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  • The Changing Talent Landscape

    – COVID-19 is driving TA leaders to rethink recruitment strategies.

    By Marta Chmielowicz

    Just last year, talent shortages and unprecedented competition in the labor market were hot topics in the recruitment space. At the time, there were more than 7 million open requisitions across the U.S. and the national unemployment rate hovered at a low 3.5 percent. But the coronavirus pandemic flipped the job market upside down, driving widespread furloughs, hiring pauses, business closures, economic uncertainty, and an unemployment rate of 11 percent. Faced with this new reality, hiring teams across industries are working to ramp up business operations once more while adapting to an ever-evolving set of challenges.

  • 2020 Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings: RPO

    – We rank the top RPO providers based on customer satisfaction surveys.

    By The Editors

    In today’s increasingly diverse, multigenerational talent marketplace, organizations have to innovate in order to stay ahead of their hiring needs. From adopting AI-enabled technology to leveraging data and analytics, modern recruiting is full of challenges—but an RPO can help. View our ranking of the top RPO service providers and find the right partner for your organization.

  • Agile, Adaptable, and Innovative

    – As workplace demands continue to evolve due to COVID-19, HR leaders share best practices for growing employee skills.

    By Marta Chmielowicz

    There is no arguing that 2020 has been a challenging year for business. From switching to remote work seemingly overnight to making ends meet in an economic downturn, organizations have had to be agile, adaptable, and innovative to stay afloat. And employees are feeling the impact: Workers across industries are being asked to adjust to rapidly changing conditions in an uncertain climate, often facing furloughs, shifting job requirements, and entirely new modes of work.

  • A Healthy Dose of Innovation

    – Ways healthcare organizations are pivoting their recruitment and hiring approaches to overcome the global pandemic’s challenges.

    By Debbie Bolla

    With the Bureau of Labor Statistics already projecting the healthcare market to grow by 8.4 million jobs by 2028, COVID-19 has caused an even more pressing need for the right talent at the right time. Shannon Levesque, vice president of talent acquisition and workforce planning for Boston Children’s Hospital, is no stranger to this pressure. She says that during the pandemic, keeping employees engaged with opportunities for full employment has been a main priority.

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HRO Today Global Current Issue

  • Building Unity

    – As the complexities facing businesses due to COVID-19 continue to accumulate, HR leaders are finding ways to adapt.

    By Simon Kent

    The initial shock to the system may be over, but the coronavirus pandemic continues to dictate the actions of HR and businesses in general. As more operational choices open for businesses, HR is beginning to see which trends will move on and which are here to stay.

  • The Employee Engagement Engine

    – From learning programmes to employee recognition, organisations are implementing a host of new strategies to keep their employees engaged.

    By Simon Kent

    HR is often seen as the backbone of an organisation and employee engagement is one area where this is particularly true. The recent pandemic has not only shown how critical HR is to a united and productive workforce, it has also brought new challenges for HR to deliver on.

  • Driving Innovation

    – Whilst companies may have slowed down their hiring plans, new talent management strategies are going full speed ahead.

    By Simon Kent

    Adversity is said to reveal character. In recent months, this has been illustrated by how companies have regarded the importance of talent management to their business. According to Jo Taylor, founder of HR consultancy firm Let’s Talk Talent, there have been two general responses.

  • 2020 Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings: RPO in EMEA and APAC

    – We rank the top providers of recruitment process outsourcing in EMEA and APAC based on customer satisfaction surveys.

    By The Editors

    Seeking an RPO provider that can manage your recruitment process across the globe? Look no further—this HRO Today Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Rating shines a light on the top-rated RPO companies operating across EMEA and APAC.

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HRO Today Research & Best Practices

  • Global Labor Market Report – Q2 2020

    – The second quarter of 2020 saw business sharply decline amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with global employment numbers also hitting their lowest levels since the financial crisis of 2008. Interestingly, as HRO Today‘s latest research findings illustrate, each region of the globe fared differently in response to the virus – and it is reflected in their […]

  • Benefits Strategies that Don’t Just Survive but Thrive in Evolving Conditions

    – By Mike Glantz, Executive Vice President at bswift

    The employee experience is being permanently reshaped by the pandemic. Employee benefits and enrollment engagement was already a challenge prior to the pandemic, with Aflac reporting that 93 percent of employees just enroll in the same benefits each year and more than half spend less than 30 minutes researching their options. Now, with limitations like remote work and shifting priorities, this challenge will likely become more confounding

  • HR New Technology Report – Second Quarter 2020

    – As COVID-19 raged on during the second quarter of 2020, business operations worldwide came to a screeching halt. But despite the recent economic downturn resulting from the ongoing global pandemic, HR technology saw an impressive 99 major announcements in the second quarter – a positive amongst current unprecedented times. The Human Resources New Technology Report […]

  • The Importance of Recruiter Training: How to Hire the Best Talent for Your Organization

    – Today, recruiters are more than just recruiters. They not only find and hire key talent but also shape the candidate experience and promote their company’s brand. But how well they do their jobs depends largely on their training, and a lack of effective recruiter training will make hard-to-fill and volume hiring impossible. Providing recruiters with […]

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HRO Today Livestreams

  • Livestream: Navigating Legalized Marijuana

    – Livestream Date & Time: 5/20/2020 12:00PM EST One of the most confusing social and HR issues of our time, the medical and recreational use of marijuana, has companies struggling to adopt policies that abide by federal, state, and municipal laws that are often contradictory. Brandon Phillips, CEO of Global HR Research, one of the leading […]

  • TLC Livestream: Hiring and Retaining Workers through Generations

    – In Broadleaf’s “Hiring and Retaining Workers through the Generations” presentation, Carl addresses concerns employers have about Millennials and Gen Z’ers entering the workforce. Many look at these emerging generations as wildly different, but we all have very similar underlying motivations. In this attention economy, it’s increasingly hard to attract and retain talent, but these universal […]

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HRO Today White Papers

  • How GDPR is Changing the Way Organizations Reward and Recognize Employees

    – Is sending out a “Happy Birthday” message a privacy violation in the workplace because of new data privacy laws? Read more to find out… When we think of data privacy, we are often concerned with our personal information being sold to third-parties or being used in a less-than scrupulous way that could have a negative […]

  • Global HR Research: Cannabis Legalization Whitepaper

    – While marijuana is illegal under federal law, many states have followed cultural shifts and recent legislation by legalizing it for medicinal use, recreational use, or both. This has left employer drug tests harder to administer than before in these states. Yet even in some states where it is legal, the law can compel certain types of […]

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