Jul 23, 2020, by Nikki Edwards
Everyone speculates as to what the long-term world of work could look like as we head into the second half of 2020 and beyond. But the reality is that we don’t really know how things will pan out. While organizations might be preparing for an uptick in hiring activity behind the scenes, the biggest challenges are the ongoing uncertainty around the future of work, and even survi[...]
Jul 03, 2019, by Gary Bragar
I recently attended Korn Ferry’s RPO Client Advisory Forum, which was all about talent management. The theme was ‘unplugged’ and featured frank discussions about the RPO industry, including the challenges faced by the clients and service providers who attended from every region.
Beyond RPO, Korn Ferry offers many complementary talent management services, includin[...]
Jun 15, 2018, by Gary Bragar
Last week, I attended and presented at Futurestep’s second annual client event, themed Talent Disruption: What’s Next? with clients attending from Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Below is a round-up of the event’s main talking points.
Key talent acquisition & retention challenges
The following summarizes some of the key challenges presented by Futu[...]
Jun 30, 2017, by NelsonHall Analyst
As H1 2017 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on recent key activity and where the market is headed for the rest of the year and beyond. Here, I round up what’s trending now in payroll, benefits administration, recruitment, and learning.
Payroll
The most common theme in the payroll market is global and multi-country activity. NelsonHall estimates tha[...]
Mar 17, 2017, by Gary Bragar
Robotic process automation and artificial intelligence (RPA & AI) in HR are at an early stage, though the clear signs are that vendors are beginning to make investments that are paying off for their clients. Here I take a look at recent RPA & AI initiatives in three areas of HR: payroll services, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), and learning services.
Payroll
RPA [...]
Oct 20, 2015, by Gary Bragar
When Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) became more widely adopted a decade or so ago, the primary focus was on the following functions:
Sourcing
Recruiting
Selection & Assessment
Administration
Onboarding.
During the last few years vendors have added additional capability focused on helping clients improve their talent management capability, including:
Talent strat[...]
Apr 13, 2015, by Gary Bragar
Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is about more than creating a nice-looking career page with exciting reasons why candidates should join a company. It is also about empowering recruiters to use their corporate brand flexibly for individual candidate situations. This is well known to recruitment processing outsourcing (RPO) companies.
However, an effective EVP can go even further. In a candidate[...]
Sep 17, 2014, by Gary Bragar
Hiring the best talent available, and being able to do this in a timely manner when they are needed, is a top priority of the HR function. For large enterprises, the optimal way to do this is to have candidates available in advance of the job requisition who are part of a talent pool that is already engaged and familiar with the hiring organization’s culture and values, and to make it easy t[...]
Feb 13, 2014, by Gary Bragar
NelsonHall, the leading global BPO and IT outsourcing analyst firm, has today launched a new tool to assist Strategic Sourcing Managers in assessing vendor capability in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO).
The RPO tool is available to NelsonHall clients here and is also available for a limited period free-of-charge to strategic sourcing managers.
The tool covers a number of RPO busin[...]