by Arianna Brent | Mar 15, 2023 | Blog
In today’s ever-changing job market, businesses are always looking for ways to improve their hiring process and attract top talent. Managed direct sourcing, or MDS, is an increasingly popular solution for companies looking to streamline their contingent labor...
by Arianna Brent | Mar 8, 2023 | Blog
We’ve all heard several different terms in the contingent labor industry lately, such as direct sourcing, talent curation, AI, and talent communities. Because direct sourcing is still fairly new, there is a lot of confusion around what these things are and what they...
by ICON Consultants | Sep 24, 2021 | Blog
AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR COMPLIANCE UPDATE YOU SHOULD KNOW Background Grubhub Misclassification Case On September 20, 2021, the 9th Circuit, led by a 3-judge panel (1 appointed by a Republican U.S. President, and other 2 appointed by a Democrat), issued an important...
by ICON Consultants | Mar 4, 2021 | Blog
PICKING THE RIGHT DIRECT SOURCING KPIS: 5 TO COUNT ON In our last post, we discussed direct sourcing and how to control the candidate journey. In this week’s post, we will discuss direct sourcing and how to track its effectiveness, along with the entire recruitment...
by ICON Consultants | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog
High-quality candidates are the golden goose of talent acquisition. Sourcing a high-quality candidate takes a lot of time and effort. Gone are the days when a staff augmentation company receives the job description from a client, places an ad on a job search engine,...
by ICON Consultants | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog
September 14, 2020 Here we go again. California’s new independent contractor law, Assembly Bill 5 (also called “AB5” for short) went into effect on January 1, 2020. It caused a national uproar. Critics called AB5 arbitrary, short-sighted, politically motivated,...
