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How to Create Local Community Benefits with Smarter Procurement
Amazing local community benefits can be created by embedding social procurement. The public sector’s lead is there to be followed. Socially-conscious procurement may be today’s hot topic among corporate brands. But for public sector procurement types, the idea of delivering local benefits is nothing new. Since 2012, for example, relevant UK bodies have had to … Continue reading How to Create Local Community Benefits with Smarter Procurement
Struggling to Hire Contingent Talent? Here’s How to Help your Supply Chain
The shortage of skilled workers is nothing new. But if procurement adapts, it can help take pressure off recruitment suppliers. It’s easy to see today’s global talent shortages as a recent phenomenon. In truth, they’re anything but new. Covid-19 and, in the UK, Brexit didn’t create a shortage of talent – they just made it … Continue reading Struggling to Hire Contingent Talent? Here’s How to Help your Supply Chain
Contingent Workforce: Why Procurement Still Hasn’t Found What It’s Looking For
In some ways the procurement profession is in a stronger position than ever before. But in others, in the words of great philosopher Bono, we “still haven’t found what we’re looking for” when it comes to the contingent workforce. Different Categories, Different Organisations, Different Value Is our role really about cost reduction when it comes down to it? … Continue reading Contingent Workforce: Why Procurement Still Hasn’t Found What It’s Looking For
Recruitment Insider: Demand For Temporary Workers Fast Outstripping Supply
Demand for workers is accelerating so fast that it’s outstripping supply. How can organisations find the employees they need without racking up a whole load of extra cost? Jon Milton explains the elephant in the recruitment room. A cursory look at REC jobs market figures show that turnover in the recruitment industry for 2014/2015 was £31.5bn, the … Continue reading Recruitment Insider: Demand For Temporary Workers Fast Outstripping Supply