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Study identifies the entry-level jobs with the highest numbers of current openings

Chicago – February 18, 2021 – PeopleScout identifies the best entry-entry level positions for the millions of out-of-work Americans looking to change careers because of the coronavirus pandemic.

For those looking for a new career, PeopleScout has analyzed millions of full-time job postings to identify the jobs and industries that are hiring entry level workers now. All roles on this list require 0-2 years of experience, though some require specific certifications or degrees. PeopleScout’s analysis also shows that demand for these roles is growing.

Drivers of heavy and tractor-trailer trucks make up the largest number of current job openings, followed closely by a large number of roles in the medical field. Customer service, technology, banking and accounting, and human resources positions also were among the top jobs available.

“At PeopleScout, we know workers, particularly from the leisure and hospitality sector, have been hit hard by the pandemic,” said PeopleScout President Brannon Lacey. “Recent surveys have shown that more than half of unemployed workers are looking to change careers. This study identifies the types of entry-level positions with the most open jobs today. We know that some workers are looking to bring their existing skillsets into new roles immediately, while others are looking to obtain additional education or certifications. Our analysis shows there are opportunities for both types of workers.”

This PeopleScout study examined more than 3.8 million full-time, entry-level jobs posted since November 2020. This study is intended to help workers who are looking to shift careers identify the best opportunities.

The full list of jobs includes:

1. Drivers (Includes drivers of heavy and tractor-trailer trucks, light trucks and passenger vehicles)
2. Medical workers (Includes nurses, respiratory therapists, medical and health services managers, medical assistants, lab technicians, home healthcare aids, physical therapists and pharmacy techs)
3. Maintenance and repair workers
4. Customer service representatives
5. Technology workers (Includes software developers, computer user support specialists, network and computer systems administrators, computer systems analysts and information security analysts)
6. Stockers and order fillers
7. Sales representatives and managers
8. Secretaries and administrative assistants
9. Banking and accounting positions (Includes accountants and auditors, bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks, financial managers, loan officers and financial investment analysts)
10. Human resources specialists

For those looking to change careers, PeopleScout recommends refreshing your resume and LinkedIn profile to highlight skills and experience that translate to your desired new career.

Unemployed workers can also find job training in their areas through the American Job Center Network. Workers who were laid off may be eligible for training services through the Dislocated Worker program through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Those who qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food benefits may also qualify for SNAP Employment & Training programs.

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company, is the world’s largest RPO provider managing talent solutions that span the global economy, with end-to-end MSP and talent advisory capabilities supporting total workforce needs. PeopleScout boasts 97% client retention managing the most complex programs in the industry. The company’s thousands of forward-looking talent professionals provide clients with the edge in the people business by consistently delivering now while anticipating what’s next. Affinix™, PeopleScout’s proprietary talent acquisition platform, empowers faster engagement with the best talent through an AI-driven, consumer-like candidate experience with one-point ATS and VMS integration and single sign-on. Leveraging the power of data gleaned from engaging millions of candidates and contingent associates every year, PeopleScout enhances talent intelligence for clients across more than 70 countries with headquarters in Chicago, Sydney and London and global delivery centers in Toronto, Montreal, Charlotte, Bristol, Krakow, Gurgaon and Bangalore. For more information, please visit www.peoplescout.com.

Press Contact:
Sarah Katz Candelario
Director of Marketing & Communications
skatz@peoplescout.com
312-915-5544

PeopleScout NEXT Magazine and Talking Talent Podcast Recognized by NYX Awards and Vega Digital Awards

CHICAGO – January 12, 2021 – PeopleScout’s NEXT magazine and Talking Talent podcast have received multiple awards recognizing outstanding thought leadership.

PeopleScout has been named a Gold winner in the Audio & Podcasts category for its Talking Talent podcast and in the Publications, Magazine category for PeopleScout NEXT magazine in the 2020 NYX MarCom Awards. The NYX MarCom Awards received over 1,600 entries from 33 countries.

In addition, PeopleScout’s Talking Talent podcast was named a Centauri winner in the Audio (Campaign), Podcast Series category and PeopleScout NEXT magazine was named an Arcturus winner in the Owned Media, eMagazine category in the 2020 Vega Digital Awards. The Vega Digital Awards received over 1,400 entries from 32 countries.

“It always brings me joy to see talented individuals gain recognition for their work,” said Kenjo Ong, CEO of NYX Awards and Vega Digital Awards. “To have creativity thrive and grow despite adversity, and having PeopleScout exemplify that, is certainly awe-inspiring.”

These global wins follow three top honors in the 2020 MUSE Creative Awards: Gold in the Audio, Podcast category for Talking Talent, Gold in the Publication, Magazine category for PeopleScout NEXT magazine and Silver in the Corporate Identity category for the PeopleScout brand identity. Additionally, PeopleScout won Gold in the 2020 AVA Digital Awards in the audio production/radio category for Talking Talent.

PeopleScout was also recently named a Leader—the highest rating—in every category in NelsonHall’s global 2020 NEAT Vendor Evaluation for RPO and a Leader in Everest Group’s Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020. The company was also named a global leader in HRO Today’s Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings for RPO, Managed Service Provider and Total Workforce Solutions.

View the full list of 2020 NYX MarCom Award winners here and the full list of Vega Digital Award winners here.

About Talking Talent
Talking Talent with PeopleScout is an audio series that digs into issues related to talent acquisition and workforce management. The podcast leverages perspectives from thought leaders across the globe who share insights drawn from years of experience in the industry. The series covers everything from the unique challenges sourcing, recruiting and retaining talent in the healthcare industry to how employers and organizations around the globe grapple with skills shortages and changing candidate expectations. Talking Talent also discusses the role technology plays—both disrupting traditional talent acquisition models and solving new challenges. Listen to Talking Talent on Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

About PeopleScout NEXT
NEXT is PeopleScout’s publication covering an expansive array of talent acquisition and workforce management topics and technology trends, designed to provide readers with the knowledge they need to go from advice to advantage. PeopleScout’s audience is focused on what’s next—the future of work, impending skills shortages and technological advances. The goal of PeopleScout NEXT is to provide talent leaders with both the big ideas and small steps they can take today to make sure they are set up for future success.

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company, is the world’s largest RPO provider managing talent solutions that span the global economy, with end-to-end MSP and talent advisory capabilities supporting total workforce needs. PeopleScout boasts 97% client retention managing the most complex programs in the industry. The company’s thousands of forward-looking talent professionals provide clients with the edge in the people business by consistently delivering now while anticipating what’s next. Affinix™, PeopleScout’s proprietary talent acquisition platform, empowers faster engagement with the best talent through an AI-driven, consumer-like candidate experience with one-point ATS and VMS integration and single sign-on. Leveraging the power of data gleaned from engaging millions of candidates and contingent associates every year, PeopleScout enhances talent intelligence for clients across more than 70 countries with headquarters in Chicago, Sydney and London and global delivery centers in Toronto, Montreal, Charlotte, Bristol, Krakow, Gurgaon and Bangalore. For more information, please visit www.peoplescout.com.

Press Contact:
Sarah Katz Candelario
Director of Marketing & Communications
skatz@peoplescout.com
+1 312-915-5544

TACOMA, WA – December 15, 2020 – TrueBlue is pleased to announce that four of its leaders have been named to the HRO Today 2020 HR Superstars list. Each year, HRO Today releases its list of HR Superstars, which recognizes those who are leading the way in HR transformation and innovation at their organizations.

“2020 brought a series of unprecedented obstacles to the business world, completely transforming the way work is done. HR leaders were there on the front lines, ready to rethink their strategies, adopt new technologies, and remain agile and flexible to meet the new needs of the business and the workforce,” said HRO Today editorial staff. “In this moment of immense disruption, we think it’s important to recognize HR leaders that have gone above and beyond to support their teams and the health and well-being of their employees.”

The TrueBlue executives featured this year include:

Patrick Beharelle
Chief Executive Officer, TrueBlue
As CEO of one of the largest specialized workforce solutions providers, Beharelle leads TrueBlue’s mission to connect people and work. As a global force for good, in 2019 the company connected approximately 724,000 jobseekers with meaningful work. Known for challenging the status quo, Beharelle is driving a digital transformation at TrueBlue and within the staffing industry as a whole through the development of breakthrough technologies. Beharelle has spent more than two decades in staffing, recruitment process outsourcing, and consulting. He joined TrueBlue in 2014 following the acquisition of PeopleScout and Staff Management, where he served as CEO from 2009 to 2014 and delivered a solid track record of organic growth. Beharelle was inducted into Staffing Industry Analysts’ Hall of Fame in 2018.

Taryn Owen
President, PeopleReady
Owen serves as president of PeopleReady, the industrial staffing powerhouse that puts nearly 300,000 people to work each year. Owen is spearheading PeopleReady’s digital transformation, most notably through its cutting-edge JobStack platform, which connects employers with job seekers 24/7—winner of the 2020 top Mobile Site and App Award winner at the American Business Awards. Widely recognized for her industry leadership and passion for empowering others, Owen won the 2019 Multiplier of the Year award for the U.S. SMB category and has received a Gold Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year and a Gold American Business Award for Executive of the Year.

Brannon Lacey
President, PeopleScout 
Lacey serves as president of PeopleScout, the world’s largest RPO and an award-winning provider of MSP, total workforce and talent advisory solutions. As a strategic partner to organizations across the globe, PeopleScout provides the people, process and technology that employers need to succeed in today’s talent landscape. As PeopleScout President, Lacey is focused on finding innovative ways for companies to connect with talent and driving the company’s ongoing digital transformation and global expansion. Lacey is a technology-centric leader with significant expertise in product management as well as broad experience in human capital solutions and global leadership.

Carl Schweihs
President, PeopleManagement
Schweihs is president of PeopleManagement, TrueBlue’s workforce management division, which specializes in on-site and contingent workforces. Across three staffing businesses—Centerline, SIMOS, and Staff Management | SMX—Schweihs combines innovative, technology-based solutions with workforce strategy to help bridge talent gaps and prepare tomorrow’s supply chain talent for the future. From manufacturing and fulfillment to distribution and transportation, PeopleManagement connects Fortune 1000 supply chain companies with hundreds of thousands of workers, helping companies meet workers where they are and how they want to work, whether they are looking for part-time, temporary or full-time work.

About TrueBlue
TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions that help clients achieve business growth and improve productivity. In 2019, TrueBlue connected approximately 724,000 people and work. Its PeopleReady segment offers on-demand, industrial staffing, PeopleManagement offers contingent, on-site industrial staffing and commercial driver services, and PeopleScout offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and managed service provider (MSP) solutions to a wide variety of industries. Learn more at www.trueblue.com.

Media Contact          
David Irwin
TrueBlue Communications Director
dirwin@trueblue.com
630-453-1120            

Fast Company featured PeopleScout President Brannon Lacey in the recent article, “Six Skills Employees Will Need in the Post-Pandemic Workplace.” The article digs into the skills that will help employees thrive in the future.

“You have to be better with your words, you have to use brevity and levity to be successful getting thoughts and concepts across in an effective and efficient way,” Lacey said about the importance of communication management for the future.

Lacey also mentioned the importance of knowing the best platform for your message, whether its audio, video or another digital communication tool so that you keep your audience engaged but stave off Zoom fatigue.

Lacey also weighed in on the necessity of empathy, saying, “That’s helpful for everybody, not just the people who are trying to make their way through the chaos.”

Finally, Lacey spoke about adaptability. With so many employers operating in new and different ways, employees need to keep functioning through discomfort and take on stretch roles and projects. That can also mean finding new ways to collaborate and work through obstacles.

“You still need to be able to germinate that spark of innovation and produce results and be productive for the organization,” he said.

The article also lists the skills of self-direction, digital capabilities and motivational skills as being essential to succeed in the future.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

“The pandemic has created enormous changes in the workplace. Regardless of their jobs, employees needed to adapt rapidly to massive changes ranging from working remotely to changes in operations and fulfillment. But job skills were changing even before the pandemic.

Gartner data found that the number of skills required for a single job was increasing by 10% per year. And one-third of the skills listed in an average 2017 job posting would not be relevant by 2021. Gartner also found that role-based skills planning wasn’t helping organizations develop the right employee skill sets. Grouping unrelated skills doesn’t build the skills that will create competitive advantage.”

You can read more of “Six Skills Employees Will Need in the Post-Pandemic Workplace” on the Fast Company website.

PeopleScout NEXT celebrates its two-year anniversary of publication with a Gold MUSE Creative Award Win

Chicago – October 30, 2020 – PeopleScout today released the digital exclusive Q3/Q4 2020 issue of its award-winning PeopleScout NEXT magazine. Available at peoplescout.com/next, the magazine provides actionable insights on the rapidly changing talent acquisition, talent technology and workforce management landscape.

“Organizations today face an unpredictable future, but there are a few things that remain certain: the importance of finding the right talent to meet your business needs and ensuring that you have the right tools and technology to connect with the best talent efficiently and safely,” said PeopleScout President Brannon Lacey. “This issue of NEXT dives into those important topics and continues to focus on the concepts we introduced earlier this year as a response to COVID-19.”

In this issue of PeopleScout NEXT, talent professionals will find insights on:

• Building impactful employee resource groups and exploring the meaning and importance of inclusion in the workplace
• Workforce flexibility and remote work and what they mean for the future of talent acquisition
• Why the time for talent pipelining is now
• How MSP and contingent labor programs can help maintain business continuity
• How the pandemic has affected your employer brand
• The benefits of RPO in our new normal, and more!

PeopleScout NEXT began publication with the Q3/Q4 2018 issue and has since gone on to receive numerous awards for its writing and design. In October 2020, PeopleScout NEXT magazine was named a Gold winner in the Publication, Magazine category in the 2020 MUSE Creative Awards competition. This win follows two 2019 MarCom Awards: Platinum in the Print Media — Writing category and Gold in Print Media — Design for PeopleScout NEXT.

Access the Q3/Q4 issue of PeopleScout NEXT today at www.peoplescout.com/next.

About PeopleScout NEXT
NEXT is PeopleScout’s publication covering an expansive array of talent acquisition and workforce management topics and technology trends, designed to provide readers with the knowledge they need to go from advice to advantage. PeopleScout’s audience is focused on what’s next – the future of work, impending skills shortages and technological advances. The goal of PeopleScout NEXT is to provide talent leaders with both the big ideas and small steps they can take today to make sure they are set up for future success. You can access the latest edition of PeopleScout NEXT here.

About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue company, is the world’s largest RPO provider managing talent solutions that span the global economy, with end-to-end MSP and talent advisory capabilities supporting total workforce needs. PeopleScout boasts 97% client retention managing the most complex programs in the industry. The company’s thousands of forward-looking talent professionals provide clients with the edge in the people business by consistently delivering now while anticipating what’s next. Affinix™, PeopleScout’s proprietary talent acquisition platform, empowers faster engagement with the best talent through an AI-driven, consumer-like candidate experience with one-point ATS and VMS integration and single sign-on. Leveraging the power of data gleaned from engaging millions of candidates and contingent associates every year, PeopleScout enhances talent intelligence for clients across more than 70 countries with headquarters in Chicago, Sydney and London and global delivery centers in Toronto, Montreal, Charlotte, Bristol, Krakow, Gurgaon and Bangalore. For more information, please visit www.peoplescout.com.

Press Contact:
Sarah Katz Candelario
Director of Marketing & Communications
skatz@peoplescout.com
312-915-5544