Oct 07, 2020, by Nikki Edwards
Quarterly financial reports for 2020 (April onwards) from recruitment organizations show that in a COVID-19 world, temporary hiring is more resilient than permanent hiring, faring on average about 10-30% better (albeit both types of hiring are seeing negative growth overall). Meanwhile, gig work has increased on average 10-15%, over the same period. These figures are not surprising a[...]
May 23, 2016, by Gary Bragar
KellyOCG held its second annual analyst event in Chicago last week. The event covered KellyOCG’s full suite of HR service offerings, but here I take a closer look at MSP and RPO and specifically at the advisory and analytics services that are driving growth in these areas.
KellyOCG is the outsourcing and consulting group of Kelly Services Inc., and represents the largest growth segment of[...]
Dec 21, 2015, by Gary Bragar
In NelsonHall’s 2015 RPO Market Analysis report, innovation was identified as a key vendor selection criterion. RPO clients are increasingly seeking vendors who will continually introduce new ideas and recommend new services, with continuous process improvement.
However, in our parallel RPO NEAT vendor evaluation study, when we interviewed clients of 15 leading RPO vendors, ‘innovat[...]
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[...]
Jul 27, 2015, by Gary Bragar
The theme of KellyOCG’s recent analyst day was ‘Talent Supply Chain Management’, which they demonstrated using their latest online analytics portal, ‘Talent Supply Chain Analytics’ (TSC Analytics).
The portal has the ability to propose the optimal number of suppliers for a job category, based on supply chain modelling that has identified correlations between the nu[...]
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[...]
Feb 05, 2015, by NelsonHall Analyst
By Amy Gurchensky, Liz Rennie and Gary Bragar
With total HRO service growth in the high single digits in 2014, service providers are growing both organically and inorganically to meet clients’ needs. The primary reasons for M&A and partnerships across HRO service lines were to enhance service delivery capability (60%) and support geographic expansion (40%). Here we take a closer look [...]
Jan 19, 2015, by Gary Bragar
By Amy Gurchensky, Liz Rennie, Gary Bragar
2014 was a busy year for HRO with ~60 partnerships, mergers and acquisitions combined. We now take a look at what to expect in 2015 and beyond for each HRO service line, including service offerings, market developments, and growth.
MPHRO driven by continued shift to cloud-based platforms
The Multi-Process HRO (MPHRO) market will grow with a mi[...]
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[...]
Jul 02, 2014, by Gary Bragar
NelsonHall’s annual HRO Market Forecast, 2014-2018, provides a forecast for the global HR BPO market by service line and geography. It includes:
The HR BPO market size for 2013 and the forecast through 2014 to 2018
The HR BPO market size and forecast for North America, specifically covering the U.S. and Canada; EMEA including U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Nordics &[...]
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[...]
Dec 17, 2013, by Gary Bragar
Per NelsonHall’s blog of December 12, 2013 was a healthy year for HRO, with overall contract activity up ~37%. We now take a look at what we can expect in 2014 by HRO service line.
MPHRO
We predict the Global MPHRO market will grow at mid-single digits CAAGR through 2017
The Shared Service Transformation segment will continue to grow mainly as a result of contract expansions and ren[...]