August 2020 – Talent Solutions

The Future for Workers, By Workers: Making the Next Normal Better for All

A dramatic workforce transformation is happening in front of our eyes. COVID-19 began as a health crisis and is playing out as an economic crisis and a social crisis. Work literally left the building and whole industries are disrupting at speeds never seen before.

Shifting focus – why a recession is the right time to transform your HR technology

Covid-19 has caused many organisations to hit the emergency reset button, and in no department more so than Human Resources. Changes to working practices that would ordinarily have taken years or even decades to establish themselves, have been put in place in a matter of weeks, with HR taking a leading role in the design and implementation. This has increased the importance of HR’s input across the organisation, with many managers and individuals turning to HR for guidance on building a new normal for their teams.

Finding Talent in Dispersed Markets

Within just a matter of months, the COVID-19 outbreak has fostered a shift away from the candidate-led markets we’ve become accustomed to, and back to one where employers can exercise more control in the hiring process. At the same time, candidates’ job preferences are changing as the news agenda tightens its gaze on the economic fallout. Employees are also switching between roles less and are more accepting of their current position, not wanting to rock the boat.

How to support your in-house recruitment team in a changing talent market

In the UK today, in-house recruitment teams are grappling with a multitude of different issues. Some will still be on furlough as a result of recruitment freezes across their organisation. Others may just be coming up for air after an unprecedented surge in recruitment requirements. And many will be managing with fewer heads in the team than they really need – particularly as we see more redundancies taking place across sectors.

How Covid-19 is impacting the UK gender pay gap

Covid-19 has not only had devastating health consequences; since March 2020 we have seen that the economic repercussions of the pandemic are also placing unprecedented pressure on the world of work.

5 questions to ask before implementing an outplacement programme

Whilst restructuring and redundancies are a reality for many organisations during uncertain times, providing a comprehensive outplacement support programme to exiting employees isn’t just the right thing to do – it makes business sense. Here are five questions to ask yourself before you get started.

Shatter the myth: RPO means end-to-end outsourcing

One of the most common misconceptions our clients have around Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is that it is an all or nothing service, only available to the world’s largest companies. They think that RPO must encompass the full end-to-end components of the recruitment process, including attraction, screening, assessment, interview scheduling, onboarding, exit interviews, and the technology that underpins all of this.

Using organisational purpose to drive effective transformation

Originally presented as part of the ‘Humans Wanted: Transforming the Future of Work’ ManpowerGroup conference, we are pleased to share Jessica Huie’s discussion on individual and organisational purpose, on-demand.