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What is On-Demand Recruitment?

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No matter the industry, all organizations experience fluctuations in hiring need, from times when hiring slows down or halts completely to times when hiring spikes at an accelerated pace. If your organization is struggling to meet a sudden need for talent or internal recruiting resources are stretched thin, engaging an on-demand recruitment provider can drastically improve your talent acquisition outcomes.

In this article, we take a look at how organizations can leverage on-demand recruiting solutions to meet their short-term or interim talent acquisition needs.

How Does On-Demand Recruitment Work?

On-demand recruitment is a specialized recruiting solution with a focus on flexibility, speed and industry-specific talent expertise. When your internal recruitment team needs a little extra help or if your organization has limited resources, think of it as “leasing” a team of recruiters to enhance your organization’s in-house talent acquisition capabilities. On-demand recruitment provides you with the flexibility of choosing when and for how long you need talent acquisition services based solely on your needs.

How does on-demand recruitment work?

  • The on-demand recruitment process begins with a quick 15-20 minute meeting to discuss your unique recruiting challenges.
  • An on-demand team of recruiters and sourcers are deployed and immediately work to recruit the talent you need.
  • You can engage your team of on-demand recruiters for a few weeks or a few months—as much time as you need to fulfill your talent requirements.
  • After the engagement, the on-demand team rapidly disengages and can be rehired should the need arise.

On-demand recruiting solutions differ from traditional staffing agencies and contract recruiters in that they can scale up or down instantly according to client need, they bring easy to implement recruiting programs, cutting-edge talent technology and work closely with hiring managers for the length of the engagement.

When Should You Engage an On-Demand Recruitment Partner? 

The speed, flexibility and scalability of on-demand recruitment benefits organizations of all sizes and across all industries. Consider engaging an on-demand recruitment provider if you are experiencing one or more of the following talent acquisition challenges: 

  • If your organization is experiencing rapid growth in hiring that eclipses your internal recruiting resources.
  • You have experienced an unexpected surge in employee turnover and need to backfill roles as soon as possible.
  • If your hiring needs are inconsistent or unpredictable and you need support for your in-house talent team on an on-again, off-again basis.
  • If you need to fill one or more niche or hard-to-fill roles quickly.
  • If you need support sourcing talent to fill your candidate pipeline with qualified talent.

If your organization is considering a full-cycle recruitment process outsourcing solution, an on-demand recruitment solution provides a low-risk, limited-time pilot program to see if outsourced talent acquisition is right for you. 

The Benefits of On-Demand Recruitment

On-demand recruiting services are an increasingly popular option for organizations that want to shift from staffing agencies and contract recruiters in favor of a more strategic partner with speed, efficiency and effectiveness at the core of their approach.

On-Demand Recruitment

With on-demand recruitment, you not only get an expert team of recruiters, but you also get the proven processes and technology needed to make the right hire, support for your internal efforts, improve candidate flow and reduce recruiting costs. Below, we cover the benefits of on-demand recruitment in more detail.

Access to a Readily Available Pool of Experienced Recruiters 

When you engage an on-demand recruitment partner, you are provided with a team of skilled recruiters with industry-specific expertise that supplement—not replace—your existing HR or recruiting teams. You get the support you need immediately, with the ability to scale and flex as your demands change. The recruiters follow your current recruitment processes and use your existing technologies, so there’s no disruption to your talent program. Recruiters also come with access to vast talent networks across multiple industries and professions.

Access to Proprietary Talent Technology 

Your team of on-demand recruiters not only comes with years of recruiting expertise, but they are also equipped with talent technology tools that provide greater reach and insights into your target talent markets. Recruiters are also trained in the use of many of the most popular ATS and CRM systems, so your legacy talent technology won’t be an obstacle to the team deployed at your organization.  

Address Urgent Hiring Needs Without a Long-Term Commitment 

On-demand recruitment provides organizations with recruiting support without long-term contracts or the fees associated with traditional staffing agencies. You can leverage the expertise of experienced recruitment professionals when and where you need them with a quick and seamless implementation process—all without increasing your permanent recruiter headcount. On-demand recruitment can be a one-time engagement, or you can re-engage at any point in the future when needs arise.

Workforce Insights and Performance Management 

On-demand recruitment solutions can provide deep-dive analytics on the candidate marketplace and recruiting landscape in your industry. These insights can be applied during and after the engagement to improve your recruiting outcomes. On-demand teams also work with stakeholders to set recruiting expectations and provide detailed weekly tracking of candidate pipelining, recruiting outcomes and provide transparency and accountability. 

Recruiter On-DemandTM, the PeopleScout Difference

With PeopleScout’s Recruiter On-DemandTM, you can leverage the expertise of PeopleScout’s experienced recruitment professionals who combine technology, data and expertise to provide a one-of-a-kind solution to help you elevate your organization’s growth and talent program.

Recruiter On-Demand Provides:

  • The ability to swiftly meet hiring needs with proven industry-specific talent acquisition solutions.
  • The ability to expand and contract your recruiting capacity when and where it’s needed. 
  • The ability to replace the process of hiring and training new recruiters with an approach that provides predictable variable costs.

PeopleScout’s Recruiter on On-Demand solution is not a one-size-fits-all answer to any single recruitment challenge. Rather, it’s the right solution tailored to the circumstances unique to your organization.

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PEOPLESCOUT’S RESPONSE TO COVID-19: Working Together to Prevent, Protect and Contain

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PeopleScout
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response
March 17, 2020 Update

At PeopleScout and the broader TrueBlue organization, the health and well-being of our employees and clients around the globe is our top priority. We are operating with an abundance of caution to keep our employees and clients safe during the fast-evolving coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We also stand committed to supporting our clients and suppliers through this time.

The PeopleScout and TrueBlue crisis response team is monitoring the situation closely and adjusting our internal policies in alignment with global, country and local health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Safety Council.

Policy Approach: In setting policies and taking action related to the coronavirus, our intent is, at a minimum, to follow guidance from relevant authorities such as the WHO, CDC and OSHA. When additional or more extensive actions are prudent in light of the nature of our operations, we will do more than the standard guidance suggests to safeguard our employees.

Information Sharing: We have established a coronavirus information hub for our employees to make it easy for them to stay informed and protected with access to safety recommendations, frequently asked questions and links to useful resources. On the hub, employees can also submit individual questions and report risks to our crisis response team for immediate action. We also are producing a regular cadence of outbound communications and in-office communications to ensure that our employees are kept up to date on policy changes and critical developments. 

Work From Home Policy: The vast majority of PeopleScout employees are equipped to work from home, which provides us with a great deal of flexibility when the situation calls for work site restrictions. Work from home protocols are part of our business continuity plans and have been implemented at our locations around the world and at client sites based on elevated risk, mandated social distancing measures and changes to client policies.

Healthy Work Environment: As part of our usual protocol, PeopleScout promotes a healthy work environment by encouraging sick employees to stay home and by providing office cleaning services and hygiene supplies such as hand sanitizers. As part of our coronavirus response, we have implemented enhanced environmental hygiene measures and are regularly sharing and reinforcing the measures recommended by the WHO, CDC, OSHA and other health authorities to help protect against coronavirus.

Travel Policy: We have temporarily suspended international travel and have restricted all non-critical domestic travel. Employees who have traveled to high-risk areas will be asked to work from home. Our goal is to reduce the risk that anyone at PeopleScout might contract or inadvertently spread the virus. These policy changes are important steps to help minimize the spread of coronavirus. We will continue to monitor the situation and adjust this policy as additional information becomes available from world health authorities.  

Self-Quarantine Procedure: All employees and contractors who have traveled (or whose household members/those with whom they have close or frequent contact have traveled) to, or transited through, any high-risk area, or who have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 are required to complete a 14-day waiting period at home before returning to an office or client site. The timeline begins the date the individual undergoing the waiting period or household member returned to their home country or when they came into contact with the infected individual.

Business Continuity: PeopleScout has well-planned and documented capabilities for continuing to provide world-class service to our clients no matter what challenges we may experience in our work environments. This includes crisis-management, emergency response and business continuity plans, as well as client-specific protocols. Our scalable global delivery centers and virtual teams provide a great deal of flexibility about where work is performed, and our client-specific plans take into account our work sites as well as our clients. As part of our response to the coronavirus outbreak, we are currently conducting exercises to ensure our readiness to implement regional business continuity plans and client-specific protocols and that our employees are well-informed and prepared.

Supply Management: We have implemented rapid-reporting cycles to enable us to quickly identify potential candidate or worker availability shortages and are implementing plans to increase candidate benches for in-demand worker types. We are ready to work with our clients to redirect recruiting or staffing efforts to different facilities or regions as well as to examine current talent acquisition processes to find ways to make them more virtual through our technology platform.

MSP Supplier Management: PeopleScout’s MSP supplier management team is sharing the steps that PeopleScout is taking to promote a healthy work environment with our MSP supplier network and asking them to follow the WHO, CDC and OSHA recommendations. Suppliers are being instructed to engage with clients on local facility business continuity plans, to bring questions to our team for triaging and to notify us immediately of any concerns. We are also communicating regularly with our suppliers to ensure that we have as much advance warning as possible about issues that could disrupt supply and are proactively evaluating our supply base to ensure that we have adequate coverage in high-risk areas and high-demand skill types.

Virtual TA Solutions: We are offering virtual interview solutions to support clients who have enacted no-contact hiring. We are also are ready with recruiter on-demand solutions and can support contingent staffing needs through our MSP practice and our PeopleReady staffing brand.

Client Resource Center: We have developed a client resource center to provide up-to-date information on PeopleScout’s response to COVID-19 and useful information for managing through these uncertain times. 

PeopleScout is committed to supporting our clients’ current needs and emerging needs through the coronavirus outbreak. First and foremost, our commitment is to continue to deliver excellent service while communicating transparently. That begins with regular sharing of our response to coronavirus and continues with ongoing communication about how coronavirus is impacting the markets in which we operate and sharing any specific threats to supply.

Additionally, many organizations have already experienced significant impact to business demand and operations. We are seeing a meaningful shift in client talent needs; demand is down in some markets and peaking in others, and we are receiving requests for workers to help safeguard employees and clients and reinforce response efforts. At PeopleScout and TrueBlue, we are committed to nimbly supporting our clients through this situation.

Whether our clients need to scale up their workforce, tap into new talent pools or find high-quality contract workers, we stand ready to support them. PeopleScout has proactively engaged in resource management and training for key talent sectors, including both on-demand recruitment support and contingent labor pools. We are experts in quickly identifying and placing talent and can help our clients deliver on their organization’s response team recommendations. We can also help guide their business continuity plans, sourcing workers from geographically dispersed talent pools or pulling together spot teams to maximize operational readiness to ensure minimal distribution and service disruptions. 

If our client’s organization is on the front lines providing critical care to those affected, or their business will be impacted by the global response, our goal is to help them fulfill their organization’s commitments to their employees and customers.

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COVID-19 Series: Keeping Candidates and Employees Safe with a Virtual Hiring Solution

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As organizations around the globe confront the challenges presented by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, even the most seasoned talent leaders find themselves in uncharted territory. We’re creating a miniseries with our experts here at PeopleScout about the issues that are most pressing during this uncertain time.

We are focused on the safety of our employees and clients, friends, families and loved ones. However, it is important for many organizations to keep their talent acquisition functions moving – whether to provide essential services or to serve our communities by providing jobs. Many organizations are also now adapting to a newly virtual workforce.

In that spirit, in this podcast, we share insights from PeopleScout Global Leader of Affinix Client Success and Strategy Allison Brigden on transitioning to a virtual talent acquisition solution.

Allison has been with PeopleScout since 1995 and has served in roles related to implementing and managing complex RPO programs as well as operations and technology. In her current role, Allison focuses on leveraging technology to elevate the talent strategy and client success through Affinix, PeopleScout’s proprietary talent technology platform. Allison leads an Affinix Client Success Team and our strategic technology partnerships. The Affinix Client Success Team is focused on understanding our clients’ objectives with Affinix and creating positive outcomes. She also possesses a deep commitment to corporate social responsibility, with an emphasis on military veteran advocacy. Allison holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah.

At PeopleScout, we’re all dealing with the same changes—working from home and recording these podcasts from a distance, so things may sound a bit different than you’re used to hearing.