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Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom
Juneteenth is not just Black history; it is American history and we encourage you to take some time to learn and be vulnerable in your understanding of this day. Juneteenth (June 19) sometimes called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is the day commemorated as the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19,…
Read MoreRecalibrating Memorial Day
For many of us, Memorial Day has become the official start of summer. We recognize its original intent with a quick “thank you for your service” and then move on to planning our neighborhood barbecue. But recent events demand that we take a few minutes to reflect on the true purpose of this day of…
Read MoreTwo New nextSource Programs Helping Overcome Talent Scarcity
Most organizations today are struggling under the same burdensome challenge when it comes to developing and maintaining an effective, efficient workforce. That is, we’re all dealing with an acute scarcity of available talent to populate our contingent workforce (and our full-time workforce for that matter). While it has historically been important for all the players…
Read MoreEmbrace of Work-from-Home Arrangements Poised to Remake Workforce Management Practices
A pair of recent articles about the unplanned migration of the workforce to work-from-home arrangements paint a provocative picture of what the future is likely to hold for workforce planning and labor markets in general. What are trends suggesting with regard to work-from-home arrangements and how will these trends modulate over time as circumstances evolve?…
Read MoreBest Questions to Ask When Assessing the “Cultural Fit” of a Candidate
When interviewing candidates, job experience and work history are often the area’s most heavily scrutinized. Yet, the extent to which a candidate will effectively fit in with the culture of the hiring organization is almost equally as important. After all, a worker may be experienced and capable, but if they’re dramatically out of step with…
Read MoreExamine the Efficacy of MSP Vendors in Light of COVID Stressors
Staffing industry experts, like many other industry experts, are looking for the silver lining in the clouds of the pandemic. While there is nothing positive about the death and economic destruction wrought by the novel Coronavirus, there are some benefits that can be teased out of the destruction. For example, the stresses put upon existing…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Changes May Drive White Collar Workers into Contingent Roles
File this among the long and growing list of unexpected workforce consequences of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic: a predicted wave of layoffs for white collar, $100,000/year employees. Where is this prediction coming from? Is it plausible? What does it suggest about the future of workforce management? First the background. Yahoo Finance correspondent Julia LaRoche spoke…
Read MoreWhat is the Contingent Workforce Management Program Maturity Assessment?
It can be difficult to gain a truly objective overview of the strengths and weaknesses of your contingent workforce management operation. Especially when you’re busy addressing the day to day functions needed to keep the program operable. Complicating matters is the fact that, for even the most seasoned professional, one simply does not know what…
Read More“Working Knowledge” Digest – Part Two for June
Did you know about the new “Working Knowledge” section on the nextSource website? This critically informative new section is home to articles replete with valuable information for practitioners of contingent workforce management. While the nextSource Blog generally deals with broader trends, strategies and schools of thought on hot topics impacting the industry, the Working Knowledge…
Read More“Working Knowledge” Digest – Part One for June
Did you know about the new “Working Knowledge” section on the nextSource website? This critically informative new section is home to articles replete with valuable information for practitioners of contingent workforce management. While the nextSource Blog generally deals with broader trends, strategies and schools of thought on hot topics impacting the industry, the Working Knowledge…
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