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Background checks don’t sound like an obvious place to start with AI. But for one airline, it was a major bottleneck. Icelandair recently shared that every new hire needed: • 5-year history checks • Document validation • Approval from authorities And if anything was missing? Back to square one. So they rebuilt the process. Now: – Applicants submit everything once – AI reviews the application before it’s submitted – Gaps and errors are flagged early – Missing info is requested automatically – Only complete applications move forward The result? Months of work saved from a single workflow. It’s a good reminder that the best place to start with AI isn’t always the obvious one. It’s wherever your team is stuck doing the same checks, over and over again.

Peak season hits, and suddenly it's not just the weather heating up. It's hiring, onboarding and a growing to-do list. 🥵 For tourism and hospitality teams, that often means bringing in a wave of new starters, fast. That's when consistency becomes the challenge. Every new employee needs the same great experience, even when the pace picks up. AI and automation help HR teams keep every process moving, so no one gets missed when things get busy.

If you can describe it, you can automate it! That’s not a tagline. It’s literally how it works. 🙌 Most HR processes stay manual because no one has the time to: 🔹figure out the tools 🔹build the logic 🔹set everything up properly So they sit in emails, spreadsheets, and reminders. Now you just describe the process… or even say it out loud… and it’s done. From “we should automate this” to a live workflow in minutes, not months. If you want to try it for yourself, you can start a free trial or just get in touch and we’ll walk you through it.

Every week, another resource appears with "50 AI prompts every HR team should use." There's nothing wrong with prompts. They're a great way to explore what AI can do. But if you're using the same prompt every day, every week or every month... ...it's probably no longer a prompt. It's a workflow. The goal isn't to help HR teams become faster at copying and pasting prompts into AI. The goal is to remove repetitive work by making AI part of the process. Stop prompting. Start automating.

Most HR processes don't fail because they're difficult. They fail because they're interrupted. Someone is on holiday. Someone forgets. Someone is waiting for information. Someone assumes somebody else has done the next step. The process itself is usually straightforward. It's everything around it that creates the delays. The best opportunities for automation aren't usually the complicated tasks. They're the simple steps that people have to remember every single time. What's one HR process in your organisation that always seems to slow down, not because it's difficult, but because it depends on someone remembering the next step?

If your HR process only works because one person "just knows" how it works… it's not really a process. It's institutional knowledge. And it's one resignation, promotion or holiday away from breaking. You see it everywhere: - onboarding that depends on one HR colleague - approvals that live in someone's inbox - spreadsheets only one person understands - managers asking, "What happens next?" The problem isn't usually the people. It's that the process only exists in their heads. When you map the workflow properly, everything changes. Everyone follows the same steps. Nothing gets forgotten. Progress is visible. The repetitive work can be automated. That's how you build processes that scale without relying on memory. What's the one HR process in your organisation that would be hardest to hand over today?

The biggest HR problems don't usually live inside your HR systems. They live between them. Between the HRIS and payroll. Between recruitment and onboarding. Between HR and IT. Between a manager clicking "approve" and everything that should happen next. That's why we're so interested in automated workflows. Not because they replace great HR systems. Because they help connect them into one employee experience.

We’ve been named a finalist in the TALiNT Partners Europe TIARA Awards, in the Tech Talent Innovation category 🏆 We are excited to be shortlisted for the way we’re approaching AI differently. Not just generating outputs, but helping HR and recruitment teams turn ideas into working processes they can actually use. With 50skills, you can describe a process in plain text and turn it into a live workflow in minutes. It puts the people who know the process best in control of building and improving it. That's what's helping organisations move from AI that's interesting, to AI that genuinely changes how work gets done. Good luck to everyone else shortlisted 👏

Employee wellbeing shouldn't create more work for HR! As organisations introduce more wellbeing benefits, from employee assistance programmes and cycle to work schemes to eye care, social events and wellbeing allowances, things can quickly become fragmented. Different policies. Different platforms. Endless emails. Manual approvals. Employees wondering what's happening with their request. We explore why wellbeing processes often become more complicated than they need to be, and how automation can help create a smoother experience for both HR teams and employees. Catch the full session here: https://lnkd.in/eHCcK639 How are you managing employee wellbeing benefits today? We'd love to hear what's working and what's proving tricky.

Most HR teams have one. The spreadsheet that somehow keeps everything moving. 😩 For Airport Associates, it worked well… until things got busier. More hires, more moving parts, more to keep track of across onboarding, offboarding, and role changes. As their team put it: “We used to manage everything with Excel checklists and a lot of manual follow-up.” Nothing unusual there. Just a setup that starts to feel stretched as things grow. So they took a different approach. Instead of relying on checklists, they built workflows that handle the steps automatically. The same processes, just with less back-and-forth and more consistency. The result? • Hundreds of hours saved each year • Fewer manual touchpoints • A smoother experience for both HR and employees A small shift in how the work gets done. A big difference over time. Read the full success story here: https://lnkd.in/e8qqw_MH