Greg Hes has a new iPad after winning the RiseSmart Challenge, the March Madness office pool for Transition Concierge participants.

Participants in the RiseSmart Challenge love their blue, but they disagree on what shade. So as the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament gets under way, entrants overwhelmingly favor the Kentucky Wildcats or the North Carolina Tar Heels to win it all.

Kentucky is getting plenty of respect this year as the tournament’s top seed, but some pundits have said their path to the Final Four may not be a smooth one. The hopes of the Carolina faithful likely rest on star John Henson, who injured his wrist in a recent win over Maryland.

RiseSmart is excited to announce that we have named former Drake Beam Morin (DBM) senior vice president Kim Johnson vice president of sales, as we continue to disrupt the human capital management industry with our technology, leadership and accountability to our customers.

In a newly published Fast Company article, Lydia Dishman dishes on the market environment that has spawned a new cloud-based recruitment offering from Monster.

Writes Dishman:

Jim Holincheck, research vice president for Gartner specializing in the human capital management (HCM) systems market, recently offered his opinion that cloud-based technology promises to have a transformative effect on the U.S. outplacement industry.

Said Holincheck:

As a growing percentage of leading corporations apply cloud-based solutions to improve their HR processes, many have neglected to upgrade a key component of the talent management lifecycle: effective offboarding.