Category: Talent Acquisition Strategy

What is Talent Sourcing? Uncovering Hidden Gems in a Competitive Market 

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With top talent as elusive as ever, finding and attracting exceptional candidates has become increasingly challenging. Talent sourcing has emerged as a critical function in addressing an organization’s workforce needs, regardless of company size or industry. From start-ups to global enterprises, implementing effective talent sourcing strategies is essential for staying ahead in the race for top-tier professionals and ultimately driving organizational success. 

This article will guide you through talent sourcing, from understanding its importance to overcoming common challenges. We will explore how outsourcing can significantly improve your talent sourcing outcomes. 

What is Talent Sourcing? 

So, what is talent sourcing exactly? It involves the proactive identification and attraction of qualified candidates for specific roles within an organization through various channels such as job boards, social media platforms, professional networks and talent databases. By proactively engaging with potential candidates, talent sourcing helps build a strong pipeline.  

The key objectives of talent sourcing are: 

  • Identifying high-potential candidates who aren’t actively job hunting 
  • Creating a talent pipeline for future needs 
  • Improving the quality and diversity of your candidate pool 
  • Reducing time-to-hire and cost-per-hire 

In a talent market in which skilled professionals are in high demand, talent sourcing is a must in order to engage with qualified talent.  

Talent Sourcing vs Recruiting 

Now, before you start confusing talent sourcing with its cousin recruitment, let’s clarify the difference. Traditional recruitment often relies on posting job ads and waiting for applicants. In contrast, talent sourcing involves actively searching for candidates through various channels such as social media, professional networks and online platforms. Talent sourcing emphasizes relationship building and engagement rather than merely relying on job postings. 

Challenges in Talent Sourcing 

Talent sourcing can present various challenges for organizations looking to attract and hire top talent. You’re up against some formidable obstacles: 

  • Competition for top talent: One common obstacle in talent sourcing is the competition for qualified candidates. For example, tech and digital skills are in demand across all industries, not just high-tech firms. 
  • Skill shortages: It can be challenging to find candidates with the specific skills and experience required for the job, particularly if it’s a niche role or in a remote area. 
  • Managing diversity and inclusion: DE&I in talent sourcing is another important aspect to consider. Many organizations struggle to engage a diverse candidate pool and stay aligned with their recruitment goals.  
  • Maintaining compliance: Organizations must ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This includes adhering to equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws and maintaining data privacy and protection. 

By implementing the right strategies, organizations can overcome talent sourcing challenges and ensure they are attracting the best candidates for their roles. 

Benefits of Shifting Talent Sourcing to an RPO Partner 

Now, here’s where things get interesting. What if I told you there’s a secret weapon that can help you get ahead? Enter your Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) partner! No longer just for long-term recruitment engagement, RPO offers modular recruiting solutions that provide the agility and expertise to turbocharge your hiring process.  

Here are some of the benefits you can experience: 

  • Scalability: Need to hire 10 engineers this month and 100 next month? RPOs can flex up and down to meet your changing needs fast—and you don’t have to hire any more internal recruiters to make it happen. 
  • Talent pooling. Rather than relying solely on incoming applications, RPO provides connected talent sourcers who focus on proactive engagement with candidates through social media platforms, industry-specific job boards and professional networks. This helps you tap into a wider pool of candidates, including passive job seekers who may not be actively looking for new opportunities. Plus, we help our clients to build relationships with candidates over time, nurturing them until the right opportunity arises. You find the best fit for a position and free up your internal team to focus on creating a brilliant candidate and hiring manager experience.  
  • Rapid access to the latest technologies: RPOs are tech-savvy—always up to date with the latest tech. For example, our AI-powered sourcing tool in Affinix™ searches millions of candidate profiles for your requirements in minutes. At PeopleScout, we can also provide recruitment technologies like CRM, ATS, video interview tools, assessment platforms and analytics.  
  • Talent market insights: With the finger on the pulse of the talent market, RPOs can offer invaluable market feedback to benchmark your talent profiles and refine your talent strategy. 
  • Showcase your employer brand: Outsourcing your talent sourcing significantly contributes to your employer brand by highlighting your unique employee value proposition (EVP). An RPO partner can showcase the benefits and perks of working for your organization, such as career development opportunities, flexible work arrangements and company culture.  
  • Maximize diversity: By implementing inclusive hiring practices and leveraging diverse recruitment sources, an RPO partner actively seeks diverse talent. With experience across regions and industries, RPOs have access to an immense pool of professionals from varied backgrounds.  
  • Prioritize compliance: It is crucial to understand the legal framework surrounding talent sourcing to mitigate potential risks or legal issues. Partnering with a trusted talent partner can help ensure compliance and minimize legal risks in all the areas you’re hiring. 

Effective talent sourcing isn’t just about filling seats—it’s about discovering stars to light up your organization. Whether you’re doing it in-house or partnering with an RPO provider, investing in strong talent sourcing strategies will fuel your company’s future growth. 

PeopleScout Talent Sourcing provides the perfect way to boost your recruitment resources, engage with passive candidates and reach your hiring goals faster. Our sourcers act as an extension of your organization’s recruitment team—finding high quality talent, personally engaging them and converting them into applicants. Candidates get a great experience. You get a short or long list of pre-qualified, genuinely enthusiastic applicants ready for interview or assessment. 

Talent Sourcing Use Cases 

Wondering how you could benefit from outsourcing talent sourcing? Here are some real-world scenarios where we supported clients through our Talent Sourcing solution. 

The Niche Specialist 

Situation 

As a leader in higher education in the UK, a British university was seeking a niche role for their student casework team. Battling a tiny talent pool in their local area, they tried recruiting a Deputy Head of Student Casework on two occasions with no success. The client turned to PeopleScout to help them find the right hire with our Talent Sourcing solution. 

Solution 

Our strategy targeted individuals who had:  

  • Previous management experience  
  • Experience working within higher education including complex student casework  
  • Knowledge of academic and statutory framework guidelines  

With only three other universities nearby, we knew our talent pool would be limited in the immediate proximity for this office-based role. So, we extended our search across the entire UK to find candidates who would consider relocating. 

Results 

  • 71 candidates identified 
  • 46% engagement rate (well above the industry average of 18% to 25%) 
  • 8 candidates presented 
  • 1 relocation hire made from our short list 

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“We are very pleased indeed! Very interesting that all candidates said they weren’t actively looking for a new role, so clearly, we needed to work with PeopleScout.”

Client Feedback 

The Great Expansion 

Situation 

The London Borough of Hounslow, a local government agency, needed to source candidates that shared their values and vision as part of delivering their new Corporate Plan. This large-scale program initially incorporated 19 areas, with more to come in future iterations of the plan. They partnered with PeopleScout for a Talent Sourcing engagement that focused initially on six key job profiles, hiring between 35 and 40 individuals for the corporate Project Management Office (PMO) and the Service Design and Transformation teams. 

Solution 

Public sector recruitment is often challenging due to competition from other sectors. Because of this, we engaged passive candidates to raise Hounslow’s profile in the market and increase diversity within the talent pools. Our focus was on building brand awareness amongst candidates with backgrounds that matched these niche roles.  

We leveraged our Affinix talent acquisition suite to drive better decisions, to track and monitor the client’s DE&I agenda and to provide a mobile-first candidate experience. Throughout the project, we presented market feedback data and hiring metrics through bespoke dashboards. 

Results 

  • 87% offer acceptance rate 
  • 65% of candidates hired identified as non-white, boosting diversity outcomes 
  • 2:1 to interview-to-hire, exceeding the average of 3:1 
  • 39% engagement rate on LinkedIn 

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“PeopleScout were different to other providers I’ve worked with before. What really set them apart is the time they spent listening and understanding what the roles were and what type of people we wanted. The result is that we trusted PeopleScout’s shortlisted candidates, and we filled our roles quickly with talent that met our quality expectations.”

Mike Burch, Head of Service Design and Transformation Programmes, London Borough of Hounslow 

Talent Sourcing by PeopleScout 

In the grand talent show that is the job market, talent acquisition teams are not just judges—they’re talent scouts, coaches, and sometimes, even magicians, expected to pull perfect candidates out of thin air. Even the best talent acquisition teams need a little extra support to reach their goals! If you’re feeling overwhelmed, PeopleScout is standing by, ready to be your Talent Sourcing ally.  

Learn more about PeopleScout Talent Sourcing solution and our other Amplifiers offerings.  

Supporting Annual Graduate Recruitment for a Government Agency 

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Supporting Annual Graduate Recruitment for a Government Agency

Early Careers Recruitment

Supporting Annual Graduate Recruitment for a Government Agency

PeopleScout supports the assessment center for a UK government agency’s annual graduate recruitment campaign for policy advisors to ensure candidate quality and fairness.

3,500 + applications assessed
140 candidates supported in assessment centers
4 weeks of assessment centers completed

Situation 

This UK government agency runs an annual graduate recruitment campaign to hire quality early careers talent across their policy advisor team. They turned to PeopleScout to ensure this process remained consistent, fair and unbiased.  

Solution 

The PeopleScout talent assessment team supports the agency’s graduate recruitment program each year, continuously improving campaigns year-on-year.  

Prior to the assessment center, PeopleScout organizes assessors to sift written exercises. Successful candidates then complete a bespoke Situational Judgement Test, which we designed specifically to assess how candidates would respond in true-to-life scenarios that employees will encounter in their roles at the agency. This sifts out approximately 30% of applicants who would be unlikely to succeed at the assessment center. 

Candidate then complete the assessment center, for which we provide assessors. The assessment includes a variety of exercises like role plays, interviews and structured policy conversations. These are freshly designed by the client each year, and PeopleScout supports by reviewing the materials for consistency and best practice.  

Our experienced assessment team provides an end-of-campaign analysis, adverse impact analysis and recommendations for continual improvement. For example, off the back of these recommendations, we worked collaboratively with our client to host the assessment centres through part of our Affinix technology suite to create a smoother candidate and assessor experience in their virtual assessment centers.  

Results 

For this annual graduate recruitment campaign, PeopleScout assessed 3,697 applications, with 140 people completing the assessment center over 4 weeks. Ultimately, 53 candidates went on to work for the agency.  

At a Glance

  • COMPANY
    UK Government Agency
  • INDUSTRY
    Government & Public Sector
  • PEOPLESCOUT SOLUTIONS
    Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Talent Advisory, Affinix
  • ANNUAL HIRES
    50+ graduate policy advisors
  • ABOUT THE CLIENT
    This UK government agency employs over 3,000 civil servants.
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Creating a Values-Based Interview Framework for More Equitable Hiring

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Creating a Values-Based Interview Framework for More Equitable Hiring

Talent Consutling

Creating a Values-Based Interview Framework for More Equitable Hiring

This UK airport wanted to create a more standardised process for interviews based on their organisational values. As their long-time RPO partner, PeopleScout’s Assessment Design team created a values-based interview framework to support hiring for six levels of seniority from entry level to director.

Situation 

The airport’s talent acquisition leaders noticed that different teams across their organisation were conducting different types of interviews. They wanted to create a standardised process for interviews, which both measured potential and ensured fairness. They also wanted to embed their company values into their assessment process to secure talent who are in alignment with their organisational culture. 

This company turned to their RPO partner, PeopleScout, to transform their values into a multi-level interview framework.  

Solution 

Our Assessment Design team got to work conducting desk research into the client’s existing values and created a template which was populated throughout the project. Consulting with the client in an iterative way, the designers set clear definitions for the values and created a collection of questions for each value. The client’s team reviewed a variety of options for interview question styles and decided what worked for them.  

These questions also corresponded to six levels of seniority—from entry level to director—totalling 36 banks of question. The question banks were organised in such a way that interviewers at the organisation could easily pick and mix questions for their needs. We also delivered scoring criteria to ensure fairness for all candidates.  

Results 

In the recruitment process, the new values-based interview framework has standardised and streamlined the interview stage. Now, our client is building the questions into an internal tech platform to make the interview process even easier for hiring managers.  

Beyond recruiting, the new framework has applications across the entire organisation to help employees understand how the organisation’s values are manifested in their role. This has catalysed a cultural change within the organisation as employees at all levels are thinking more about how they embody this company’s values in their daily work.  

At a Glance

  • COMPANY
    UK Airport
  • INDUSTRY
    Travel & Tourism
  • PEOPLESCOUT SOLUTIONS
    Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Talent Advisory
  • ABOUT THE CLIENT
    This UK airport has nearly 75,000 employees, making it one of the country’s largest single-site employers.
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[On-Demand] Hype or Happening? What Our Data Tells Us About AI in Recruiting

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[On-Demand] Hype or Happening? What Our Data Tells Us About AI in Recruiting

 

We are bombarded with hype about the disruptive power of Generative AI, or Gen AI, on recruitment, including doom-laden, worst-case scenario predictions and claims that our existing talent assessment methods are already obsolete.

It is hard to make sense of all this to come to informed decisions about how we should respond to the new era of Gen AI. Much of what we see and hear is based on opinions, and the research reported focuses on the potential to disrupt rather than revealing the reality of what is actually happening right now.

At PeopleScout, we have responded to this confusion and lack of useful evidence by doing our own research. We wanted to look for evidence of real use cases and impact of Gen AI on job changers and live assessments—and what we found shines a different light on how candidates are using Gen AI in the real world.

In this webinar, we:

  • Debunk common myths and hype about Gen AI in recruiting.
  • Present real-world data and use cases of Gen AI’s impact on job seekers and assessments.
  • Offer actionable insights to help you navigate the evolving landscape of recruitment technology.

 

Revolutionizing Healthcare Staffing: The RPO Advantage

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Revolutionizing Healthcare Staffing: The RPO Advantage

Attracting and retaining top talent is a massive challenge in today’s competitive healthcare landscape. Unlike other sectors, a miscalculation in hiring the wrong candidates can have severe consequences for patients.

That’s where Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) comes in.

In this ebook, Revolutionizing Healthcare Staffing: The RPO Advantage, you’ll discover how RPO can revolutionize your healthcare organization’s talent acquisition strategy. We’ll explore:

  • The unique hiring challenges facing the healthcare industry and how RPO addresses them head-on
  • The benefits of partnering with an RPO provider, from cost savings to improved candidate quality
  • Real-world case studies showcasing RPO’s impact in healthcare settings

Join the growing number of forward-thinking healthcare talent acquisition and HR leaders who have partnered with RPO providers to stay ahead of the competition. Download our ebook today!

Recruitment Process Outsourcing

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PeopleScout Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

PeopleScout’s scalable recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions are backed by experience, insight and action to connect you with the talent you need.

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Skills-Based Hiring: Could It Be the Solution to Your Recruitment Challenges?

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Recruiting the right talent has always been a tough nut to crack for any company. And it’s becoming an even bigger challenge. Low unemployment rates, shifting workforce preferences and skills gaps make recruiting harder than ever. However, a proven solution has emerged that can expand access to talent and meet diversity goals while fueling business performance—skills-based hiring.  

The goal of skills-based hiring is to match candidates not based solely on degrees or past job titles, but rather on their current, demonstrated skills aligned with role requirements. It aims to judge applicants equitably on what they can do rather than what’s on their résumé or CV. This approach opens your talent pool to a wider range of qualified candidates who may have been overlooked using traditional hiring methods. 

Let’s explore what skills-based hiring entails, why more employers are embracing it and how you can get started. 

What is Skills-Based Hiring? 

As the name implies, skills-based hiring focuses on a candidate’s demonstrated skills and competencies rather than traditional qualifications like education, years of experience or work history. The emphasis is on relevant skills rather than “paper” credentials. For example, instead of requiring a college degree, a skills-based employer might list must-have abilities like sales, communication, analytical thinking, etc.  

The hiring process itself focuses on skills fit. Interviews and talent assessments gauge how a candidate’s skillset maps to a role’s requirements. In this way, skills-based hiring removes barriers for underrepresented groups and instead gauges whether someone can actually perform well according to the role’s core skills. The goal is to judge candidates objectively and find the best match for the job.  

Skills in the Workplace 

So, what skills should companies actually evaluate with skills-based hiring? Skills in the workplace are made up of three key components: 

  1. Hard Skills / Technical Skills: These are the expertise areas like programming languages (i.e., python, Java), data analysis, financial modeling, and other role-specific knowledge. While they’re crucial for many jobs, they actually make up a small fraction of the overall skills picture. 
  2. Soft Skills: Often undervalued, soft skills in the workplace, like problem-solving, emotional intelligence, communication and critical thinking are the grease that allows hard skills to operate smoothly. For most roles outside of niche specialties, these human skills make up the vast majority of what’s needed for success. 
  3. Values Alignment and Organizational Fit: Less about executing the day-to-day work, this is about whether someone’s personality, mindset and motivations mesh with the company culture and values. It’s about determining if the candidate embodies the attitudes and behaviors you want to see in the role and at your organization. 

Benefits of a Skills-First Approach: From Engagement to Productivity 

The potential benefits of skills-based hiring are plentiful. It can expand your talent pool, increase diversity by reducing bias toward pedigree over performance, improve internal mobility, and better align employees to roles they’ll thrive in.  

Organizations that embrace skills-based recruiting experience: 

Not only does skills-based hiring boost performance and quality of hire, but it also enhances your employer brand, accelerates ramp up and improves retention. 

3 Steps to Get Started with Skills-Based Hiring Today 

So, how can companies start becoming more skills-based in their hiring today? The reality is that nearly one in two HR leaders admit to a lack of understanding around skills-based best practices.  

The good news is that it doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing, enterprise-wide overhaul. Here are three steps to start putting skills-based hiring in focus: 

1. Understand the roles that you have. 

The first step in skills-based hiring is to break down the roles you’re looking to fill into the specific skills required for success. Start with one role or a set of roles. What hard skills (technical abilities) and soft skills (personal attributes) drive top performance in each position? Collaborate with your high performers to identify these key competencies and create detailed skills profiles for each role. These profiles should be action-oriented, specific, and avoid vague or subjective requirements. 

With skills profiles in hand, you can craft job descriptions that communicate the essential abilities candidates need upfront. This transparency not only attracts better-matched applicants but also sets clear expectations from the start. Consider removing degree requirements if they’re not absolutely necessary, as LinkedIn data shows that job ads listing skills tend to receive more applicants. 

2. Understand people.  

In a skills-based approach, you’ll evaluate candidates based on their personal skills profiles – their demonstrated hard and soft skills relevant to the role. Implement validated, data-driven assessments like coding tests, writing samples, or Excel modeling exercises to consistently measure these abilities during the hiring process. Grade candidate responses objectively against your predefined skill criteria on a scale. This data-driven approach helps minimize unconscious bias.  

3. Align roles with people.  

Structure your interviews to probe candidates’ proficiency in key skills through situational judgment questions and opportunities to demonstrate their competencies. Skills-based interviews, combined with detailed skills profiles for both roles and candidates, will help you make smarter, more informed talent decisions. Hire skilled individuals who match the role requirements, identify reskilling needs for existing employees, or reject candidates who don’t meet the necessary competencies.  

Skills-Based Hiring & RPO: Goodbye Credentials. Hello Skills. 

Skills-based hiring is still an emerging practice, but it offers companies an intriguing way to modernize talent acquisition. By focusing on what people can actually do instead of just their past experiences and credentials, you may uncover hidden gems and build higher-performing teams.  

While making the shift to skills-based hiring practices takes time and effort, partnering with a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider can accelerate your transition to building a future-fit workforce through this approach. An RPO partner offers the strategic guidance and operational expertise to embed skills at the core of your talent practices. They can help you carefully define and communicate role-specific skills and design fair and consistent talent assessments. 

With the support of an RPO partner like PeopleScout, you can embed fairness and future-readiness into your talent strategies, building a more skilled, capable workforce prepared to drive your organization’s success. 

PeopleScout Recruiter On-Demand™ for Healthcare

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PeopleScout Recruiter On-Demand™ for Healthcare

If your organization is struggling to recruit among the healthcare talent shortage or your internal recruiting resources are stretched thin, Recruiter On-Demand™ is a project-based recruitment solution that can drastically improve your
outcomes.

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PeopleScout Company Overview

Global talent solutions providing unmatched scalability to meet the professional, specialist, volume and contingent hiring needs of organizations of all sizes and sectors.

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Connect More™: How PeopleScout is Elevating Your Connection to Talent 

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In a world where the talent market is constantly evolving, PeopleScout knows that cultivating deeper, more meaningful connections is imperative. Now, as we unveil a refreshed identity, we build on the service we’ve delivered for over 30 years, delivering more insights, more imagination and more integrity.  

Connect More™ is our guiding principle. It reflects our unique approach that blends experience, insight and action to help employers build powerful connections with talent. 

We’re redefining what it means to a be talent acquisition partner.  

Too often we hear from clients about experiences they’ve had with other talent solutions providers in which one thing was said during the sales pitch only to have the stakes change once the ink was dry. Or times they’ve been forced into cookie-cutter processes that don’t support their unique needs. 

That’s why at PeopleScout we strive to do the opposite. We believe in keeping promises. We believe that listening creates a better experience and leads to better outcomes. We’re not perfect, but if we mess up, we make it right. 

We’re proud and humbled to say that this philosophy has led to some of the most enduring client relationships in the talent acquisition space—a testament to our commitment to creating connections that are truly meaningful. 

PeopleScout’s refreshed brand is grounded in differentiators that drive tangible value for our clients:  

Proven Delivery 

For over 30 years, PeopleScout has built our services on integrity, building trust through transparent communication and a proven track record of success.  

What That Means for You: 

You get a talent partner like no other to help you tackle your workforce challenges—large and small. Plus, as part of the TrueBlue family of brands, we are uniquely positioned to handle complex talent programs like no other firm in the world. 

Meaningful Connections 

PeopleScout has the demonstrated ability to connect with the most sought-after talent. From software engineers to neonatal nurses.  From Seattle to Singapore. 

What That Means for You: 

Our global delivery centers offer talent solutions across North America, EMEA and APAC, meaning we can grow with you as your needs change.  

Talent Advisory 

With one of the largest in-house talent advisory teams in the industry, we’ve got a wide range of experience with talent audiences across industries, skill sets, demographics and geographies. We are problem-solvers, creatives, organizational psychologists and operational experts.  

What That Means for You: 

Whether you need an award-winning candidate attraction campaign, a differentiated employer brand, market insights to fuel big decisions, a memorable candidate assessment experience or DE&I consulting—we have fresh ideas to help you stand out as an employer of choice. 

Data & Insights  

Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know. We’re dedicated to arming you with the sharable, digestible insights you need to tell the right stories in your business so you can stand out and get ahead.  

What That Means for You: 

You can capitalize on the latest market analysis, AI tools, thought leadership and competitive intelligence to supercharge your people strategy.  

Human Touch  

We bring a personal touch to our engagement with passive candidates that ignites excitement about your opportunities. From the second we grab the candidate’s attention to the minute they walk through the door—we deliver a seamless candidate experience that turns applicants into advocates. 

What That Means for You: 

Whether you need to fill executive, leadership or niche roles our global search teams deliver top-notch, future-ready talent. 

Digital Transformation  

As digital transformation reaches talent acquisition, we’re helping our clients get ahead. Affinix™, PeopleScout’s proprietary talent technology suite, provides candidates with a digital-first experience and leverages AI, automation and data analytics to remove friction and improve outcomes. Plus, we’re on top of the latest tech solutions, testing new ways that AI and machine learning can create results for our clients. 

What That Means for You: 

You get an upgraded tech-stack that delivers a consumer-like, mobile-first experience for candidates and a frictionless, informed journey for hiring managers. 

Ultimate Scalability  

We’ve scaled up to handle the full-cycle, global recruitment of tens of thousands of annual hires for one of the world’s largest hotel brands. We’ve scaled down to hire a few dozen specialist engineers for an automotive start up. And we’ve handled everything in between.  

What That Means for You: 

Whether you need specialty, professional, volume or contingent hiring solutions—our unique blend of insight, creativity and technology creates an employer brand-steeped candidate experience talent will never forget.  

Speed and Agility  

In this tumultuous era, talent acquisition teams are struggling to respond quickly to sudden fluctuations and hiring peaks. That’s why we’ve created flexible solutions like Accelerate™ and Amplifiers™. Purpose-built for modern talent programs, our solutions provide employers with the agility required to compete in today’s talent market, address immediate hiring needs and deliver results faster.   

What That Means for You: 

You get focused support for peak hiring, hard-to-fill positions, compressed time frames and more—however it works best for you—without the lengthy implementation.  

Value  

Organizations of all sizes trust PeopleScout’s efficient recruiting processes and quick-deploy solutions that improve time-to-hire and retention rates, delivering the best talent matches and maximizing ROI. 

What That Means for You: 

We measure our every move, idea and recommendation—so you know you’re spending your budget where it matters most. 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) 

DE&I is top of mind for talent leaders, including all of us at PeopleScout. While much progress has been made, there’s still work to be done. That’s why every PeopleScout solution has a DE&I component. PeopleScout integrates DE&I best practices into every solution, helping clients build a more diverse and inclusive workforce.   

What That Means for You: 

We’ll help you gain a better grasp of where you are, where you need improvement and how to find the right path forward. 

Are You Ready to Elevate Your Connection with Talent? 

PeopleScout’s deep expertise in recruitment, employer branding, talent attraction and recruitment technology makes us a recognized leader in talent acquisition. We connect clients around the world with the talent they need through Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Managed Service Provider (MSP), Total Workforce Solutions, and talent and technology advisory services.  

If you’re ready to elevate your connection with talent, let’s connect!