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MSP Splashing in the Talent Pool Learning to play smart on a global level. By Elliot Clark Is it getting harder or easier to hire great talent? Are generational shifts leading to degradation in quality of the future? Are the educational infrastructures of developed and emerging countries failing to produce the necessary skill level in graduates? Depending on whom you talk to or your own opinions, the answer differs. Or for some, they simply don't care; they are concerned with building their workforce, and such larger global issues play outside their office doors. But most savvy HR executives do care. They recognise that the market is changing and that the global recession in the Americas and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) seems to have permanently altered the landscape and composition of the competitive workforce. Managing a corporate or organisational HR effort to ensure the best workforce is both a quarterly struggle and a long-term planning exercise. In order to meet the planning needs of a business, one must first understand its own strategic direction. According to Jennifer Beck, CEO of North America for Impellam Group, the parent company of Guidant Group, a leading provider of managed services programs (MSP) for contingent labour and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), some organisations still SPRING 2012 | www.hroglobal.com [23]