CandorIQ

Your feed is probably filled with scary news and ads, so—to brighten it up—here are 🖐five🖐 good things from our team's East Coast tour this week: 1️⃣ In a remote world, face-to-face client meetings feel even more special (and productive). 2️⃣ A few team members got to see some Off Broadway together—one of them was even given a speaking role. 🙊 3️⃣ We hosted two great events in NYC and Boston with dozens of People and Compensation leaders. Hearing about their priorities and road blocks, scheming with them about how we can continue to help. 4️⃣ The team was absolutely spoiled with great weather and views! ☀️🏙️ 5️⃣ In-person collaboration—by train, in-offices, over drinks (and GIANT steaks). We've built a team that works hard remotely, but who cherishes those in-person jam sessions. We'd love for you to share: What's a "good thing" from your week?

Does it get more romantic than Haris Ikram telling the CandorIQ founding story beneath the lights of New York City? Compensation + Headcount Planning, HR's greatest love story! 😍

Train or Plane! CandorIQ goes where our customers, partners, prospects and friends are! Next stop on the east coast roadshow = Boston excited to catch up and we're hosting a dinner. details below!

Have 15 minutes of email clearing time blocked out today? (or 12min at 1.25 speed ⚡️) That's just enough time to get a lightning round overview of: • How and why CandorIQ came to be • The ways Haris Ikram & Sutthipong Thavisomboon are leveraging their past unicorn and enterprise tech experience to disrupt the space • What we're doing with AI—or rather what YOU can do with our AI! Thank you Wisdomplexus for having Haris on your #ExtraMile podcast. Listen to it here: https://lnkd.in/d3cPWT_G

Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and now Gen Alpha—four generations, four different relationships with work. In this clip from our webinar Beyond the Paycheck, Dave and Sean share how personalization and wellbeing are reshaping total rewards. It’s no longer about one-size-fits-all pay or perks. It’s about designing flexible, human-centered systems that help every employee thrive—no matter their stage of life or career. How are you personalizing your rewards strategy for a multigenerational workforce? For a full replay of the webinar, use the link in the comments!

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It’s Friday—let’s end the week with a customer win. This week, one Finance Director told us: “This seems so much easier and more transparent than what we do now.” If your HR team isn’t pulling Finance into workforce planning for 2026 yet, you’re missing out on an easier way forward. Shoutout to our Head of Customer Success and Advisory, Chad Atwell for capturing the moment—perfect Friday energy to close out the week.

The obvious cost of headcount is added compensation. But how about the hidden costs when your hiring strategy is off? Katie Wagner and Haris Ikram just met to discuss all things talent and headcount planning—specifically how to avoid pitfalls that could cost your org big time. If you missed it live, watch the full webinar on-demand here: https://lnkd.in/gFBhXwYg 🙏 Big thanks to the brilliant Katie Wagner for joining us today!🙏

Hiring isn’t broken—the forecast is. Every founder has lived the cycle: Finance locks the budget, Talent staffs against the plan, and then Sales closes a whale or Product commits to a new feature. Suddenly, headcount needs surge, recruiting looks “too slow,” and leadership is scrambling in fire-drill mode. In this live conversation, Katie Wagner (Principal, Advisory at Growth by Design Talent; Advisor at Tarro; author of Talent in Beta) and Haris Ikram (Co-Founder & CEO of CandorIQ) will unpack why headcount plans so often collapse under real-world pressure—and what to do about it. They’ll dig into: • Why headcount forecasts break down (and the hidden costs for founders) • How Talent, Finance, and the business can build a “translation layer” that actually works • What a living headcount plan looks like—one that flexes with revenue, product shifts, and hiring velocity • The wishlist for the future: AI-assisted forecasting, scenario planning, and a single source of truth across teams If you’ve ever asked “why can’t recruiting keep up?”—this session is for you. You’ll walk away with frameworks for designing headcount plans that align with business realities, reduce fire drills, and set your teams up to scale sustainably.

One of the absolute BEST parts of my day is when one of our HR customers brings in a Finance colleague to see how CandorIQ makes the entire business better at workforce planning. Today's quote from the Finance Director who is maintaining worksheets and chasing down slack messages: "This seems so much easier and more transparent than what we do now." If you're in HR and not collaborating with Finance on workforce planning for 2026, book a demo with us. You can lighten the load of your Finance friends, and put yourself at the center of workforce planning at your organization. https://lnkd.in/gumHXWkE #HRTech #headcount #workforce #compensation #HR #finance #bettertogether