Direct Sourcing
The benefits of a Talent Network, and how organizations can build and utilize them.
View More
Direct sourcing tools make it easy for self-employed professionals to engage with your organization. Here are four benefits these tools can offer.
View More
What Does a Centralized Engagement Program Include? As the demand for independent talent grows, many organizations are using their own resources to directly source top independent talent without engaging third-party staffing agencies or consulting firms to perform recruiting functions. Direct sourcing affords many economic benefits such as avoiding high-priced staffing markups, decreasing overhead costs by hiring…
View More
Today, organizations have unprecedented access to a 42 million strong pool of independent talent. And that talent comes in more shapes and sizes than ever before—contractors, consultants, freelancers, side giggers, and more are labeled as 1099 or W-2 workers, and the list goes on. Meanwhile, alongside continued growth in this labor market, 51% of global executives plan to increase…
View More
As the use of independent professional talent continues to grow, savvy organizations must find a way to directly engage this workforce in a faster, more cost-effective way. With nearly one-quarter of Full Time Independents planning on using an online talent platform to find work in the next year, organizations must offer an accessible, easy-to-use engagement platform in…
View More
As programming around the world of independent work evolves, so does the lexicon that accompanies it. We at MBO Partners have noticed that this can often result in confusion among independents and enterprises alike–one person’s gig worker is another’s freelancer and still another’s independent consultant–and those terms can (but don’t always) mean the same thing.…
View More
Before we dig in, let’s talk about quality and quantity and the size of your talent network. If you’ve ever posted an opening to a job board, then you are aware that there are generally many responses (quantity) to each posting. The administrative task of filtering through candidates to find the right fit can be…
View More
Enterprise companies today are fully engaged in what has become the “war for talent.” From offering flexible hours to providing in-office perks ranging from bocce ball and free meals to hackathons, companies are heavily investing in attracting talent and keeping them around for the long term. There are plenty of articles you can find out…
View More
Since the dawn of the American enterprise, leadership and executive teams have always been faced with the same pressing question: how do you source your skilled talent? When seeking specialists and subject-matter experts, that talent frequently comes in the form of independent professionals. This pursuit of independent contractors as a component of strategic sourcing initiatives has…
View More