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02 Aug Flextrack and Brightfield – Real-Time Market Data and the Extended Workforce

Posted at 19:32h in new by Jeff Mike

Enterprise people strategies are increasingly reliant on the extended workforce to ensure access to talent in a challenging market. According to recent estimates, the non-employee workforce accounts for approximately 35% to 47% of the average company’s total workforce in America.[1]’[2] In addition, about 90% of...

28 Jul Direct Sourcing: Gateway to a Unified Workforce Strategy

Posted at 16:01h in new by Jeff Mike

Whether leading a team or teaching graduate courses, I always offer two points of advice to emerging HR leaders: Go make friends with Finance. Today. Right now. And then do the same with IT. It is simply impossible to deliver compelling employee experiences and help...

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27 Jul Think Differently About Integrating Your Talent Ecosystem

Posted at 17:58h in new by Mark Zolkos

I’ve written numerous blogs over the past six months about enabling talent ecosystems for organizations. I’ve highlighted how there's no single technology that can solve all your talent needs. Only by constructing an ecosystem of solutions will businesses be able to source and manage all...

30 Jun Why is Integrating Extended Workforce Data Into Your People Analytics Practices a Must for Success?

Posted at 20:37h in new by Mark Zolkos

Vendor Management Systems (VMS), like Flextrack, generate countless data points on procuring and leveraging the non-employee or contingent workforce into an enterprise workforce strategy. Tracking metrics on hiring, how long it takes, process bottlenecks, worker utilization, tenure, attrition, cost, compliance, diversity, satisfaction, risk and more...

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29 Jun Dispatch From Salesforce World Tour NYC: Relationship Management Transforms the Extended Workforce Experience

Posted at 14:52h in new by Jeff Mike

Employee experience is coming to the extended workforce. In January, I joined Flextrack, an extended workforce solution, to help enterprising organizations cultivate their non-employee workforces with an amazing team of experts and a platform as a service (Paas) architecture built on Salesforce. Last week, the Salesforce World...

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24 Jun 3 Benefits of Harmonizing Your Talent Sourcing Technologies

Posted at 14:35h in new by Mark Zolkos

A number of core technologies are available for enterprise talent sourcing, and they vary whether you hire employees or non-employees. While there are similarities to what these systems do, they are not the same. They have different aims and value propositions, and they all play...

Jeff Mike at the 2022 SHRM Annual Conference & Expo

17 Jun Dispatch from the SHRM 2022 Annual Conference & Expo: A Call for HR Leadership and Innovation

Posted at 00:00h in new by Jeff Mike

It was a real thrill to join over 15,000 HR professionals this year in New Orleans, and more online, at the 2022 SHRM Annual Conference & Expo. While the hybrid format of the conference mirrors the increasingly permanent hybrid workplace we are all adjusting to,...

03 Jun How Can An MSP Leverage New Technology to Better Serve Customers?

Posted at 15:38h in new by Mark Zolkos

A very long time ago, one of my previous mentors told me that, “technology is all about getting to your bottlenecks faster.” His point was technology is developed to automate a process or interaction. And ultimately, this technology can uncover the gaps in service is or...

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31 May UNLEASH America 2022 – Never Normal, Reinvention and Humanizing Technology

Posted at 14:47h in new by Jeff Mike

It’s late spring 2022, and in-person HR and technology conferences are back in a big way. Over two years of pent-up demand for full interaction with colleagues, networks, solution providers, and industry leaders has channeled into some amazing events, including UNLEASH America held last week...

Two young female professionals looking at a screen are discovering ways to optimize their talent strategy with new VMS technology.

19 May Supercharge your talent sourcing: Break down old school thinking and technology to keep up with a challenging market

Posted at 15:14h in new by Mark Zolkos

An effective talent sourcing strategy needs to be multi-pronged. Hiring teams need to be able to connect with a whole ecosystem of suppliers that have different reaches, aims, markets or specializations—including diverse and underrepresented groups. Businesses need to be able to switch suppliers and add...