The Background:
Just a few years ago, direct sourcing was a niche strategy employed by a small percentage of enterprises that desired to harness the power of private talent pools. Today, direct sourcing is one of the hottest priorities in the world of talent and work, becoming a top-three priority within workforce management (alongside talent intelligence and workforce agility).
Direct sourcing is a key contributor to the overall success of extended workforce management, especially in the face of the monumental change that has occurred in the world of talent and work over the past 18 months. The impact of direct sourcing automation adds an additional layer of impact to the average direct sourcing initiative; these platforms assist companies in targeting the right candidates, ensuring that enterprise requirements are aligned with targeted skillsets, and, most importantly, supporting the overall adoption of direct sourcing processes and strategies across all functional realms. Too, referral management is a powerful weapon for businesses that desire to push additional candidates into the funnel. Some direct sourcing solutions today offer robust candidate referral functionality, which is also enabled and optimized within mobile applications, that can drive additional talent engagement without the organization spending more of its time or resources.
Enter WorkLLama.
Why They Were Selected:
Future of Work Exchange research finds that businesses that leverage direct sourcing automation significantly reduce time-to-fill rates, boost overall workforce cost savings, and enhance the relative quality of total talent. By curating talent into private talent pools (that are then segmented by geography, skillsets, etc.), hiring managers are enabled with unfettered access to top-tier candidates without recruitment or staffing supplier fees. However, while the “first phase” of direct sourcing (“Direct Sourcing 1.0”) continues to drive incredible value, today’s direct sourcing platforms offer more than the traditional processes associated with direct sourcing initiatives.
“Direct Sourcing 2.0” is the next generation of direct sourcing strategies and is fundamentally rooted in the linkage between key technological arenas, a renewed focus on the candidate experience, and a seamless connection between talent pools and the projects and roles that require specific expertise. Just as the market itself evolves in the wake of continued worker resignations, a greater emphasis on the candidate and hiring manager experience, and the need for deeper assessment and validation of skillsets, businesses must begin to build on their existing direct sourcing strategies and programs to effectively develop “Direct Sourcing 2.0” capabilities.
WorkLLama’s end-to-end workforce management platform reflects the greater innovation happening within the direct sourcing technology landscape, offering a vast array of functionality not only related to the continued enhancement of direct sourcing and its ultimate adoption within enterprises across the world, but also in the way that it promotes “Direct Sourcing 2.0” automation through candidate experience management, hiring manager experience automation, next-generation talent nurture capabilities, and offerings that speak directly to the direct sourcing revolution.
In Their Own Words:
WorkLLama is a talent community platform that helps companies leverage their brands to create powerful candidate, employee and client experiences to source, engage and retain top talent. Its technology makes it possible to foster meaningful, more human connections with talent, leading to exceptional and inspired branded talent communities that fuel business success. WorkLLama drives digital transformation through social referral management; seamless candidate engagement; Sofi, its AI conversational bot; integrated, omnichannel communication; on-demand staffing; and direct sourcing solutions.
WorkLLama’s vision is to give recruiters and employers the how (and why) of putting candidates first. We automate and optimize the hiring process to create time/space for real human connections to grow. We want to see employers, staffing firms + recruiting tech get serious about serving people’s needs with bolder, more meaningful human experiences. To put a bold underline under the HUMAN in human resources.
The Outlook:
Direct sourcing today means so much more than it did just a couple of years ago. Businesses must understand that there are various “layers” to direct sourcing (beyond talent curation and talent pooling) that require nimble and innovative technology (especially candidate referral management, talent nurture processes, candidate assessments, etc.). WorkLLama has demonstrated its powerful ability to transform workforce management through an agile convergence of adaptable direct sourcing technology and next-generation functionality, as well as its firm commitment to both the candidate and hiring manager experience.
WorkLLama’s innovative platform represents the next progressive wave of direct sourcing, in which “2.0” functionality, strategies, and capabilities push these programs and transform them into perhaps the most crucial workforce-oriented initiatives in the evolving world of work and talent.
