步减少起点为626,350美元。
已婚联合申报：豁免额提高至137,000美元，逐步减少起点为1,252,700美元。
所得税抵免（EITC）
有三名或以上合格子女的纳税人，2025年最高所得税抵免金额为8,046美元（2024年为7,830美元）。
合格交通福利
月度限额提高到325美元（2024年为315美元）。
健康灵活支出账户（FSA）
员工薪资减少用于健康FSA的限额增加到3,300美元（2024年为3,200美元）。未使用金额的最大结转金额提高到660美元（2024年为640美元）。
医疗储蓄账户（MSA）
单人计划的年度免赔额范围：$2,850-$4,300，自付费用限额提高至**$5,700**。
家庭计划的年度免赔额范围：$5,700-$8,550，自付费用限额提高至**$10,500**。
海外收入排除
海外收入排除额提高到130,000美元（2024年为126,500美元）。
遗产税排除额
2025年遗产税基本排除额提高到13,990,000美元（2024年为13,610,000美元）。
年度赠与税豁免额
2025年增加到19,000美元（2024年为18,000美元）。
收养税收抵免
特殊需要儿童收养的最高抵免额增加到17,280美元（2024年为16,810美元）。
未调整项目
根据法律规定，以下项目保持不变：
个人豁免额：2025年仍为0，与2024年一致。
逐项扣除额限制：2025年仍无逐项扣除限制。
IR-2024-273, Oct. 22, 2024
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today the annual inflation adjustments for tax year 2025.
Revenue Procedure 2024-40 PDF provides detailed information on adjustments and changes to more than 60 tax provisions that will impact taxpayers when they file their returns in 2026.
Notable changes for tax year 2025
The tax year 2025 adjustments described below generally apply to income tax returns to be filed starting tax season 2026. The tax items for tax year 2025 of greatest interest to many taxpayers include the following dollar amounts:
Standard deductions. For single taxpayers and married individuals filing separately for tax year 2025, the standard deduction rises to $15,000 for 2025, an increase of $400 from 2024. For married couples filing jointly, the standard deduction rises to $30,000, an increase of $800 from tax year 2024. For heads of households, the standard deduction will be $22,500 for tax year 2025, an increase of $600 from the amount for tax year 2024.
Marginal rates. For tax year 2025, the top tax rate remains 37% for individual single taxpayers with incomes greater than $626,350 ($751,600 for married couples filing jointly). The other rates are:
35% for incomes over $250,525 ($501,050 for married couples filing jointly).
32% for incomes over $197,300 ($394,600 for married couples filing jointly).
24% for incomes over $103,350 ($206,700 for married couples filing jointly).
22% for incomes over $48,475 ($96,950 for married couples filing jointly).
12% for incomes over $11,925 ($23,850 for married couples filing jointly).
10% for incomes $11,925 or less ($23,850 or less for married couples filing jointly).
Alternative minimum tax exemption amounts. For tax year 2025, the exemption amount for unmarried individuals increases to $88,100 ($68,650 for married individuals filing separately) and begins to phase out at $626,350. For married couples filing jointly, the exemption amount increases to $137,000 and begins to phase out at $1,252,700.
Earned income tax credits. For qualifying taxpayers who have three or more qualifying children, the tax year 2025 maximum Earned Income Tax Credit amount is $8,046, an increase from $7,830 for tax year 2024. The revenue procedure contains a table providing maximum EITC amount for other categories, income thresholds and phase-outs.
Qualified transportation fringe benefit. For tax year 2025, the monthly limitation for the qualified transportation fringe benefit and the monthly limitation for qualified parking rises to $325, increasing from $315 in tax year 2024.
Health flexible spending cafeteria plans. For the taxable years beginning in 2025, the dollar limitation for employee salary reductions for contributions to health flexible spending arrangements rises to $3,300, increasing from $3,200 in tax year 2024. For cafeteria plans that permit the carryover of unused amounts, the maximum carryover amount rises to $660, increasing from $640 in tax year 2024.
Medical savings accounts. For tax year 2025, participants who have self-only coverage the plan must have an annual deductible that is not less than $2,850 (a $50 increase from the previous tax year), but not more than $4,300 (an increase of $150 from the previous tax year).
The maximum out-of-pocket expense amount rises to $5,700, increasing from $5,550 in tax year 2024.
For family coverage in tax year 2025, the annual deductible is not less than $5,700, increasing from $5,550 in tax year 2024; however, the deductible cannot be more than $8,550, an increase of $200 versus the limit for tax year 2024. For family coverage, the out-of-pocket expense limit is $10,500 for tax year 2025, rising from $10,200 in tax year 2024.
Foreign earned income exclusion. For tax year 2025, the foreign earned income exclusion increases to $130,000, from $126,500 in tax year 2024.
Estate tax credits. Estates of decedents who die during 2025 have a basic exclusion amount of $13,990,000, increased from $13,610,000 for estates of decedents who died in 2024.
Annual exclusion for gifts increases to $19,000 for calendar year 2025, rising from $18,000 for calendar year 2024.
Adoption credits. For tax year 2025, the maximum credit allowed for an adoption of a child with special needs is the amount of qualified adoption expenses up to $17,280, increased from $16,810 for tax year 2024.
Unchanged for tax year 2025
By statute, certain items that were indexed for inflation in the past are currently not adjusted.
Personal exemptions for tax year 2025 remain at 0, as in tax year 2024. The elimination of the personal exemption was a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
Itemized deductions. There is no limitation on itemized deductions for tax year 2025, as in tax year 2024 and preceding, to tax year 2018. The limitation on itemized deductions was eliminated by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
Lifetime learning credits. The modified adjusted gross income amount used by taxpayers to determine the reduction in the Lifetime Learning Credit provided in Sec. 25A(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code is not adjusted for inflation for taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 2020. The Lifetime Learning Credit is phased out for taxpayers with modified adjusted gross income in excess of $80,000 ($160,000 for joint returns).
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