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In just the past 20 years, the percentage of work allocated to contingent labor and contract talent has grown from six percent to more than 27 percent. Today, large organizations typically spend an average of about seven percent of overall company revenue on their contingent and contract workforce, often representing tens of millions of dollars.
The contingent and contract workforce is both big and important. Yet, in most organizations, it is loosely managed and all but ignored by HR. Do your hiring managers work directly with staffing vendors? Do pay rates for similar contractors fluctuate widely? is co-employment risk managed? Do you know how many contractors you have on staff at any given time? If you answered no to any of these questions, or if you're just curious to know how organizations are literally saving million of dollars, year after year, on their contract and contingent workforce, join this webcast and we'll explain.
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Presenters
Allan Schweyer is a Principal in the Washington DC based firm Center for Human Capital Innovation, which provide strategic consulting services to government and military clients. Prior to CHCI, he was President & Executive Director of the Human Capital Institute, the world's foremost Talent Management community. Trained as a labor market economist, Schweyer has contributed to the field for almost two decades. He is the author of two books, "Talent Management Systems" (Wiley&Sons, 2004) and "Talent Management Technologies (HCI Press 2009). He is an internationally respected analyst and speaker on the topic of transformational human capital management for individuals, organizations, regions and nations. In 2009 he was recognized as among the "100 Most Influential People in HR and Talent Management".Allan's contributions include the development of award-winning workforce management and information systems for government, international organizations and the private sector. Allan has many years experience as a senior researcher, analyst and consultant, servicing large private and public sector clients worldwide. Allan's articles and white papers appear in dozens of popular media and industry specific publications worldwide.
Jennifer has more than 15 years in Human Resources spanning recruitment and process reengineering to operations management in both the staffing agency and corporate setting.Leading the Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence practice for CVS Caremark, Jennifer is responsible for the talent delivery infrastructure including recruiting standards, branding and advertising strategy, and all related systems and tools for both direct and contingent workforce initiatives for the pharmacy benefit management division. The last five years Jennifer has passionately lead the enterprise expansion and evolution of the contingent workforce program accountable for supply chain management, technology administration and daily program management.Previously, Jennifer led a recruiting team for the wireless division of Nortel Networks and was a consultant supporting technology firms on developing recruiting practices. Her diverse background affords a unique perspective in balancing the dynamics of strategic partnerships with the challenges of tactical execution. Jennifer holds a BBA in Marketing from Stephen F. Austin State University.
Jeff Hebert is a Procurement Sourcing Consultant with MetLife responsible for the areas of contract labor and IT consulting. Hebert is responsible for the development and implementation of sourcing strategies that align the acquisition and delivery of people and services to the needs of the MetLife enterprise. He is currently leading an Operational Excellence initiative for improving the way MetLife obtains and manages approximately $75MM in US domestic IT and non-IT contract labor.As a MetLife Sourcing Consultant, Hebert leverages expertise gained over a twenty-five year business services career that began developing and implementing early outsourcing programs with Xerox and EDS. Hebert was eventually recruited into the technical services industry to develop and manage contract staffing managed services offerings for leading technical staffing companies, and he found a small consultancy providing outsourcing management guidance to contract labor clients and vendors.