<h2>A detailed report for tech stacks where we believe innovation, growth, and investment will be at its highest.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>During this pandemic, organisations, including ours, had to quickly decide if our tech stack was optimised and capable of supporting remote work globally. Technology is, now more than ever before, the facilitator that allows us to respond now, and in the future, with speed and accuracy.</p>
<p>Direct from our tech experts, this report will provide insight on the tech trends every HR and Procurement leader should be aware of! If you are responsible for your organisation's workforce management, make sure you are up to speed with these 6 key talent tech trends for 2021 and beyond.</p>
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<h3><strong>Access your copy of the report by filling in the form opposite</strong></h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Have you been looking for ways to remove bias from the hiring process and more accurately test an individual&rsquo;s strengths for developing new skills?</p>
<p>Do you need to seamlessly vet technical skills and validate candidate credentials in a remote world?</p>
<p>Can your organisation benefit from emerging talent strategies that connect you with top talent in a fast, flexible and cost effective way?</p>
<p>This report will provide guidance on the technology providers who are able to deliver, along with other trends to look out for in 2021 and beyond.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>What's covered in this report</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Testing and assessment tools for the future of work</li>
<li>Direct sourcing and freelance marketplace technologies</li>
<li>The changing ownership of data and its impact on new tech</li>
<li>Realising the true power of data and analytics</li>
</ul>
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6 Talent Tech Trends For 2021 & Beyond

<h2>The advanced guide to accomplishing your business goals through attracting the right talent.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Acquiring highly skilled talent is one of the most difficult aspects of our industry today. With record-low unemployment, a widening skills gap, and a fast-changing world of work, the industry&rsquo;s forward-thinking resourcing professionals are employing strategic workforce planning to ensure the right talent is in place to deliver long-term business goals.</p>
<p>Despite the need for strategic workforce planning, businesses have been slow to adopt or invest in it. Given the tumultuous state of the current job market, understanding and implementing advanced workforce planning is critical.</p>
<p>Following on from our introductory guide, which you can also download, our new advanced guide delves deeper into how data-led analytics are changing our industry, as well as how to best use this approach to drive long-term growth and future proof a business.</p>
<p>Download our strategic workforce planning guide now to discover how strategic workforce planning is essential in our rapidly changing economy, the changing role of MSP and RPO, the building blocks of advanced workforce planning and how data-led analytics are the key to long-term success.</p>
<p>If you would like further support in defining your overall talent needs and implementing strategic workforce planning to close your skills gaps, we are here to help! Get in touch to request a resource planning workshop.</p>

Advanced guide to workforce planning

<h3>2023 promises to be a year unlike any other. With rampant inflation, economic uncertainty, and a volatile labor market, enterprises must balance agility, flexibility, and dynamic strategies to thrive in these uncertain times.</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Guidant Global is pleased to bring you this Ardent Partners and Future of Work Exchange research report, which highlights the key trends of today&rsquo;s dynamic world of work and their implications on business operations in the year ahead.</p>
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<p>The report is based on survey responses from over 300 procurement, HR and talent acquisition executives in late 2022. Global responses included North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. Ardent&rsquo;s analyst team identified 7 key trends for 2023.</p>
<p><strong>A preview of the research findings:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>77% of businesses state that direct sourcing has allowed them to hire higher-quality skillsets and expertise</li>
<li>65% of businesses plan to leverage AI and related technology to measure and improve diversity over the next two years</li>
<li>82% of businesses utilized more contingent labor and extended talent in 2022 than in 2021</li>
</ul>
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<h3><strong>Download the report to get all the latest insight based on primary research</strong></h3>
<p><strong>About Ardent partners</strong></p>
<p>Ardent Partners is the leading research and advisory firm with a specific focus on the supply management space which includes procurement, accounts payable, and the Future of Work. Since 2010, Ardent Partners has delivered the highest quality research and advisory services to the solution providers in the industry.</p>

Ardent Partners: The Future of Work is Now: Top Trends for 2023

<h2>A beginner&rsquo;s guide for HR, Talent Acquisition and Resourcing Professionals. Leverage a strategic approach to hiring to improve talent acquisition and drive growth.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Reaching the right talent to help your business grow isn&rsquo;t easy. In fact, our recent survey into UK hiring trends showed that four in five hiring managers are struggling to source the talent their business needs to thrive. We are witnessing similar trends across almost every other advanced economy. Talent is in high demand, but is in critically short supply.</p>
<p>It will come as no surprise therefore that savvy resourcing professionals are moving away from reactionary recruitment. Instead businesses are taking a more strategic and proactive approach to their long-term talent acquisition and workforce management plans, doing everything they can to future-proof their organisation.</p>
<p>However, for those not used to working in such a strategic way, it can be difficult to know where to start. In a bid to help, we&rsquo;ve put together a top level overview of how to go about your workforce planning, along with some simple templates to get you started.</p>
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<h3>Download our workforce planning guide now and discover how to:&nbsp;</h3>
<ul>
<li>Identify your highest level talent priorities</li>
<li>Translate business goals into talent needs</li>
<li>Close the gaps and build an action plan&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

Beginners Guide to Workforce Planning

<h2>How to gain approval and reach your contingent workforce goals</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>A detailed guide that serves as a roadmap for organisations to build a successful case for outsourced MSP services&nbsp;</p>
<p>The number of contingent workers continues to rise globally. More and more organisations are choosing flexibility and short-term projects over traditional, full-time employment. The need to manage this population in a strategic, thoughtful way is critical to compete for resources and stay competitive.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Access your copy of the guide by filling in the form opposite&nbsp;<br>Have you been looking for ways to increase candidate quality and engagement, find cost savings, rationalise your supply base, and reduce compliance risk?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Do you lack an efficient, centralised way to track and manage your entire contingent workforce?</p>
<p>Can your organisation benefit from being more agile and flexible with the disruption taking place around the world?</p>
<p>This guide details the exact steps required to build a business case to bring in an MSP provider to address all of this and more.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>What's covered in the guide</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What&rsquo;s required to build a successful business case based on working with hundreds of global private and public sector organisations</li>
<li>How to build a problem definition, project recommendations, assess ROI, and determine project scope, goals, and objectives</li>
<li>How to understand project risks that may arise and how to address them</li>
<li>How the business case should align with organisational strategic goals</li>
</ul>
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Building a business case: MSP

<h2>A detailed guide that serves as a roadmap for organisations to decide the future of your contingent workforce MSP programme</h2>
<p><br>Given today&rsquo;s rapidly changing, complex environment, we know you&rsquo;re dealing with a lot of challenges. With these challenges comes great opportunity -- to advance and transform your MSP programme, find greater cost savings, and look towards talent strategies that will ensure you&rsquo;re attracting and retaining the best contingent talent in the future.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Have you been looking for ways to move from a tactical to a more strategic MSP programme?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Do you want to drive more value from your existing/new MSP partner?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Do you have additional spend categories that need managed?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Can your organisation benefit from being more agile and flexible, making better use of the contingent workforce with the disruption taking place around the world?</strong></p>
<p>This guide details the exact steps required to determine if you should expand your existing programme or bring in a new MSP partner.</p>
<p><strong>What's covered in the guide:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What&rsquo;s required to build a successful business case based on working with hundreds of global private and public sector organisations</li>
<li>How to build a problem definition, programme recommendations, assess ROI, and determine future programme goals</li>
<li>How to assess current state and get alignment on future goals</li>
<li>How to ensure you are getting the most from your programme</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Access your copy of the guide by filling in the form opposite</strong></h3>

Building a business case: Second-generation MSP

<h3>The coronavirus pandemic has been the architect of many changes for businesses and has increased the rate at which they happen.</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>None more so than the speed at which the fourth industrial revolution is taking place, making it the ideal time to show your employees you care.</p>
<p>We&rsquo;re pleased to bring you this special report by Business Reporter, Automatic for the people, distributed with The Economist.</p>
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<h3><strong>Access your copy of the report by filling in the form</strong></h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This edition of Business Reporter&rsquo;s Future of Work series features Guidant Global COO Brian Salkowski, along with contributors from the world of HR, tech and talent management. It explores how establishing trust and embracing a contingent workforce, while planning for change, can help businesses to navigate one of the most challenging periods they&rsquo;ve ever faced.</p>
<p><strong>Key features include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Navigating digital transformation and the fourth industrial revolution.</li>
<li>Embracing the golden age of contingent workforces.</li>
<li>How business leaders should lead from the front when it comes to mental health.</li>
<li>The race for office space.</li>
<li>How to pay attention to your biggest untapped resource, your staff.</li>
<li>Why hybrid working is so much more than a choice between the office and home.</li>
</ul>

Business Reporter: Automatic for the people

<h2>Covid-19 has drastically changed the way work gets done.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And after more than a year of remote working, one serious challenge remains: from behind a screen, how do we show our employees that we care?</p>
<p>To answer this question, we bring you a special report entitled The great screen test &ndash; published by Business Reporter and distributed with The Economist.</p>
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<h3><strong>Fill in the form to access your copy</strong></h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This edition of Business Reporter&rsquo;s Future of Work series features Guidant Global COO Brian Salkowski, along with contributors from the world of HR, tech and talent management.</p>
<p>It explores the changing future of contingent work, where a focus on trust and employee wellbeing will be crucial to harnessing the best results.</p>
<p><strong>Key features include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>In the hybrid future, work is where you make it</li>
<li>The changing future of contingent work</li>
<li>Why healthier headspaces are better for business</li>
<li>How to make the most out of conferencing software</li>
<li>Why a lack of people strategy will be the biggest post-pandemic threat</li>
<li>How to build a culture of excellence</li>
</ul>
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Business Reporter: The great screen test

<h3>Generation Z are often stereotyped as oversensitive and addicted to their phones.</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>But like any new generation, they&rsquo;re both misunderstood and underestimated by previous ones - and they&rsquo;re forecast to make up a quarter of the workforce by 2025.</p>
<p>This issue of Business Reporter&rsquo;s Future of Work series, distributed with The Independent and entitled The Z factor, looks at how businesses need to adapt to harness Gen Z&rsquo;s energy and passion.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Featuring the latest advice from Guidant Global COO Brian Salkowski on finding (and keeping) the right people when talent is scarce, this issue is packed with insight into work habits, the nature of the workplace, talent acquisition, the role of tech - and much more.</p>
<p><strong>Key features include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>City limits: how post-Covid work is escaping the metropolis</li>
<li>Why micro-delays are hampering your business's productivity</li>
<li>How businesses can harness the power of the next generation</li>
<li>Why changing workplace culture demands better technology</li>
<li>Staying afloat in the face of a labour shortage nightmare</li>
</ul>
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Business Reporter: The Z factor

<h3>The aim of this guide is simple: to help you understand and structure an RFP in a way that gives you the highest likelihood of finding an outsourced partner who delivers the right outsourced solution for your organisation.</h3>
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<p>If you would like further support or advice in creating your RFP - be that assessing your challenges to define clear objective and appropriate goals, or strategies to help you in obtaining the data required for a great RFP &ndash; we are here to help.</p>
<p>HR and procurement experts are no stranger to RFPs. Whether you&rsquo;re the one writing them, issuing them, or you&rsquo;re assessing bids, learning what makes for an exceptional RFP can have a big impact on the quality of solutions you receive. Without the right research, objectives and structure, an RFP will rarely deliver proposals that truly meet your staffing needs. All too often, people working in HR and procurement are left with an uncomfortable compromise. But it doesn&rsquo;t have to be this way.</p>
<p>Based on our experience of responding to over a thousand RFPs from both public and private sector organisations from across the globe, this in-depth guide to creating an RFP for outsourced workforce solutions is the best place to start. Though no two RFPs are the same (and this guide is far from a copy-and-paste, one-size-fits-all RFP template), there are some actions that can be employed to ensure that an RFP attracts outsourced workforce solutions that truly align with the business need.</p>
<p>In Part 1 of the &lsquo;Creating an RFP for outsourced workforce solutions&rsquo; guide, we&rsquo;ll cover the following five sections: General information RFP instructions Scope Worker utilisation data Goals and objectives These sections, in combination with Part 2 &ndash; which will be published next month &ndash; provide all the information you&rsquo;ll ever need to ensure that your business receives the best outsourced workforce solution.</p>
<h2><strong>Download Part 1 now to get started</strong></h2>

Creating an RFP for outsourced workforce solutions - part 1

<h2>In Part 2 of the complete guide, we explore the key components of every successful RFP not discussed already in Part 1.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>These are Mandatory requirements General organisational requirements (scored) Customer references and satisfaction (scored) MSP capabilities (scored) Cost proposal (scored).</p>
<p>By the end of Part 2, you should have all the tools, knowledge and insight necessary for creating an effective RFP. Not only will you be able to create clarity for outsourced solution providers, but ultimately, you will ensure that you acquire the right solution for your business.</p>
<p>As a procurement or HR professional, to ensure that your business gets the best outsourced talent solution, you need to create an effective RFP.</p>
<p>Businesses may have been using RFPs for decades, but for professionals writing RFPs, the process is still complex and time-consuming. With a more methodical, structured approach, however, you can ensure that every RFP issued produces the best bids, and ultimately, the best business outcomes.</p>
<p>If you would like further support or advice in creating your RFP - be that assessing your challenges to define clear objective and appropriate goals, or strategies to help you in obtaining the data required for a great RFP &ndash; we are here to help.</p>
<h3><strong>Download Part 2 now</strong></h3>

Creating an RFP for outsourced workforce solutions - part 2

<h2>In this report, we look into the how&rsquo;s and why&rsquo;s of contingent workforce Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&amp;I) and offer 12 strategies for success - based on insight from those who have &ldquo;walked the walk&rdquo;.&nbsp;</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Over the last decade, a great deal of effort went into improving representation among the permanent workforce. Their contingent counterparts, on the other hand, have sometimes been overlooked.</p>
<p>However, with reliance on contingent workers growing, failing to drive diversity in the contingent workforce will be detrimental to innovation, sustainability and the competitiveness of an organisation.</p>
<p>It can&rsquo;t be overlooked that temporary resources have great potential to become permanent employees &ndash; offering a highly-engaged and qualified talent pool. Alienating any portion of the workforce when you&rsquo;re already struggling to recruit makes no sense.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Get your copy to learn:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The driving forces behind DE&amp;I</li>
<li>The need for diverse CWM solutions</li>
<li>Why contingent worker diversity matters to Procurement</li>
<li>12 strategies to drive DE&amp;I in the contingent workforce</li>
<li>Moving the CW DE&amp;I dial&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
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Driving DE&I in the contingent workforce: 12 winning strategies

<h2>A detailed guide that serves as a roadmap for organisations to successfully implement an MSP programme</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Once you have selected an MSP partner, you&rsquo;re ready to implement the programme throughout your organisation. The next goal is to get your business into the best shape it can be for a successful implementation and to realise the benefits of your MSP as quickly as possible.</p>
<h3><strong>Access your copy of the guide by filling in the form opposite</strong></h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>You will be asking yourself:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Do I know the right questions to ask my key internal stakeholders to begin our implementation?</li>
<li>Do I have a good idea of the level of involvement needed from our team?</li>
<li>Has a realistic timeframe been set for programme go-live?</li>
<li>This guide details the exact steps required to implement an MSP programme that addresses all of this and more.</li>
<li>What's covered in the guide</li>
<li>What&rsquo;s required for a successful implementation based on working with hundreds of global private and public sector organisations</li>
<li>Ensuring your organisation&rsquo;s readiness, including having access to all necessary data</li>
<li>What (and who) is involved in a successful project kick-off</li>
<li>How to set a realistic programme implementation timeline</li>
<li>Detailed steps on what&rsquo;s included for programme execution</li>
</ul>
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Essential guide to a successful MSP implementation

<h2>Businesses across the world are facing three enormous talent management challenges: a huge talent supply-demand mismatch, high attrition rates caused by &lsquo;the great resignation&rsquo;, and (unsurprisingly) wage inflation.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Against this backdrop, more organisations than ever are turning to contingent talent in order to keep competing, disrupting, and innovating in their markets.</p>
<p>This report, by leading global research firm Everest Group, explains how businesses can grasp this once-in-a-lifetime shift and get true value from their contingent workforces.</p>
<p><strong>Get your copy to learn about:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Delivering a superior experience for candidates, workers, hiring managers and other workforce stakeholders</li>
<li>New ways of organising and paying for work, including direct sourcing and statement of work services procurement.</li>
<li>The role of advanced analytics and AI in making decisions about the workforce, suppliers, and spend</li>
<li>The shift to a services-enabled technology model, and the role of the vendor management system</li>
<li>The importance of managed service providers and staffing suppliers in shaping and delivering diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.</li>
</ul>
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Everest Group: The next era in talent management: Leveraging a once-in-a-lifetime strategic shift

<h2>Guidant Global and Coupa provide a detailed look at the challenge, opportunity, and strategies for engaging and managing the future workforce.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>We know you&rsquo;re dealing with a lot of challenges right now. But with these challenges comes great opportunity - to advance and transform your MSP programme, find greater cost savings, take advantage of new talent strategies, and attract and engage talent in a scalable, agile way.</p>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3><strong>Access your copy of this eBook by completing the form</strong></h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>Have you been looking to implement new talent strategies that align with, and take advantage of, shifts in the economy?</li>
<li>Have you been looking for ways to move from a tactical to a more strategic MSP programme?</li>
<li>Are you prepared to engage and manage gig workers, independent contractors, freelancers, and project-based workers?</li>
<li>Can you benefit from being more agile and flexible in how you attract, engage, manage, and vet your extended workforce?</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Our eBook looks at where the global talent market lies today and offers a prescriptive look at what companies should be looking for in the future.</strong></p>
<h3><strong>Access your copy of this eBook by completing the form</strong></h3>

Guidant & Coupa: Is your contingent workforce management strategy prepared for a post-pandemic future?

<h2>A practical guide for employers on how to make their online recruitment practices inclusive and open to all.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Is digital technology playing a bigger role than ever in your talent acquisition? From company websites and social media channels to video interview and assessment tools, finding and hiring people is becoming an increasingly online process.</p>
<p>But where does this leave disabled candidates who face barriers accessing information and completing forms and assessments online? How can you make your online recruitment experience inclusive and accessible to all?</p>
<p>In this guide, Guidant Global&rsquo;s talent acquisition specialists join forces with Recite Me&rsquo;s web accessibility experts to bring you a comprehensive guide to accessible online recruitment.</p>
<p><strong>What&rsquo;s covered in this guide?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Why online access barriers are such a problem</li>
<li>The barriers that employment candidates face</li>
<li>Why inclusivity is so important (and beneficial)</li>
<li>5 ways to provide an inclusive candidate journey</li>
<li>How web accessibility technologies can help</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Complete the form to get your copy of the guide</strong></h3>

Guide to accessible online recruitment

<h2>Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&amp;I) has been one of the hottest topics in the business world. As well as being the right thing to do, countless studies have shown that implementing an efficient ED&amp;I strategy makes business sense.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>With the makeup of the workforce changing &ndash; with a greater reliance on contingent and external talent, as well as an increasing use of service providers &ndash; future proofing your ED&amp;I strategy to cover all areas of your workforce is now vital for your competitive stance.</p>
<p>But in these uncertain and constantly evolving times, knowing how to get ED&amp;I right and ensure its future fit can be a challenge.</p>
<p>In our in-depth exploration of the topic, we aim to equip those in the HR, talent acquisition and workforce management arenas with the insight and guidance needed to design and drive a successful ED&amp;I strategy in today&rsquo;s 'better' normal.</p>
<p><strong>As experts in delivering ED&amp;I, we analyse the best practice approaches, focusing on:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The many facets of ED&amp;I</li>
<li>The key to a successful ED&amp;I strategy: Trust</li>
<li>Getting it right</li>
<li>The Guidant approach: Introducing INfluence</li>
<li>The future</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Fill in the form to access our guide</strong></h3>

How to build an equality, diversity and inclusion strategy for long-term success

<h2>Procurement leaders can&rsquo;t singlehandedly fix the world&rsquo;s talent supply problems. But they can deliver greater value to push their organisations forward in tough times.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>By focusing on what&rsquo;s within their control, procurement leaders and their teams can have a huge impact on the flow of talent into the business.</p>
<p>Effectively managed services spend has a crucial role to play in this.</p>
<p>This report looks at the challenges that are raising the importance of services spend management today, and how strategic statement of work (SoW) management can add greater value.</p>
<h2><strong>Complete the form to get your copy.</strong></h2>
<p><strong>Get your copy to learn:</strong></p>
<p>The top four challenges that are making services spend overly complex</p>
<ul>
<li>Why SoW is the strategic weapon for optimising services spend</li>
<li>How to use SoW to drive business transformation</li>
<li>Why now is the time to harness the full potential of SoW</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Complete the form to get your copy.</strong></h3>

How to use statement of work to maximise services procurement ROI

<h2>There are more ways for a business to access people with the skills and talent they need than ever before.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In addition to the permanent workforce, organizations can make use of an array of traditional service providers, contingent workforce resources, and freelancer specialists to deliver their organizational goals.</p>
<p>Successful services procurement recognizes this diversity of options and optimizes them. By leveraging and combining the different fulfilment models, an organization can ensure that it has access to the talent it needs, in the right form and at an efficient price.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>This new whitepaper created in partnership with Art of Procurement will demonstrate how any organization can increase services procurement efficiency to meet business needs with an adaptable approach that moves with your business.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br><br><strong>Access your copy to discover:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>How to manage services procurement complexity&nbsp;</li>
<li>Services procurement performance indicators&nbsp;</li>
<li>Best practices&nbsp;</li>
<li>How best to manage stakeholder expectations<br><br>And more!&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Fill in the form to access your copy&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h2>

Increasing Services Procurement Efficiency

<h2>More businesses than ever are using statement of work to drive outcome-based value from their services procurement.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>But as projects fall behind budget and schedule and a lack of visibility and control affects the quality of outputs, procurement leaders must now ask:</p>
<p>How can we get more value from our SOW activity?</p>
<p>In this recorded webinar, Mick Feild, our Global VP of Services Procurement, Sally Guyer, the Global CEO at World Commerce &amp; Contracting, and Procurious Founder Tania Seary discuss ways for organisations to maximise ROI from their SOW procurement.</p>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3><strong>Complete the form to watch the recording</strong></h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Watch the recording to learn:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The business benefits of outcome-based SOW services procurement</li>
<li>How Covid-19 upended contract management, and what&rsquo;s changed since</li>
<li>How a VMS and other technologies can help drive impactful change around SOW</li>
<li>How to engage the right people, for the right project, with your statement of work</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Complete the form to watch the recording</strong></h3>

Level up your statement of work services procurement

<h2>As the modern workforce shifts and evolves, so does the way we manage current and future talent.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Work has been completely reinvented in the last 4-5 years and it&rsquo;s all because of the pace of digital and technological change.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Guidant Global is pleased to bring you the Future of Talent Management special report, published in The Times.</p>
<p>This exclusive report, featuring Guidant Global CEO Simon Blockley, along with expert contributors from the world of HR, tech and talent management, explores how today&rsquo;s organisations are evolving their approach to talent management, bringing to the surface the real potential of people, so the workforce can be the difference.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Key themes and features include:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Driving inclusion, purpose, fulfilment and autonomy in the workforce</li>
<li>Whether AI and algorithms hold the secret to hiring the perfect candidate</li>
<li>The qualities needed by business leaders as millennials rise up the ladder</li>
<li>HR tech and agility in talent acquisition</li>
<li>How traditional views of &ldquo;performance&rdquo; are impacting employee mental health</li>
<li>The inadequacies of &ldquo;cultural fit&rdquo; (with particular reference to black tech workers in Silicon Valley)</li>
<li>Infographic on the reasons why businesses must prioritise employee engagement in order to thrive</li>
</ul>

Raconteur Future of talent management

<h2><span class="TextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">Our recent survey</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">, carried out in partnership with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">Defence</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9"> Online,</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">asked respondents from across the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">Defen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">c</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9"> se</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">ctor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9"> for their input into what is affecting and influencing talent in the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">industry</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW157600884 BCX9">.&nbsp;</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW157600884 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}">&nbsp;</span></h2>
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READ THE REPORT: Delivering the Defence Workforce of the Future 

<h2>An in-depth look at how your business can drive greater agility, quality and return on investment from the procurement of services</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This report details the importance of services procurement in today&rsquo;s increasingly agile business environment, exploring how you can ensure you get the most value out of service providers.</p>
<p><strong>We&rsquo;ve identified 5 steps to improve your approach:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Step #1: Recognising service providers are key to success</li>
<li>Step #2: Understanding the need to bring service providers under stricter management and control</li>
<li>Step #3: Uncover the hidden cost of poor services: monitoring the quality of your hidden workforce</li>
<li>Step #4: Recognising services procurement is almost entirely dependent on people</li>
<li>Step #5: Lean on a trusted partner to help you unlock ROI from your invisible workforce</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Access your copy of the report by filling in the form opposite</strong></h3>

Services Procurement: How to boost ROI from your hidden workforce

<h2>The scarcity of talent in the UK has put recruitment top of the agenda for Aerospace and Defence organisations, media outlets and the government alike.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, what exactly is happening and what can you do about it?&nbsp;</p>
<p>In this report, Talent Scarcity Report 2022/23: State of the UK Aerospace &amp; Defence Labour Market we examine the impact talent scarcity is having on the sector and offer tips to find the right people and help keep them engaged through vetting processes to ultimately drive your business forward.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>The report covers:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A comprehensive overview of the state of the UK Aerospace and Defence talent market</li>
<li>Key insight and takeaways for workforce leaders and talent acquisition teams to consider</li>
<li>Expert tips on managing talent shortages in a sustainable way</li>
</ul>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
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Talent Scarcity Report 2022/23: State of the UK Aerospace & Defence Labour Market

<h2>This guide explains the what, why and how of direct sourcing.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Get your copy for a plain English introduction to direct sourcing, a talent acquisition solution that can help you hire at speed and scale - even when talent is scarce.</p>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Many workforce solutions involve a managed service provider (or MSP) skilfully curating and managing a supply chain of recruitment agencies, who then deliver the talent your business needs. Direct sourcing is different. With direct sourcing, there isn&rsquo;t an agency in sight.</p>
<p><strong>Get your copy to learn:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What direct sourcing is (and how it works)</li>
<li>The benefits of taking a direct sourcing approach</li>
<li>When to implement a direct sourcing strategy (and how to do it)</li>
<li>How we used direct sourcing to boost innovation at Heathrow Airport</li>
</ul>

The Beginner's Guide to Direct Sourcing

<h2>This guide will give you all the key elements that you need to know about Advanced Direct Sourcing.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>At a time when it is more challenging than ever to source the best quality talent and maintain a skilled and diverse workforce, Advanced Direct Sourcing could help overcome a majority of your key challenges.</p>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3><strong>Complete the form to get your copy of The Complete Guide to Advanced Direct Sourcing</strong></h3>
<p><strong>The guide covers:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What Advanced Direct Sourcing is, in 5 easy stages</li>
<li>How Advanced Direct Sourcing reduces costs and time-to-fill</li>
<li>How Advanced Direct Sourcing increases talent quality and candidate experiences</li>
<li>How Advanced Direct Sourcing unlocks the power of DE&amp;I</li>
<li>The best uses of Advanced Direct Sourcing</li>
<li>Advanced Direct Sourcing best practices</li>
<li>Overcoming common barriers to Direct Sourcing</li>
</ul>
<p><em>&ldquo;Positive indications from early adopters hint at gains in all dimensions, including candidate quality, process efficiency, program cost and hiring visibility.&rdquo;&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><strong>- Staffing Industry Analysts, Achieving Excellence in Direct Sourcing for the Contingent Workforce&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><em>&ldquo;Direct sourcing is primed to become a revolutionary means of tapping into highly skilled, on-demand talent in the face of global uncertainty and business disruption. As businesses strive to reduce hard recruitment costs and build an agile workforce, direct sourcing will quickly become a primary channel for organizations to facilitate deeper alignments between available talent and work that needs to be done.&rdquo;&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><strong>- Ardent Partners, The Direct Sourcing Toolkit&nbsp;</strong></p>
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The Complete Guide to Direct sourcing

<h2>Today&rsquo;s global remote work transition will impact businesses for decades to come.&nbsp;</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dealing with today&rsquo;s transformation is one thing. Preparing for what the world of work is going to look like post-pandemic is another exceptionally complex problem.</p>
<p>To help you ensure that you and your business have a well-rounded understanding of how to ride the waves of change and come out of this once-in-a-lifetime crisis better prepared for the future, we&rsquo;ve worked with our US strategic partner, The Mom Project, and called on Guidant Global experts to create our guide to &lsquo;The global remote work transition&rsquo;.</p>
<p><strong>In this guide, we address:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>How best to manage a remote workforce</li>
<li>How to drive greater productivity</li>
<li>How to enhance workplace analytics with flexibility insights</li>
<li>What the future might look like for workforces and workforce solutions&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>

The global remote working transition: the challenges of today could inspire tomorrow’s breakthroughs

<h2>What must businesses consider to accommodate and attract talent in the modern work environment?</h2>
<p>&nbsp;<br>This top-level report highlights that organisations need to prioritise the adoption of technology and data-driven policies and operations. While hiring teams have greater reach than ever before to fill skills gaps and vacancies, it points out there&rsquo;s still room for development.<br><strong>&nbsp;</strong><br><strong>Key features of the report include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Talent war: can the UK beat skills shortages?</li>
<li>Geography lessons: how to attract and manage remote workers</li>
<li>Why business needs to get serious about disability inclusion</li>
<li>Has hybrid working triggered a loneliness epidemic?</li>
</ul>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3><strong>Complete the form to get your free copy</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Featuring Guidant Global&rsquo;s COO </strong></p>
<p>Also included is the article &lsquo;Ride the recession with an agile strategy&rsquo; from Brian Salkowski Guidant&rsquo;s COO. When there&rsquo;s economic uncertainty, there&rsquo;s a need for heightened agility and a contingent workforce is part of the solution.</p>

The Global Talent Economy 2022 Special Report in Association with The Times

<h2>Meaning increases motivation drives productivity and enhances employee engagement. But what can a business do to make work meaningful for its people?</h2>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3>Download our guide to find out</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Today, people spend nearly one-third of their time at work. People&rsquo;s careers form one of the main focal points for bringing meaning and identity to their lives.</p>
<p>While work is significant for almost everyone who is economically active, a 2015 YouGov poll in the UK discovered that only 50% of people with a full-time job were entirely sure their role made any sort of meaningful contribution to the world.</p>
<p>Concerningly, 37% were certain that their job had no meaning at all. This is not a UK-specific problem. A similar study in the Netherlands by Schouten &amp; Nelissen found 40% of people felt their job had no societal value.</p>
<p>This leaves approximately 12 to 13 million working people in the UK, 48 to 52 million full-time workers in the US, and 91 to 98 million economically active adults in the EU believing their work makes no difference &mdash; with a substantial number suspecting this may well be the case.</p>
<p><strong>So what can businesses do to turn the tide? Download our guide to learn:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Why pay is no longer the principal motivator for workers</li>
<li>How meaning at work is psychologically tied to our childhood experiences</li>
<li>How more meaningful work improves overall business performance</li>
<li>What your business can do to increase meaning for your employees</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Download our guide by completing the form opposite.</strong></h3>

The human connection: why meaning is so important to work

<h2>This first guide in our series on MSP will give you the full picture of a first-generation MSP solution, so you can not only learn everything there is to know about MSP, but ultimately, make the best decision for you and your business.</h2>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3>Download our guide to learn:</h3>
<ul>
<li>What an MSP solution really means for your business</li>
<li>Why more businesses are embracing MSP</li>
<li>How the rise of temporary and contingent workers is changing the world of work</li>
<li>How to build a successful business case for MSP</li>
<li>How to successfully choose an MSP partner that aligns with your company culture</li>
</ul>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3><strong>Download our guide by completing the form opposite&nbsp;</strong></h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>We have entered a new age&nbsp;</strong><br>The rise of flexible talent is difficult to ignore for businesses across the globe. As a result of global skills shortages, digital disruption, economic uncertainty, and a desire for flexible work among new generations entering our workforce, temporary and contracted talent is no longer a supplement to a business&rsquo; fixed, permanent workforce. Instead, contingent workers have a stronger foothold within businesses, and in many cases, are driving real organisational change.</p>
<p>According to Deloitte&rsquo;s Global Human capital trends report:</p>
<ul>
<li>42% of 11,000 respondents reported their business was primarily made up of permanent employees</li>
<li>50% were using a significant number of contracted workers</li>
<li>23% were using a significant number of freelancers</li>
<li>13% of businesses using a significant amount of gig workers</li>
</ul>
<p>The rapid rise of flexible talent is massively beneficial to businesses. But this trend also adds complexity, especially as large organisations engage talent across multiple functions.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>The Rapid rise of the MSP market&nbsp;</strong><br>The rise of the contingent workforce has mirrored the maturity of the MSP market, with further growth expected as businesses become more flexible.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Globally, businesses from every sector &mdash; from retail to pharmaceuticals &mdash; are partnering with an MSP to manage their expanding contingent workforce. To remain competitive, engaging with an MSP should be a major discussion point for any organisation utilising contingent talent.</p>
<p>To find out more why an increasing number of businesses are opting to work with an MSP download our guide. &nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Delivering big benefits for businesses</strong><br>As with any key strategic investment, deciding whether to partner with a managed service provider should not be a decision taken lightly. For it to be worthwhile, it needs to provide a business with measurable impact.</p>
<p><strong>Considering an MSP?</strong></p>
<p>To find out whether an MSP solution is best for your business download our in-depth guide by filling in the form opposite.&nbsp;</p>

The MSP handbook – a guide for first-generation buyers

<h2>Workforce demand in the UK has been through immense ebbs and flows in recent years - a global pandemic, the great resignation and the post-lockdown hiring explosion.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Today, we are still combating skills shortages and talent scarcity, despite headlines of tech sector layoffs and economic uncertainty.</p>
<p>This report looks at what is happening today and what you can do about it - providing powerful insights and versatile strategies to combat ongoing talent scarcity in UK industries such as social care, defence, manufacturing, retail, aviation and more.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>The report uncovers solutions to help you find the talent you need, including:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Opening up new untapped talent pools</li>
<li>Use data and technology to lay out and support the allocation of organisational resources</li>
<li>Keep your audience in mind at all times</li>
<li>How can you help with skill development?</li>
<li>Broaden your horizons when looking for talent</li>
<li>And many, many more!</li>
</ul>
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What is the state of the UK labour market? The 2023 Talent Shortage Report

<h2>The law of supply and demand has a hand in most things around us. The workforce is no different. It is vital to achieving balance.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here is our look at talent shortages affecting us all in 2023.</p>
<p>In the report, we look at what exactly is happening and what you can do about it - providing powerful insights and versatile strategies to combat talent scarcity in industries such as consumer goods, finance, life sciences and pharmaceuticals and more in the US.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>The report uncovers solutions to help you find the talent you need, including:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Upgrade your diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to open new untapped talent pools</li>
<li>Use data and technology to lay out and support the allocation of organizational resources</li>
<li>Keep your audience in mind at all times</li>
<li>How can you help with skill development?</li>
<li>Broaden your horizons when looking for talent</li>
<li>And many, many more!</li>
</ul>
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What is the state of the US labor market? The 2023 Talent Shortage Report

<h3>With workforces becoming increasingly complex, how do you ensure that your contingent workforce solution provides you with the maximum value, ensures complete compliance and attracts the best contingent talent?&nbsp;</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Keeping tabs on the latest trends and asking the right questions is a good place to start.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Access our free guide to learn what&rsquo;s reshaping the workforce of today, and what your MSP should be offering.</p>
<p><strong>In our guide we cover:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What you should expect from every MSP solution</li>
<li>Which trends are reshaping the workforce of today</li>
<li>Why MSP solutions need to change to meet demand</li>
<li>How to turn your MSP into your USP</li>
</ul>
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Workforce solutions for the future of work: how to ensure your MSP is ready for the decade ahead

<h2>We’ve been recognized for our CWM, DE&amp;I &amp; direct sourcing capabilities</h2>

<h2>Insights to drive workforce performance</h2>

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<h3>Unlock your non-employee workforce’s full potential through a unique collaboration of recruitment industry leaders.</h3>

<h2>@Pace</h2><p>Rethink your non-employee workforce management.</p>

<h2>Delivering #ABetterway</h2><p>Our prime objective is to change the quick-fix, profit-first, impersonal approach that prevails in our industry. Put simply, we deliver #ABetterWay. In the new world of work, we need new solutions, motivational work practices, and leading technology. We anticipate what’s needed to help our clients achieve not just their program KPI’s but ultimately build better businesses.&nbsp;</p>

<h1>Workforce solutions #ABetterWay</h1><p>We provide global workforce management solutions that help companies find the best contingent and permanent talent. Our uniquely shaped solutions, people-centric approach, culture and collaboration with others truly sets us apart from others in our industry.</p>

<h3>Join #TeamGuidant</h3><p>People. Lead. Growth. Three simple words. That’s the secret to our people-centric approach.</p>

<h2>Find out more about Guidant Global</h2>

<h1>Making an ESG impact</h1><p>As part of Impellam a key area of our focus is our global ESG impact. Below are just a few of the initiatives we are delivering at Impellam to play our part in cultivating a better world.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Drive better workforce performance</h2><p>Book a discovery call with our workforce experts and find out the art of the possible. Filling in the form is the first step to better performance.</p>

<h2>We’ve been recognized for our CWM, ED&amp;I &amp; direct sourcing capabilities</h2>

<h2>Advanced direct sourcing insights</h2>

<h3>Benefit from employer brand-led, technology enabled talent communities managed by our expert recruiters.</h3>

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<h2>Unique in the market</h2><p>Our approach is not reliant on technology alone. It’s a holistic, integrated solution that includes talent marketing and talent delivery expertise - underpinned by the latest technology. We work in partnership with you to develop a bespoke direct sourcing strategy and build talent communities.</p>

<h2>We’ve been recognized for our CWM, MSP &amp; SAP capabilities</h2>

<h3>Rethink your non-employee workforce management</h3>

<h2>Unlock your non-employee workforce’s full potential through a unique collaboration of recruitment industry leaders.</h2><p>Introducing <strong>@Pace</strong> from Guidant Global and SAP Fieldglass.</p>

<h1>Recognized as leaders</h1><p>Awards, accreditations and outstanding analyst rankings - we’ve been recognized by many of the leading institutions and analysts in our industry.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>We’ve been recognized by the industry</h2>

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<h3>Access our brightest minds on a project basis.</h3>

<h2>Consulting &amp; Talent Advisory</h2><p>Access our brightest minds on a project basis.</p>

<h1>Making a difference is in our DNA</h1><p>We’ve actively taken the lead within the recruitment industry for diverse and inclusive workforce strategies. By actively working with our clients, suppliers and industry partners, we’re opening doors for people historically overlooked by the recruitment sector.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Our ED&amp;I partners</h2><p>We’ve been pioneering diverse workforce for years and along the way have built a network of credible and specialist partners we work with in the ED&amp;I space.</p>

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<h1>Global workforce solutions that put people first</h1><p>We champion #ABetterWay – a forward-thinking way of working; moving away from ‘recruitment by numbers’ and shifting the perspective to focus on people.</p>

<h2>Our solutions</h2><p>Agile. Digitally enabled. Scalable. Evolving with you. Our solutions are designed to help organizations achieve new levels of workforce quality, cost savings, compliance and efficiency.</p>

<h1>Integrated Workforce Solutions&nbsp;</h1><p>Guidant Global is proud to be part of Impellam, a connected group offering unparalleled workforce and STEM talent solutions expertise to provide your organization with mission-critical skillsets to future-proof your business. Our blended approach fuses extensive workforce solutions expertise, with access to deep communities of STEM talent.&nbsp;</p><p>As one of the largest workforce and STEM talent solutions companies in the world, we help clients to get the best possible ROI from nearly £4.5bn of workforce spend and 2,900 supplier relationships, across nearly 80 countries.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>

<h2>Impellam’s journey to Net Zero</h2><p>We've made a long-term commitment to our blended working policy, which encourages less impactful working behaviors – such as working from home and conducting meetings online.</p><p>We calculate our environmental impact across Scope 1, 2 and 3 (selected categories) for our UK operations. Our 2022 UK emissions were 894,249 kgCO2e (down from 969,569 kgCO2e in 2021). This is an average impact of 442 kgCO2e per £m revenue (down from 582 kgCO2e per £m in 2021).</p><p>We achieved carbon neutral certification for 2022 by offsetting our carbon emissions, as stated above, using the PAS2060 framework.</p><p>2022 was our first full financial year of purchasing 100% renewable electricity for our UK operations. In 2021-22, our supplier’s fuel mix was zero carbon and 100% renewable energy, made up of 82.5% wind, 9.3% solar and 8.2% hydro power.</p><p>Our head office has achieved accreditation to ISO 14001 in relation to its environment management systems.</p><h2>UNITY - Our inclusion council</h2><p>We want to create workspaces that reflect the diversity of our society. Where everyone – from any background – can be their authentic selves and do their best work. We are inclusive and welcoming for people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, disabilities, abilities, military statuses, socioeconomic statuses, ages and faiths.</p><p>We do this internally through UNITY, our equity, diversity and inclusion council, and externally by working with our clients, suppliers and ED&amp;I partners to design strategies to attract and engage under-represented groups and to remove barriers to recruitment.</p>

<h1>Our people are different&nbsp;</h1><p>Our people bring our #ABetterWay mission to life. We are a collective of like-minded, passionate, experienced and approachable individuals united by #ABetterWay. Many of our people have appearing on SIA’s famed lists covering ‘SIA 100 Europe and North America’, ‘Women In Staffing’, ‘40 under 40’ and ‘ED&amp;I influencers’.</p>

<h2>We’ve been recognized for our MSP capabilities</h2>

<h3>Optimise contingent workforce performance with an MSP solution built around you.</h3>

<h2>MSP solutions</h2><p>Optimise contingent workforce performance with an MSP solution built around you.</p>

<h3>RPO solutions giving you a direct pathway to the best quality permanent talent</h3>

<h2>RPO</h2><p>Giving you a direct pathway to the best quality permanent talent.</p>

<h3>Giving you a direct pathway to the best quality permanent talent.</h3>

<h2>RPO solutions</h2><p>Giving you a direct pathway to the best quality permanent talent.</p>

<h2>We’ve been recognized for our RPO, DE&amp;I &amp; direct sourcing capabilities</h2>

<h3>Enhance enterprise outcomes through optimized services procurement management.</h3>

<h2>Services Procurement (SOW)</h2><p>Enhance enterprise outcomes through optimized services procurement management.</p>

<h2>We’ve been recognized for our services procurement and SoW sourcing capabilities</h2>

<h1>Solutions to drive workforce performance</h1><p>Agile. Digitally enabled. Scalable. Evolving with you. Our solutions are created on the unique challenges of each client. Not the one-size-fits-all, quick-fix, impersonal approach that prevails in our industry.</p>

<h2>Solution benefits</h2><p>Not the one-size-fits-all, quick-fix, impersonal approach that prevails in our industry.</p>

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<h1>#ABetterWay for supplier relations</h1><p>MSPs often neglect suppliers. At Guidant Global, we do things differently. We partner. We collaborate. We nurture.</p>

<h1>Award winning SRM&nbsp;</h1><p>Our supplier and strategic partner relationships have helped us win APSCo’s coveted RPO/MSP of the Year Award four times – and three awards in consecutive years — the only RPO/MSP to ever achieve this!</p><p>We’re well-versed in assuming control of existing supply chains and preferred supplier lists, giving them the opportunity to supply within a Guidant MSP program. We then install governance that allows us to review performance so we can refine the supply chain to include only the very best suppliers.</p><p><br></p><h2>Using our INfluence. Driving inclusion through supplier diversity</h2><p>Our INfluence Supplier Diversity Program has a vital role to play in nurturing more minority suppliers into our supply chain. Working in a two-year partnership, Guidant Global provides selected diverse suppliers with multiple tools to help them achieve greater success and the platform to build mutually beneficial relationships with our clients to help inform and support their ED&amp;I goals.</p><p><br></p><h2>Suppliers driving candidate diversity</h2><p>We work with pre-selected suppliers to create a set of diversity metrics which both Guidant and the supplier commit to. For example – if the client is focusing on driving female representation in an area of their workforce, our suppliers agree that 3 out of 5 candidates submitted will be women.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Aligning suppliers to Impellam’s ED&amp;I UNITY program</h2><p>At Impellam we have UNITY – our internal ED&amp;I program. UNITY brings our people together to build communities, find allies across our regions, to raise awareness and champion change. Our BRG’s (business resource groups) align to each protected characteristic (and more, such as veterans). We align strategically suitable suppliers to each BRG area, based on the accreditations they hold and initiatives the supplier promotes.&nbsp;</p><p>This is designed to both extend the reach of our BRG’s but to also help clients find capable suppliers who can help drive specific areas of diverse talent into their workforces.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h2>Supporting growth</h2><p>Our Ascend program is designed to identify a small number of suppliers each year and forge a deeper partnership, resulting in growth and brand amplification for both Guidant and the supplier. We achieve this through access to a host of Guidant resources, alignment of shared values, shared intelligence and collaboration across our teams, especially with Sales.</p>

<h1>Become a supplier</h1><p>We only work with the very best recruitment suppliers. Like-minded partners that share our candidate-centric approach. If you would like to know more about becoming a Guidant Global supply partner, get in touch.</p>

<h2>Access best technology in the industry</h2>

<h2>The right technology partners. Configured to meet your unique needs.</h2><p>Our end-to-end technology approach covers identification and configuration to training, change management and ongoing support.</p>

<h2>Discover data &amp; analytics insights</h2>

<h1>Vision. A powerful, personalized data ecosystem.</h1><p>Vision is powerful. A dataset built from your own workforce data and that of thousands of global suppliers’ integral performance data, past and present.</p>