Phenom is the Highest-Designated Leader in Everest Group’s First Skills Intelligence PEAK Matrix® Assessment

PHILADELPHIA, June 18, 2025 — Phenom, an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain employees longer, has been named a Leader in Everest Group's Skills Intelligence PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 for delivering AI and automation — with skills as a foundational element.

The inaugural Skills Intelligence Platforms PEAK Matrix® Assessment evaluates 29 leading technology providers across market impact and vision and capability, reflecting the growing global demand for skills-first talent strategies. This assessment is particularly relevant as organizations globally face increased pressure to adopt skills-first approaches in response to rapid workforce shifts, emerging technical needs, and evolving business priorities.

According to Sharath Hari, Vice President, Everest Group:

“Phenom has been recognized as a Leader in Everest Group's Skills Intelligence PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 for delivering AI-enabled, skills-first talent experiences through its Intelligent Talent Experience platform."

“With a comprehensive skills ontology that spans industry-specific domains, Phenom enables dynamic job and candidate matching, robust skills inferencing, and fit scoring to drive smarter workforce decisions. Its integrated approach to internal talent marketplaces, skill-gap analytics, and learning personalization supports workforce transformation. Backed by partnerships with major HCM, ATS, and LXP providers, and recent innovations in AI via Phenom X+, it empowers enterprises to create connected and agile talent ecosystems.”

Enterprise Skills Intelligence at Scale

Organizations struggle to envision a skills-forward future when they cannot clearly see what capabilities they have today — a mapping process that traditionally takes years to complete now takes a few days with AI.

Unlike static skills databases, Phenom’s proprietary ontologies create dynamic, industry-specific data foundations that adapt to organizational structure, business needs, and market evolution. This framework empowers companies with:

• Rapid skills mapping (months or years to days)

• Precise skills inferencing from unstructured data

• Comprehensive talent lifecycle integration across acquisition and management

• Data standardization powered by deep integrations with major HCM, ATS, and L&D providers

• Multichannel skills validation supporting assessments as well as manager and peer endorsements

• Strategic workforce planning and personalized development with skill gap identification, resource optimization, career pathing, and external hiring plan

• Autonomous execution through agentic AI with built-in governance ensuring data quality and validity

Transforming Skills Strategy into Results

Most organizations get stuck analyzing skills data without knowing how to act on it. For organizations facing skills visibility challenges, Phenom offers a complimentary Skills Snapshot assessment to provide clarity and direction for moving forward.

Phenom’s company-specific ontologies illuminate the relationships between skills, tasks, work and productivity, providing HR leaders with intelligence on business growth areas, financial modeling of workforce decisions, and detailed talent development opportunities.

“Being recognized as a Leader in this inaugural skills PEAK report is another demonstration of the breadth and depth of Phenom’s platform,” said John Deal, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Phenom. “Not only do we continue to innovate with more products using skills as a foundation, we show customers real value in the form of increased productivity, engagement and cost savings without sacrificing quality or visibility to internal talent.”

Customer implementations demonstrate measurable impact:

• A Fortune 500 company generated 37% of hires from internal moves

• A global pharmaceutical company collected 200,000+ skills and centralized 29,000+ learning opportunities

• A global retailer increased internal applicants by 129% while decreasing time to fill by 89%

• A major bank achieved a 47% internal fill rate with 70% of their workforce adding an average of 23 skills each

More than 700 companies around the world are successfully adopting Phenom’s Intelligent Talent Experience platform to help candidates find and choose the right job faster, employees develop their skills and evolve, recruiters become highly productive, talent marketers engage with extreme efficiency, talent leaders optimize hiring and onboarding processes, managers build stronger-performing teams, HR aligns employee development with company goals, and HRIT easily integrates existing HR tech to create a holistic infrastructure.

To learn more about Phenom’s leadership position, read the blog.

For organizations facing skills confusion, the right next step is to request a Skills Snapshot here.

About Phenom

Phenom has a purpose of helping a billion people find the right work. Through AI-powered talent experiences, employers use Phenom to hire and onboard employees faster, develop them to their full potential, and retain them longer. The Phenom Intelligent Talent Experience platform seamlessly connects candidates, employees, recruiters, talent marketers, talent leaders, hiring managers, HR and HRIT — empowering diverse and global enterprises with innovative products including Phenom X+ Agentic AI and Generative AI, Career Site, Chatbot, CMS, Talent CRM, X+ Screening, Automated Interview Scheduling, Interview Intelligence, Talent Experience Engine, Campaigns, University Recruiting, Contingent Talent Hiring, Onboarding, Talent Marketplace, Workforce Intelligence, Career Pathing, Gigs, Mentoring, and Referrals.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (5 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology’s Fast 500 (4 consecutive years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimising HelpOneBillion.com (2020).

Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit www.phenom.com. Connect with Phenom on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

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