Phenom Named a Leader in IDC Marketscape: Worldwide Talent Intelligence 2025 Vendor Assessment

PHILADELPHIA – November 13, 2025 – Phenom, the leader in applied AI that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer, announced it is a Leader in the IDC Marketscape: Worldwide Talent Intelligence 2025 Vendor Assessment.

The report evaluated 17 talent intelligence vendors across capabilities and strategies. According to IDC research, “The global talent landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by persistent skills shortages; rapid technological evolution, especially in AI; and the need for more agile, data-driven approaches to talent management. By 2026, IT skills shortages will affect over 90% of organizations worldwide, resulting in an estimated $5.5 trillion in lost revenue, product delays, quality issues, and reduced competitiveness.”

Phenom helps companies apply intelligence and automation for meaningful value through an advanced AI infrastructure that removes information and system silos. Phenom’s X+ Ontologies, which map relationships between roles, skills and tasks, not only reveal talent gaps but present opportunities to address them through automation and augmentation rather than hiring alone. The ontologies incorporate industry-specific insights and continuously learn from hiring patterns and internal mobility, helping organizations anticipate future needs. A robust governance framework ensures human oversight and transparent decision-making throughout.

“Phenom is positioned in the talent intelligence market, offering AI-powered candidate relationship management, robust applicant tracking integrations for seamless dataflow, and a native skills framework backed by deep industry expertise. Its skills-driven solutions address critical buyer pain points, such as the lack of actionable skills intelligence and the inability to connect insights to execution,” said Abhinav Shrivastava, Research Manager – Talent Acquisition and Strategy at IDC.

Beyond technology, Phenom is transforming how companies implement AI solutions. Through the industry’s only AI bootcamp and hands-on Path to Value workshops, Phenom guides organizations through a thorough assessment of their AI and automation maturity, explores what’s possible, and delivers a detailed roadmap that accelerates time to value and turns AI investments into measurable business outcomes.

 “We believe this recognition validates our commitment to addressing the talent challenges that HR leaders are grappling with,” said John Deal, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Phenom. “Organizations need technology that goes beyond just cataloging skills. Phenom gives candidates and employees a clear view of their career possibilities while providing employers with the workforce intelligence necessary to execute their global business strategy.”

Continuing Phenom’s dedication to Applied AI, the company announced three major innovations at its IAMPHENOM conference in Europe last week, redefining how enterprises apply AI to connect strategy with talent execution and turn workforce data into coordinated action:

• Enterprise Talent Optimization & Work Redesign. Connects business priorities directly to workforce action through task-level intelligence to analyze each role and reveal what can be automated or enhanced with AI

• Frontline Workforce Lifecycle & Shift Scheduling. Extends the frontline experience to encompass the entire workforce lifecycle, including shift scheduling, internal mobility, referrals, communication and alumni engagement

• Unified Orchestration Engine. Combines decision engines with simulations guided by agent operating policies and corporate governance to orchestrate workflows across the talent ecosystem while keeping humans in control

To see why Phenom continues to receive industry accolades, book a demo.

With Phenom, candidates find and choose the right job faster, employees develop their skills and evolve, recruiters become wildly 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.

About Phenom

Phenom is an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer. By uniquely combining proprietary industry-specific AI, agentic AI, automation and personalized experiences, its Intelligent Talent Experience platform helps companies fundamentally reshape their HR processes and strategies for scalable and sustainable transformation. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, Phenom takes a holistic approach that unifies the entire talent journey, augmenting human capabilities and creating a symbiotic relationship between technology and talent.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (6 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 optimizing 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.

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

* IDC MarketScape, Worldwide Talent Intelligence 2025 Vendor Assessment, doc #US52995425 and November 2025