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Pontoon’s Evolutionary Services Procurement Approach for Contingent Hiring Success
Sep 14, 2022, by Nikki EdwardsPontoon's recently reimagined Services Procurement contingent hiring solution enables a simplified, client-centric journey, with best practice at its core and underpinned by industry-leading technology. In 2021, Pontoon conducted a thorough evaluation of its existing offering, other solutions in the market, and what current and future clients were looking for from Services Procurement.&[...]
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AGS Takes QUANTUM Leap in the Workforce Acquisition Framework Space
Oct 16, 2018, by Nikki EdwardsEarlier this month, Allegis Global Solutions (AGS) launched the QUANTUM Platform™ to the U.S. market. QUANTUM is a workforce acquisition (WA) framework comprising a total talent strategy, a sourcing methodology, and a technology platform all in one. 18 months in the making, the idea was initiated about a decade ago, as discussions began around the roadblocks associated wi[...]
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Cielo: Latest Developments & RPO Growth in Latin America
Oct 04, 2018, by Gary BragarLast week, I attended Cielo’s annual analyst event, held at its service center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Here I round up the latest high-level developments at the RPO vendor, then take a closer look at its Latin American business. Latest developments & 2020 roadmap Cielo performs ~157k hires for ~154 clients in ~92 countries in 36 languages. Clients are served by ~2[...]
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PeopleScout Continues Global Expansion with Acquisition of TMP Holdings
Jun 21, 2018, by Gary BragarAt its recent Talent Summit, PeopleScout announced the expansion of its service centers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia Pacific, plus the acquisition of TMP Holdings, a provider of employer branding and RPO services operating in the U.K. via Yocto, the RPO division of TMP Worldwide. Already the largest RPO provider in terms of number of hires (~300k annually) and the largest[...]
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The Gig Economy & the Challenge for HR
Sep 22, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystThe gig economy has been a recent trending topic. While the concept of gig workers is nothing new, the attention being paid to it is, especially since this is an area whose growth has been facilitated by the digital marketplace. Here, I take a quick look at the challenges gig workers present for HR. Gig workers present a challenge on several fronts, especially when it comes to managing[...]
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Is the U.K. Gig Economy Over Hyped?
Aug 30, 2017, by Nikki EdwardsThere has been much hype about the growth of the gig economy in the U.K., but when you take a closer look, is it really anything new? And how is it likely to grow and change over the next few years? According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), March 2017, gig workers are defined as those workers who ‘trade their time and skills through the intern[...]
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Compliance & VMS Technology: Clients Identify Areas Where MSP Vendors Need to Improve
Jul 28, 2017, by Gary BragarNelsonHall recently published its 2017 Managed Services Programs (MSP) market analysis and NEAT vendor assessment, as part of which we interviewed the clients of leading MSP vendors to ascertain satisfaction levels across a range of MSP service criteria. And while we found that MSP is largely meeting or exceeding client expectations, there are a few areas that fall short of expectations and should[...]
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How PeopleScout is Addressing the Changing World of Work
Apr 26, 2017, by Gary BragarPeopleScout held its annual Client Forum last week, with discussion groups covering employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, employer branding, the talent landscape, total workforce solutions, the impact of industry disruption on best practices, and improving the employee experience. All these HR themes are important, but here I look specifically at what PeopleScout is doing [...]
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HRO: Three Key Trends Driving Talent Acquisition Markets
Jan 27, 2017, by Nikki EdwardsBy Nikki Edwards & Gary Bragar In recent industry discussions around talent acquisition, we have identified a number of interconnected trends that are having a significant impact on talent acquisition markets. Here, we take a look at three key trends, and at how HRO vendors in the talent acquisition space are responding. Socio-economic trends An ageing, yet multi-genera[...]
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Allegis Global Solutions Launches Fast-Deployment MSP Offering for the Mid-Market
Sep 07, 2016, by Gary BragarMid-market adoption of Managed Service Provider (MSP) programs is seeing high growth driven by the increasing need to manage costs, along with greater uptake of the direct hire MSP model (which is more common in mid-market organizations where there is a limited need to use specialist agencies). Here I take a brief look at the launch of a new mid-market MSP offering from Allegis Globa[...]
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KellyOCG: Talent Advisory & Analytics Key to MSP & RPO Growth
May 23, 2016, by Gary BragarKellyOCG 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[...]
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KellyOCG Invests in the ‘Supply Chain’ of Talent Management
Jul 27, 2015, by Gary BragarThe 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[...]
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