CodeSignal now runs the assessments for The Josh Bersin Company's Global HR Excellence Certification. The San Francisco-based skills platform designed the scenario-based tests, which ask HR leaders to diagnose business problems, recommend action, and explain their reasoning. The 12-week program, offered with USC Marshall Executive Education, covers 10 HR domains. It ends with a timed, proctored assessment built around four scenarios: HR strategy, responsible use of data and AI, work redesign, and talent quality. In one scenario, participants play a senior HR leader facing a merger or technology rollout, then defend their plan to an AI role-play counterpart. Responses are scored against a detailed rubric. "Too many professional certifications measure completion, not capability," said Josh Bersin, chief executive officer of The Josh Bersin Company.

TalentNeuron and CodeSignal expand partnership to offer the most comprehensive skills intelligence in the market. Nov 09, 2026, 08:47 ET Partnership combines market and competitor insights with validated skills measured from employees' real work to power build, buy, borrow, and bot workforce decisions NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - TalentNeuron, the workforce intelligence and planning company used by 60% of the Fortune 100, today announced an expanded partnership with CodeSignal, the agentic skills intelligence platform. Together, the two companies offer the most comprehensive skills intelligence available to employers: the skills that exist in the labor market and among competitors, the skills an organization's people have, and objective validation of how well they apply them. Organizations can use that intelligence to identify skills gaps in their current and future workforce, and then act to close them. AI is reshaping the tasks inside many roles, and skill requirements shift from quarter to quarter, yet most workforce plans still run on an annual cycle and rely on skills data employees report themselves, which is often inaccurate or out of date. Decisions made on that basis are hard to defend. Skills intelligence at every level TalentNeuron's skills intelligence is built into its data architecture and surfaces wherever workforce planning happens. Across the labor market, it shows how skills are evolving and trending, which skills are adjacent to one another, and the top skills for each role and industry. It also shows which skills business and talent competitors are hiring for, by role and location, how that has changed over time, and how those competitors define the skill expectations of each role. Inside the organization, TalentNeuron shows which skills in a company's own job architecture are rising or falling in demand, maps them against nearly 4,000 normalized market roles, and flags emerging market skills that are missing from internal role definitions. It builds a skills profile for each employee from CVs and LinkedIn profiles, extends it through skills adjacency, and supports manager validation of those skills. CodeSignal adds evidence of how well employees apply skills on the job. Its agents evaluate the real work employees produce in the tools they already use, such as GitHub, Salesforce, and Gong, against structured rubrics grounded in industrial-organizational psychology. The approach builds on the skills science behind more than 21 million skill evaluations completed on CodeSignal. This creates living skills profiles that update as people demonstrate their skills. When gaps emerge, Cosmo, CodeSignal's AI coach, builds tailored practice based on each person's work to help them improve. Leaders can use that evidence alongside TalentNeuron's market and competitor insights to understand where workforce capabilities meet business needs and where to invest next. From skills gaps to decisions With that intelligence, organizations can see the skills gaps in their current workforce, by location, talent segment or other workforce variables, and project the gaps they will face over a multi-year planning horizon based on the skills their strategy requires. Those gaps then drive the choice of how to close them: build, buy, borrow or bot. Measured skills help leaders identify which capabilities to develop and where employees could move into new opportunities. Cosmo, CodeSignal's AI coach, supports that development with contextualized practice and coaching tailored to the skills each person needs to strengthen. TalentNeuron's labor market intelligence shows where, what and when to hire, with continuously updated data on talent supply, cost, demand and competitor hiring. TalentNeuron also shows which tasks are exposed to automation, informing bot and borrow decisions. "Skills intelligence is built into the foundation of everything we do, and it shows up wherever our customers make workforce planning decisions. With the addition of objective validation from CodeSignal, our customers now have the most complete view of skills available anywhere," said David Wilkins, CEO of TalentNeuron. "Even as automation grows, build and buy are still the two biggest decisions every organization makes. CodeSignal's validated skills tell you when to build, who to develop, and how. TalentNeuron's labor market intelligence tells you where, what, and when to buy. Between us, leaders now have access to an unassailable data set." "Leaders need to know who can take on the work ahead and who could get there with the right support," said Tigran Sloyan, CEO and co-founder of CodeSignal. "CodeSignal measures what employees can do from the work they already produce, then helps them build the skills they need next. Alongside TalentNeuron's market intelligence, that gives organizations a stronger basis for making strategic workforce planning decisions." Availability The expanded partnership is available today. TalentNeuron and CodeSignal customers can start using the two companies' capabilities together immediately by contacting their account team. See it at TalentNeuron Live The expanded CodeSignal partnership will be part of the agenda at TalentNeuron Live on Nov. 18, where David Wilkins and Tigran Sloyan will discuss the current state of skills intelligence and strategic workforce planning. Register here. About TalentNeuron TalentNeuron is the only solution that drives workforce transformation by unifying internal talent intelligence and external market insight. Over 60% of the Fortune100 are using TalentNeuron to move beyond fragmented talent planning and toward a model where strategic workforce decisions are made through comprehensive analytics, including demand forecasting, automation impact analysis, scenario modeling, and talent optimization. Powered by advanced AI and machine learning, TalentNeuron delivers real-time workforce intelligence across markets representing over 96% of global GDP. With this intelligence, organizations use TalentNeuron to understand labor market and competitor trends, identify current and future skill requirements and gaps, and shape a future-ready workforce. About CodeSignal CodeSignal helps companies build the skills to succeed now, and adapt as the future of work changes. It's the agentic skills intelligence platform, built on a simple belief: the biggest decisions about people should rely on proof, not proxies. For years, talent has been judged by resumes, titles, self-ratings, and inferred data, sources that only hint at what someone can really do. CodeSignal measures real skills through rigorous simulation-based assessments and in-depth evaluation of people's actual work. CodeSignal spans the full talent journey, from hiring assessments and AI interviews to hands-on skills development and workforce planning. With skills intelligence that measures work as it happens, leaders see where their teams stand, what to coach next, and where to plan ahead. It's why companies like Capital One, Meta, and Dropbox, along with millions of people building their own skills, have made CodeSignal the standard for measuring what's real. SOURCE TalentNeuron