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A 2027 workforce plan needs to look beyond next year’s headcount requests.AI is transforming workflows and shifting requ...
09/17/2026

A 2027 workforce plan needs to look beyond next year’s headcount requests.

AI is transforming workflows and shifting required skills. Finance teams now need stronger reasoning for backfill decisions. Some workforce gaps will require hiring new staff, while others might be addressed through skill development, internal mobility, flexible support, technology, or redesigning work processes.

This week’s Talent OnPoint! shares a practical guide for HR leaders planning for 2027.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3UVsv7d

09/16/2026

After years of progress, healthcare turnover is climbing again, and a lot of retention budgets are aimed at the wrong target.

Funded fixes are fast and visible, but the real reason people leave is often harder to spot.

Once you know where to look, the answer is more fixable than most leaders expect.

🔗 Stem the tide of healthcare turnover: https://bit.ly/4zHVyuP

📖 What's Driving Healthcare Employee Retention Issues? via Pierpoint International
⏱️ Time to Read: 4.6 minutes

Picture your bench of future leaders. Now picture how many can set a vision, hold a culture, steer change, and deliver w...
09/15/2026

Picture your bench of future leaders. Now picture how many can set a vision, hold a culture, steer change, and deliver without help. Fewer than you'd like, probably.

That's the trap of promoting your best specialist: individual brilliance and leadership run on different skills. Turning a single-lane specialist into a multi-disciplinary leader is work, and HR owns it.

Here are the four areas every leadership program should cover, and how HR builds leaders who operate well beyond their original specialty.

🔗 Read it on before you fill your next leadership gap from within: https://bit.ly/3UKMLIx

09/14/2026

Is the resume dead? By 2028, Gartner predicts one in four candidate profiles worldwide will be fake.

That’s right, one in every four candidate resumes will be too perfect to be true. Hiring needs to use evidence-based signals: demonstrated skill, real references, and people you already trust.

Did you watch our quick guide? Was anything missing, in your opinion?

AI skills are now the hardest hire on earth, and a lot of that difficulty is self-inflicted. Look at the average AI job ...
09/13/2026

AI skills are now the hardest hire on earth, and a lot of that difficulty is self-inflicted. Look at the average AI job posting. It asks for five years of experience in tools that have existed for two. It wants one person who can research, engineer, and ship, for one salary. Then it competes for that person against companies with ten times the budget.

The scarcity is real, but some of it is a spec problem. Here's what works:

✅ Break the all-in-one role into two hires you can realistically find, rather than one you can't.
✅ Prioritize strong engineers and problem-solvers with adjacent skills, then teach the AI-specific tools in-house.
✅ Drop the "5 years of experience" line for a field that's barely that old and screen for what the person can build now.
✅ Grow AI capability from the talent you already have while competitors keep bidding on the same résumés.

Waiting for the perfect pre-trained candidate could mean waiting forever. From what we’re seeing, the role gets filled by whoever is willing to develop the talent.

09/11/2026

Now we’re in September, it’s time to revisit your passive candidate lists. A message they may have immediately deleted in July could get a lot of attention in September.

Summer creates distance from work with vacations, slower weeks, and the mental space to think about what they want: Did this year go the way I wanted? Is my comp keeping up? Am I growing?

September is the time to act on the decisions made on the beach, and a well-timed message can make all the difference.

Many companies still go role by role instead of thinking seasonally! How much does timing factor into your talent acquisition plan?

Pharma hiring can look active while specialized searches still take months.Layoffs may increase candidate activity, but ...
09/10/2026

Pharma hiring can look active while specialized searches still take months.

Layoffs may increase candidate activity, but regulatory, clinical, CMC, AI, and scientific roles often require years of experience to build.

This week’s Talent OnPoint! looks at why certain pharma roles remain hard to fill and how TA teams can review requirements, market availability, and adjacent talent pools earlier.

📎 https://bit.ly/3UwmaPz

09/09/2026

AI learns bias from the data we feed it, then applies it faster than any human panel ever could.

That should worry any leader relying on it. A biased interviewer makes a handful of skewed calls a week. A biased algorithm makes thousands, consistently, and calls it efficiency. The candidates it passes over never surface, so the problem stays invisible until someone goes looking.

Is AI bias impacting your hiring? The answer sits in data most teams never audit.

🔗 See how to spot it and keep your hiring fair: https://bit.ly/4rkKL6h

📖 Is AI Bias Impacting Your Hiring? via Pierpoint International
⏱️ Time to Read: 6 minutes

What happens during a restaurant shift shapes hiring and retention. Kitchen staffing, schedule predictability, manager s...
09/08/2026

What happens during a restaurant shift shapes hiring and retention. Kitchen staffing, schedule predictability, manager support, pay visibility, and advancement paths all influence whether experienced restaurant workers stay.

This month’s Hiring Reality Report examines the restaurant roles employers struggle to fill and the role-level data that can help HR, talent acquisition, and operations leaders know where to focus first.

Read the August issue on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3VjEPhB

Today, we’re recognizing the people behind the work.Labor Day is the perfect opportunity to recognize the people whose w...
09/07/2026

Today, we’re recognizing the people behind the work.

Labor Day is the perfect opportunity to recognize the people whose work keeps businesses, communities, and industries moving.

We’re grateful for our team, our clients, our partners, and the people we have the opportunity to work with every day.

Wishing everyone a well-earned and restful Labor Day.

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