Randstad Enterprise Talent Navigator

In the face of unprecedented change, shifting employee expectations and the growing impact of AI, how can you unlock the best in your people?

This year’s Talent Trends research is our biggest study yet. With perspectives from 1,076 human capital leaders across 21 markets globally, the new research finds that many talent leaders feel unprepared. More than half (56%) believe digital transformation is moving too fast, and they cannot keep up. Meanwhile, 64% report that HR is expected to do more with less this year. And the top two challenges they expect to face moving forward are increased competition for hard-to-find skills and growing scarcity of specialty skills.

In this 60-minute podcast, you’ll gain key insights on how to put today’s top trends into practice to empower the people at the heart of your organization.

Watch the on-demand recording to learn: 

• the top 10 HR trends impacting the world of work and talent today

• how your peers around the globe are investing in technology and people to empower talent strategies

• how to embrace the beyond-skills revolution and build cultures and people experiences that keep your talent motivated

Meet the speakers: 

• Colleen Rush, global head of talent acquisition at Merck KGaA

• Chris Powers, director talent acquisition at Frontier Communications

• Mike Smith, chief executive of Randstad Enterprise

• Louisa Wilson, chief growth officer at Randstad Enterprise

This session on ‘building impact on human potential’ is the fourth episode of a 5-part Talent Navigator series to help you unlock the true potential of your workforce.

Listen to this discussion to delve into some real-world applications for data-driven talent intelligence and predictions in the new talent economy.

Global Head of Intelligence, Joost Heins, is joined by Mateusz Górecki to discuss how HR can leverage data and analytics to derive greater insights regarding both talent acquisition and talent management.

Using real-world examples and case studies, you’ll learn how data-driven HR intelligence can drive business growth and enhance talent strategies that are informed by insight and more accurate predictions of what it takes to win in the new talent economy.

How do you identify where the talent is that your organization needs, and how you can connect with it?

What indicators can alert you to the steps you need to take to build or acquire the skills you need in future?

And how can you use greater talent intelligence to more effectively manage talent and be ready to adapt to change?

Listen to hear guidance on how to build an agile workforce with mobility with speakers Jean-Francois Vezina and Martin Smith.

Internal mobility helps employees grow into new roles and helps talent leaders better meet recruitment needs. It’s a powerful solution that helps organizations tackle talent scarcity, increase retention and reduce recruitment costs. And at the same time, it elevates the employee experience and future-proofs careers. Everybody wins!Hear how you can support your employees as they navigate their internal journey.

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This session on generative AI kicks off a 5-part Talent Navigator series to help you unlock the true potential of your workforce. Register for future sessions to hear about human potential and skills based talent models, talent mobility, talent marketing and more: https://www.randstadsourceright.com/webinars-podcasts-events/

Listen to hear guidance on how to build an organization centered on skill with speakers Francesca Campalani, Joost Heins and Samantha Schlimper. 

In a revolutionary shift, transformation to a skills-based talent model is one of today’s most powerful trends. Companies are redefining how they hire, develop and nurture talent to tackle skill shortages in an AI-driven workplace. Leveraging technology to make smart decisions, they’re returning to what has predicted success since the ice age: the power of human potential. 

The growth of skills-based hiring and talent management, bolstered by data analytics and the latest AI, creates an explosion of opportunity.

When hiring for skills, companies are considering candidates without college degrees or industry experience. At the same time, they’re amping up internal skilling to prepare employees for new roles and changing demands. So, as people pursue new careers and future-proof skills, employers expand talent pools, build agility and increase retention for success in a complex market. Everybody wins.

Yet building a skills-based organization is easier than you might think. Human potential is powerful. People have everlasting agility to learn, along with innate core skills, motivations and aspirations that are even more powerful. As a result, you can enhance organizational performance by looking at people as individuals who are built to learn, rather than as the simple sum of education, past experience and job tasks. 

So how will you build an organization centered on skills? How will you capture skills and reduce duplication? What tech and data will inform your planning and decision-making? And what role will learned skills, innate core skills, motivations and aspirations play in your talent strategy?

Listen to this 60-minute Q&A to explore the 2023 Talent Trends research and hear from Zohra Yafai, global head of Talent Acquisition at Cisco; Janet Mertens, senior vice president of Research at The Josh Bersin Company; Mike Smith, chief executive of Randstad Enterprise; and Louisa Wilson, chief growth officer at Randstad Enterprise.

Across Asia Pacific, it is estimated that there are 650 million persons with disabilities (PwDs) of which their unemployment rate is disproportionate - usually double that of the general population and often as high as 80% or more.

Through this 60-minute discussion, hear how Get Skilled Access in Australia and PwC in India and Asia Pacific are helping to close the disability employment gap and embracing disability inclusion as a critical frontier of corporate social responsibility and workforce strategy.

While reductions in workforce are an unfortunate reality in business, how they are handled can have a listing impact on employees who are let go — and those who remain. For more on this topic, Hary Botka, Managing Director, Randstad Workforce Advisory Group, sits down with Lindsay Witcher, Senior Vice President, Sales and Customer Success, Randstad RiseSmart, to discuss how to implement workforce reductions in a transparent and respectful way.

In this Q&A podcast, you’ll learn:

• why proper planning and messaging are so important during times of reduction (2:02)
• how services like those from Randstad RiseSmart can help (4:39)
• the effects on remaining employees and the customer base when reductions aren’t handled well (7:08)
• how to make the workforce reductions as human as possible (12:58)

How can businesses overcome the challenges of a tight labor market and ongoing talent scarcity? By turning to an often-overlooked resource: internal talent. For more insight on this topic, Anthony Kim of Randstad Sourceright’s Workforce Advisory Group sits down with Martin Smith, Vice President, Global Solution Advisory to discuss how building a robust, people-focused internal mobility plan will help get top talent in key roles, while improving employee retention.

In this Q&A podcast, you’ll learn:

• how to identify employees ready for a move (5:00)
• common challenges employers face in their mobility programs and how to overcome them (7:33)
• examples of organizations doing internal mobility well (13:13)
• how to make the shift from role-based progression to skills-based progression (16:00)

In part 2 of our Global Diversity Awareness Month series, Courtnie Brazier Barrett (vice president of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility strategy at Randstad Sourceright), and Vaishali Shah (vice president of diversity and inclusion at Randstad Sourceright, supporting our MSP and contingent business) sat down once again to talk about driving DEI initiatives forward, but this time focusing on its importance during a possible recession. With economic uncertainty looming ahead, some employers may feel they can put their workforce diversity initiatives on hold, or that they won’t be as critical as they’ve been in recent history. Courtnie and Vaishali shared their insights on why this is not true and argued that if possible, DEI is more important than ever. They also gave very concrete examples and shared tactics on how companies can make sure that their diversity goals are met, regardless of the economic conditions.

Earlier in October, Attila Kerekes sat down to have a discussion with Courtnie Brazier Barrett, vice president of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility strategy at Randstad Sourceright, and Vaishali Shah, vice president of diversity and inclusion at Randstad Sourceright, supporting our MSP and contingent business. On the occasion of Global Diversity Awareness Month, they were sharing their insights on global DEI journeys and how to drive these initiatives forward at work.

Our latest Randstad Sourceright Talent Trends Research found that 83% of human capital leaders are engaging in contingent talent this year as a way to address talent scarcity. How can organizations be confident that they are receiving the best value when it comes to their SOW engagements?

Listen to this 60-minute talent navigator series featuring services procurement professionals to learn to build your business case, gain buy-in from and collaborate closely with stakeholders to reshape your contingent staffing infrastructure. In this Q&A, they share what drives an effective services-based landscape and how you can unlock a full scope of benefits for your organization.

You'll learn:

1. why services procurement requires a future of work and a business-first focus
2. how ROI — not cost savings — should be the leading benchmark
3. how to build your roadmap to optimize the potential of your MSP model

The past two years have made human capital leaders feel like they’ve been constantly fighting fires, forced them to not only sharpen but widen their skills quickly, and challenged them to scale, skill, and retain a workforce in the most volatile and talent scarce environments. 

Randstad Sourceright’s 2022 Talent Trends research, which surveyed more than 900 human capital leaders in 18 markets around the globe, says the same. This year, just 45% agree that talent acquisition is about value creation, rather than cost savings – a 5-year low and a 22-point drop from last year. At the same time, more than one-third (36%) are already seeing increased costs and a negative impact on their bottom line due to talent scarcity. Facing today’s norm of unpredictability, how can you respond to these challenges while creating the structure you need to prepare your organization for long-term stability and put people at the center of your business growth?

Listen to this 60-minute talent navigator series featuring Nathalie Lemyre, director of talent acquisition for Air Canada, Randstad Sourceright global CEO Mike Smith and Louisa Wilson, Randstad managing director of Enterprise Solutions, to learn:

• the top 10 HR trends impacting talent acquisition and retention today
• how your peers around the globe are facing structural talent shortages with market intelligence; internal mobility; skilling; flexible working; diversity, equity and inclusion; and more
• how to put people at the center of business growth and get back to long-term value creation, even in a volatile market

More than a year on from the crisis-induced “working from home experiment,” remote working has become essential in the future of work. In fact, 49% of workers say that they would look for another job if they are not offered flexible working options post-pandemic.

As more countries open up again, it’s time for you to build a long-term remote working strategy. How will you adapt the workplace for hybrid working? Should you make any changes to contracts and compensation packages if you offer permanent work-from-home options?

Listen to Russell Beck, director of inspiration at ImagineThinkDo, to learn how you can build a sustainable remote workforce.

Get tips for hiring and onboarding remote workers, and what you need to consider when it comes to contracts, benefits and expenses to equipment and communication. You will learn all about these insights and more starting with 

introductions followed by the topic of

pre vs. post-pandemic at 2:30

benefits of remote working at 4:30

will we go back to 'normal? at 7:30

embracing of remote work at 10:30

teams together: being on-site and remote at 15:45

remote working and its implications at 18:40

resetting expectations? at 25:30

integrating new team members in a flexible environment at 29:45

managing people remotely at 36:00

the silver bullet of the structure of flexible working at 42:15

additional useful gems at 43:40

finishing with questions at 47:10. 

77% of C-suite and human capital leaders say their talent strategy is now more focused on agility than ever before. And it’s no surprise why. As your organization looks to accelerate its recovery efforts in the months and years ahead, you’ll need an agile workforce to future-proof how work gets done. How can you use technology, data and emerging talent engagement strategies to gain the visibility and speed you need to redefine work and optimize productivity?

Listen to Sam Ellis, head of Experienced Talent Acquisition, PwC UK, and Randstad Sourceright global CEO Mike Smith, to hear how PwC UK is implementing strategies to achieve more holistic workforce planning and greater agility in today’s hard-to-predict environment.

Gain insights and data from the latest Talent Trends research, and find out how you can use technology, collaboration and intelligence to drive smarter — and faster — decisions for your organization.

“High unemployment rates” and “thousands of people losing their jobs every day” have been the common headlines since March 2020. Yet, according to Randstad Sourceright's 2021 Talent Trends report 2 out of 5 human capital leaders still say that talent scarcity has a negative impact on their business, the highest this number has been in five years.. What does talent want? What new trends are shaping in a post-COVID world and how will these impact you?

In this interview, Matej Hoyt, a talent advisor at Randstad Sourceright, gives an inside look at how companies are attracting, sourcing and hiring the right talent for their organizations in today's challenging conditions. Find out the impact the pandemic has had in recruitment, the newest trends and how these are shaping the world of work in the years to come.

Closing a still-growing skills gap. Engaging virtual workforces. Responding to shifting market conditions. Are these some of the challenges you are facing?

How will you access the talent you need to drive growth while enhancing workforce agility as we pivot into a transformed global economy? How can you use data and technology to drive productivity and business growth?

Cindy Keaveney, chief people officer at Randstad, speaks with Jonathan Berlan, global head of Candidate Experience at UCB, and Mike Smith, global CEO of Randstad Sourceright, to talk about how UCB attracts talent in the highly-competitive biopharmaceutical industry and elevates the talent experience in virtual environments. You’ll also learn how you can get ahead of a growing skills gap driven by rapid digital transformation.

Gallup cites that companies lose $450-550 billion in productivity each year as a result of disengaged employees. And Harvard Business Review reports that turnover is significantly higher three years after an employee’s experience of exclusion.

You know that inclusion at work is important. But with the global pandemic, virtual working environments and social unrest disrupting business as usual, how can you ensure that you’re providing a welcoming environment for your diverse workforce? 

What do you need to consider to help your talent feel heard, understood and valued?

Listen to Randstad Sourceright vice president of D&I, Floss Aggrey for a 40-minute educational session on how to be more inclusive during these challenging times. You’ll also learn what barriers the pandemic, remote working and social unrest may present for your workforce and what inclusive leaders can focus on during challenging times to the benefit of talent and the business.

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation, but only 46% of human capital leaders are confident they possess the talent and resources to accelerate their digital journey over the next 12 months. Will a lack of digital skills slow your business recovery?

Listen to Michael Smith, global CEO of Randstad Sourceright, and Cindy Keaveney, chief people officer of Randstad Global Businesses to benchmark your organization’s COVID-19 response.

You’ll learn how you can build an agile workforce, protect your employer brand, and achieve recovery and growth.