Phenom Named Highest-Designated Leader in Everest Group’s Inaugural Skills Intelligence PEAK Matrix Assessment for 2025

Phenom Tops Everest Group’s Skills Intelligence PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025

Phenom has been recognized as a Leader in Everest Group's inaugural Skills Intelligence PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025. This evaluation highlights technology providers delivering AI and automation solutions centered on skills to enhance talent agility.

Phenom’s Intelligent Talent Experience platform uses AI to create skills-first talent processes that help organizations hire faster, develop employees effectively, and boost retention.

Why Skills Intelligence Matters Now

The assessment reviewed 29 technology providers based on market impact, vision, and capability, reflecting the rising need for skills-first talent strategies. Businesses face growing pressure to adapt as workforce demands shift and new technical skills become essential.

Sharath Hari, Vice President at Everest Group, emphasized Phenom’s strengths: “Phenom delivers AI-powered, skills-first talent experiences with a comprehensive skills ontology that supports dynamic job-candidate matching, skill inferencing, and fit scoring. Their platform integrates talent marketplaces, skill-gap analytics, and personalized learning, backed by partnerships with major HCM, ATS, and LXP providers.”

Enterprise Skills Intelligence at Scale

Many organizations struggle to get a clear picture of their workforce skills. Traditional mapping can take years, but Phenom’s AI-driven approach reduces this to days. Their proprietary, industry-specific skills ontologies adapt to each company’s structure and evolving business needs.

• Speedy skills mapping—from months or years down to days
• Accurate skills inferencing from unstructured data sources
• Full integration across the talent lifecycle—from acquisition to management
• Data standardization through deep integration with major HR systems
• Multichannel skills validation including assessments and peer endorsements
• Strategic workforce planning with skill gap identification, career pathing, and external hiring plans
• Autonomous execution via agentic AI with strong data governance

From Skills Data to Actionable Results

Collecting skills data is only part of the challenge. Translating it into actionable insights is where many get stuck. Phenom offers a complimentary Skills Snapshot assessment to help organizations understand their current capabilities and plan next steps.

Their ontologies link skills to tasks and productivity, giving HR leaders clear insights into growth opportunities, workforce financial impact, and development paths.

Customer results demonstrate tangible benefits:

• A Fortune 500 company achieved 37% of hires through internal moves
• A global pharmaceutical firm centralized over 200,000 skills and 29,000 learning options
• A global retailer boosted internal applicants by 129% and cut time-to-fill by 89%
• A major bank reached a 47% internal fill rate with 70% of employees adding an average of 23 new skills each

Phenom’s Impact Across Talent Functions

More than 700 companies worldwide use Phenom’s Intelligent Talent Experience platform. It supports candidates, employees, recruiters, talent marketers, hiring managers, and HR teams by helping:

• Candidates find the right jobs faster
• Employees develop skills and grow
• Recruiters increase productivity
• Talent marketers engage efficiently
• Talent leaders optimize hiring and onboarding
• Managers build high-performing teams
• HR aligns development with company goals
• HRIT integrates existing HR systems into a unified infrastructure

About Phenom

Phenom’s mission is to help a billion people find the right work. Their AI-powered platform seamlessly connects all talent stakeholders with products like Phenom X+ Agentic AI, Career Site, Chatbot, Talent CRM, Automated Interview Scheduling, Talent Marketplace, Workforce Intelligence, Career Pathing, and more.

Phenom has earned multiple industry recognitions, including Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies for five years and Deloitte Technology’s Fast 500 for four years. Headquartered near Philadelphia, Phenom also operates offices in India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK.

To explore how skills-first AI can transform your talent strategy and to request a complimentary Skills Snapshot, visit Phenom’s website.