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Is It Better to Hire New or Choose Outsourced Staffing Solutions?
Outsourced staffing solutions increase convenience when acquiring talent. Here’s how staffing providers build your temporary workforce.
Read MoreThe ‘New Normal’ in Labor Trends is a Boon to Mothers in the US
Where would any of us be without our mothers? Moms have, for a long time, been dealt a tough hand in the employment game. Particularly in the US where maternity leave is a pitifully narrow window of time compared to the rest of the industrialized world. The advent of cloud computing and work from home/remote…
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 MoreMarket Dynamics Driving Talent Scarcity
We’ve entered a time when there are simply not enough workers to manage and grow our companies. At the same time, unprecedented levels of social, political and economic change are redrawing the boundaries and dynamics of the global workforce. The net result is currently manifested in growing scarcity of talent and those responsible for workforce…
Read MoreStaying Ahead of Turbulent Times in Workforce Management
The BLS reported a notable drop in unemployment rates in the US in July, down to 5.4%. The total number of unemployed now sits at 8.7 million, while the number of long-term unemployed (those searching for jobs for 27 weeks or more) fell to 3.4 million. Though elevated compared to accepted “full employment” figures, any hiring organization…
Read MoreHow to Curate an Enterprise Talent Pool
Part II – Important Considerations for Successfully Executing a Curated Talent Pool Strategy In Part I of this two-part series, we explored the definition of a curated talent pool for enterprise workforce management, the primary objectives of the strategy and how to embark on executing said strategy within your organization. In Part II we’ll examine some…
Read MoreHow to Curate an Enterprise Talent Pool
Part I – What is a Curated Talent Pool and How to Build One It takes a multi-pronged approach to sourcing talent in today’s sprawling and segmented workforce management environment. Relying on outside sources like staffing agencies alone is simply not enough. That’s why the most successful workforce management operations are developing their own enterprise…
Read MoreCreatively Leveraging Direct Sourcing to Offset Pandemic Uncertainty
The recent shift in workforce trends catalyzed by the pandemic has further strengthened the case for a flexible and robust external workforce to succeed during the difficult times. Trends already suggest an outsized role in contingent workforce utilization as a response to the new paradigm for work and workforce planning/composition. Post Covid-19 crisis, the dependency…
Read MoreRecruitment and Talent Acquisition – What is the Difference?
Think of it this way, all recruiting is talent acquisition, but not all talent acquisition is focused on recruiting. Talent acquisition describes the long-term process of planning the overall composition of the workforce and the best practices for delivering the goals set forth. Recruitment is the short-term process of filling a role with the right…
Read MoreWhat Is a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?
Ideal for mid-size and growing businesses, a managed service provider (MSP) offers a range of functions suited to addressing day-to-day business demands.
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