Total Talent Acquisition: How Yahoo revolutionised their hiring strategy

Total Talent Acquisition: How Yahoo revolutionised their hiring strategy

Posted June 4, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of enterprise hiring, the topic of contingent workforce often flies under the radar. Traditionally, companies have treated permanent and contingent workforces as separate entities, but this approach can lead to missed opportunities and increased risks. The solution? Total Talent Acquisition (TTA).

Bridging the gap at Yahoo

At Yahoo, we recognised the importance of merging these two streams. More than five years ago, Talent Solutions was brought onboard to integrate permanent and contractor recruitment. Fast track to today, our successful Total Talent Acquisition solution offers an overarching Talent Acquisition (TA) strategy and consistent personnel, tools and processes that span all permanent, contingent (aka contractor and freelancer) and fixed-term hiring across the organisation.

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What are the benefits of combining your TA strategy across permanent and contingent workforces?

  • Cost Saving: By managing all contingent and permanent recruitment, we ensure visibility and control over recruitment-lead expenditure.
  • Candidate Care: We put the candidate experience at the heart of all recruitment activity and where TA can positively influence each interaction, ensuring a positive candidate journey.
  • Consistency: Of brand, of points of contact and of experience for all stakeholders. Plus, our team centrally handles the complexities of contractor management and payrolling.
  • Talent Pooling: We maintain talent pools that transcend outdated siloed approaches, ensuring mobility and access to top talent regardless of employment type.
  • Reduced Time to Fill: By combining both workforces within the TA function, we can influence hiring decisions and in turn enable quicker time-to-fill ratios.

The bottom line:

Embracing Total Talent Acquisition is a strategic move to keep your business competitive. Through integrating permanent and contingent workforce recruitment, you can achieve significant cost savings, enhance candidate care, ensure consistency, leverage broader talent pools, and reduce time-to-fill. At Yahoo, our experience has shown that a unified TA strategy is the key to unlocking benefits and driving organisation success.

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