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📊 Michigan Talent Trends: What Employers Need to Know in 2025 At Robert Half, we’re seeing firsthand how workforce dynamics are shifting across Michigan. The latest data reveals: Voluntary turnover surged to 16% in 2024 Top reasons for quitting: 🔹Hourly: personal issues (61%), better pay (53%) 🔹Salaried: better pay (56%), retirement (35%) 🔹Exempt: better pay (63%), retirement (39%) April 2025 snapshot: 🔹215K job openings 🔹208K hires 🔹157K separations (96K quits, 53K layoffs) With a quit rate of 2.1%, Michigan employers are facing real challenges in retention. At Robert Half, we’re helping organizations rethink their strategies—because attracting talent is only half the battle. 💬 What’s your team doing to stay competitive in this evolving market? #RobertHalf #MichiganJobs #TalentSolutions #EmployeeRetention #WorkforceTrends #RecruitingInsights

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NEW - Our US Healthcare Trends 2025 report is out! 🥳 This report explores the most dramatic shifts in public interest across key healthcare segments, alongside the rise of self-diagnosis and emerging linkages between systemic and chronic conditions. Get the insights here: https://lnkd.in/exP95wuG #healthcare #healthcareresearch #sociallistening #insights #mentalhealth #neurodivergence #autoimmunedisease #neurologicalconditions #dermatologicalconditions

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The C-Suite Paradox: Tech Reach vs. Human Touch Is your executive search leaning too hard on one pillar? In modern Executive RPO, success isn't "human vs. machine." It's about combining them for an unfair advantage in the talent market. #Technology is the Accelerator. It provides the speed, #dataanalytics, and global market mapping to find the ideal candidates that traditional networking misses. It’s about precision and scale. Human Intelligence is the Closer. Only experienced recruiters can assess cultural alignment, manage delicate peer-to-peer negotiations and provide the white-glove engagement that high-level hires demand. It’s about trust and nuance. The Takeaway: Tech finds them. Humans hire them. You need both. How is your executive search #strategy evolving? #ExecutiveSearch #Leadership #RPO #TalentAcquisition #Careers #Growth #recruiting #recruitment #jobs #employerbranding #digital #manufacturing #BFSI #fintech #management #humanresources #ArtificialIntelligence

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Buying AI is easy. Leading through the transition? Not so much. In our 2026 Talent Trends report, TA leaders say leadership gaps are slowing transformation. Learn why. https://bit.ly/4a6Uczo

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Buying AI is easy. Leading through the transition? Not so much. In our 2026 Talent Trends report, TA leaders say leadership gaps are slowing transformation. Learn why. https://bit.ly/4ib4Ff8

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“Hiring continues, but it's done more at a slower pace,” said Michael Steinitz executive director with talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half in an interview with Marketplace. “There's a lot of needs for people to come in and analyze that data and figure out what buckets they should go into."

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The Contingent Workforce Management (CWM) model has reached a critical turning point. 🚀Transactional hiring models are no longer fit for purpose. Excellence in CWM now demands a strategic, integrated approach that aligns contingent talent directly with enterprise priorities. What's the shift? Programs must combine: - Operational efficiency & modern technology - Worker-centric design - Strategic tools (direct sourcing, digital orchestration, Build-Operate-Transfer, total talent approaches) This modernization closes capability gaps and transforms contingent talent from a short-term cost into a long-term business lever. Download our exclusive paper with Everest Group to find out: - The critical challenges limiting the effectiveness of traditional CWM/MSP programs - A modern framework for closing program gaps and driving continuous improvement - A clear roadmap to achieving CWM excellence and advancing toward total talent management ➡️ Enterprises must build flexible, data-driven CWM programs. Providers must become true strategic partners and orchestrators. Learn how to modernize now to create a sustainable talent advantage: https://lnkd.in/eHSDtbZ3 #Hiring #Leadership #Recruitment #TalentAcquisition #CWM #ContingentWorkforce #TalentManagement #FutureOfWork #HRStrategy

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As we begin 2026, hiring and talent acquisition are entering a pivotal phase, shaped by persistent skills shortages, accelerating AI adoption, and continued pressure on organizations to build workforces more strategically in uncertain conditions. This is why the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA) has introduced its 2028 Vision: a clear roadmap to become the world’s most recognized authority on RPO foresight and innovation, and the trusted convener for the global RPO ecosystem. Organizations are increasingly relying on external recruiting partners not simply to fill roles, but to: * Access scarce and specialized talent * Navigate hiring volatility and regional labor shifts * Apply data and market intelligence to workforce planning * Adopt AI responsibly while preserving human judgment RPOA’s vision is designed for this moment - bringing together RPO providers, enterprise talent leaders, and technology partners to collaborate on practical, buyer-centric, and interoperable talent solutions. What stands out most to me is the association’s commitment to community over competition. As hiring models evolve, shared learning, credible research, and a neutral place to align on best practices will be essential. Looking ahead to 2028, RPOA aims to be recognized as the home of RPO and THE PLACE TO GO FOR RPO™. I’m proud to support this vision and the role RPOA will play in shaping what comes next for hiring and talent acquisition. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gwrbepiV #Hiring #TalentAcquisition #RPO #FutureOfWork #Leadership #AIinRecruiting #RPOA

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In this exclusive Talent Navigator webinar, discover how leading organizations are moving from “AI as a tool” to “AI as a true teammate.” Join Michael Hess, founder and executive director at The Blind Institute of Technology, and Glen Cathey, SVP, consulting principal, talent advisory and digital strategy at Randstad Enterprise, as they reveal how to redesign work, support people through transformation, and build organizations that thrive in an AI-shaped world. You’ll gain actionable insights on: ✅ Pixelating work for agility, learn why companies are deconstructing traditional roles into modular tasks and allocating them to the best-fit executor — AI, human or hybrid. ✅ Thriving in the “goo phase,” understand how to create psychologically safe environments that support reinvention and human adaptability. Growth through subtraction, find out why it's important to prune outdated processes, roles and assumptions to make space for innovation and co-evolution with AI. ✅ Keeping work human at the core, learn how to ensure AI-powered transformation enhances creativity, purpose and human potential. If you’re a talent or business leader navigating the AI era, this session will equip you to reimagine work, unlock potential and lead transformation — not by adding complexity, but by orchestrating a new way of working: https://lnkd.in/eJCT6d2e

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💡 The Power of Listening Forward We all know the value of market research and intelligence: competitive benchmarks, customer sentiment, industry shifts. But too often, organizations treat this as a rearview mirror, analysis of what has already happened. The real differentiator? Combining market intelligence with real-time internal listening networks, the conversations, signals, and insights flowing through your people every day. When connected, these create a living ecosystem of foresight, not just hindsight. As Roger Spitz writes in Disrupt with Impact: 👉 “Foresight is not about predicting the future, but about cultivating the capacity to adapt, to sense, and to respond dynamically to what is unfolding.” When external signals and internal voices are integrated, strategy stops being static. Leaders gain the ability to: • Detect weak signals before they become headlines • Align employees’ lived experiences with shifting market forces • Design strategies that are adaptive, not reactive In times of uncertainty, foresight is the bridge between information and transformation. It’s how organizations move beyond static plans toward dynamic strategic planning, plans that breathe, flex, and evolve with both markets and people. 🔮 How are you combining external research and internal listening in your organization’s foresight practice? #Foresight #OrganizationalStrategy #DynamicPlanning #OrganizationalResilience #ListeningNetwork #Employees #marketresearch #Insights #MarketIntelligence

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