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May 2012	Modern Outsourcing Strategies Meet the Need for a More Agile Workforce - 626.0 KB
	This new Insight paper details top recommendations for improving outsourcing strategies, including phased approaches and how global reach combined with local expertise is essential for customizing outsourcing solutions per employer.
Apr 2012	How to Unleash Latin America's Greatest Resource: Talentism is the New Capitalism - 225.5 KB
	As with the mythic and elusive El Dorado, Latin America's natural wealth, its human potential, needs to be discovered and unleashed to unlock the region's riches. In Latin America, companies will need to work hand-in-hand with governments and the education sector to develop in-country reserves of the new "wealth" (talent), particularly among the young, to produce a generation of job-ready talent, equipped with the skills employers need to maximize growth.
Apr 2012	Wanted: Energized, Career-Driven Youth - 1.1 MB
	Young workers are increasingly alienated from work opportunities in the global economy. This lost generation is tomorrow's workforce and companies worldwide must aggregate the right tools, mindsets and job training alliances to ensure that young and promising talent will succeed over the long-term in an increasingly complex economy.
Mar 2012	MEOS Q2 2012 Download PDF - 2.3 MB  »  View all languages
	This forward-looking survey asked employers in 41 countries and territories about their hiring activities the 2nd Quarter 2012. One of the most trusted indices for employment.
Jan 2012	How to Navigate the Human Age Download PDF - 1.9 MB
	For the first time in ManpowerGroup's history, we have published our annual analysis of the Future Forces converging to perpetuate the Human Age in a series of thought leadership insight papers entitled: How to Navigate the Human Age. This series includes brand-specific insight papers exploring the implications of the Future Forces through the lens of each ManpowerGroup brand and ManpowerGroup Solutions offering, highlighting the relevant challenges facing clients and presenting ManpowerGroup's innovative workforce solutions.
Jan 2012	Manpower: Increasing Demand for Better Skills Assessment and Match for Better Results Download PDF - 2.3 MB
	At a time when talent is increasingly scarce, and organizations increasingly lean, employers must have the right talent in the right place at the right time to win.
Jan 2012	Experis: Harnessing the Rising Power of Technical Professions Download PDF - 1.9 MB
	The world has entered an era of profound and perpetual change; the Human Age. A new age requires a new way of doing business, with new strategies and new demands for skills. As the IT, finance and engineering sectors transform and continue to lack skilled candidates, there is a growing need for these mission-critical skills and for organizations to unleash the potential of workforces, creating flexible work models that accelerate business success.
Jan 2012	Right Management: Leadership Mindset and Techniques That Drive Success Download PDF - 2.0 MB
	Right Management can help organizations navigate Human Age complexities to unleash the full human potential within their workforce, advising how to leverage new technologies and develop innovative people practices and structure flexible work models.
Jan 2012	ManpowerGroup Solutions: Innovative Workforce Solutions Are Key to Companies' Success Download PDF - 1.9 MB
	Having the right talent in the right place at the right time is crucial. ManpowerGroup Solutions leverages ManpowerGroup's unrivalled global reach and local expertise to enable organizations to do this; designing and delivering outcome-based, one-size-fits-one talent solutions that help organizations achieve better business results.
Jan 2012	Borderless Talent Solutions: Leveraging The Growing Borderless Workforce Download PDF - 2.4 MB
	Employers who take a sophisticated approach to managing their talent supply and demand challenges by including a talent mobility strategy in their overall plan to combat skills shortages will position themselves to win the escalating war for talents.
Jan 2012	Managed Service Provider: Optimizing Workforce Management for Business Results Download PDF - 1.9 MB
	In the Human Age, where organizations need to react quickly to a fast-paced, unpredictable marketplace, getting the right talent swiftly and efficiently is a top priority. The demand for flexibility is increasing the size and scale of the global contingent workforce, but managing a contingent workforce can be a time-consuming and costly process. Companies can overcome this complexity by partnering with a Managed Service Provider (MSP), which allows organizations to respond more quickly to business opportunities with greater agility, freeing scarce internal resource to concentrate on business-critical initiatives.
Jan 2012	Recruitment Process Outsourcing: Empowering Corporate Talent Managers with Recruitment Process Outsourcing Download PDF - 1.9 MB
	ManpowerGroup Solutions' Recruitment Process Outsourcing, which was cited as the Global RPO Leader in Everest Research Group's January 2011 RPO report, leverages ManpowerGroup's global reach and deep local understanding in 80 countries to create flexible innovative solutions for managing single and / or multi-country talent acquisition.
Jan 2012	Strategic Workforce Consulting: Aligning Workforce Strategy to Achieve Business Strategy Download PDF - 1.9 MB
	ManpowerGroup Solutions' Strategic Workforce Consulting offering leverages ManpowerGroup's more than sixty years of experience in providing innovative workforce solutions, in-depth understanding of global macro trends and local knowledge to help organizations connect workforce strategy to business strategy.

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