Subject to Talent

Developing a data-led workforce strategy requires an understanding of industry trends and how they affect every aspect of building and managing talent. On this episode of the Subject to Talent podcast, Brian Grogg, market analytics manager at AGS, discusses the largest influences and patterns that shaped the workforce in 2024 and what workforce leaders can expect in 2025, including technological advances such as AI, locations for nearshoring or offshoring and financial outlooks that affect global expansions.

As more organizations adopt a skills-based hiring model, the importance of breaking down and analyzing the skills needed to get work done increases. On this episode of the Subject to Talent podcast, Cat Halliwell, executive director for service excellence at AGS, shares her innovative approach to a task-first analysis to jobs and deployment for hiring and structuring how work gets done.

Human Cloud CEO Matthew Mottola joins the Subject to Talent podcast to share insights on how the future of work could be shaped by the freelance economy. Through advances in technology, and greater opportunities for working outside of a corporate space, more workers are choosing to freelance, instead of seeking full-time positions. Mottola speaks to how corporations can capitalize on this shift in the workforce and set themselves up for greater future success.

The workforce industry is quickly adapting to meet the needs of a fast-changing world of work. In this episode, AGS Global Head of Strategy Bruce Morton is a guest on the Recruiting Future podcast, hosted by Matt Alder, to share ways organizations can adjust their workforce strategies to stay competitive and thrive in the future. Morton discusses the role of skills-based hiring, AI and automation and engaging all types of workers – gig, FTE, contingent, contract, etc. – in order to get work done.

Audra Woods, AGS client executive for marketplace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in North America is joined by executive leadership coach Toby Quinton to examine the importance of cultivating psychological safety and a sense of belonging in the workplace to increase open discourse and creative solutions. This episode includes tips for both leaders and workers on how to better communicate, solve conflict, fail forward and ask for help, and how these actions can positively increase productivity.

Traversing the shifting life sciences labor market through the COVID comedown, increased competition and global expansion comes with unique challenges and specialized solutions. This episode examines the life sciences industry and ways for organizations to optimize and reach their goals. 

Guest host Donnell Campbell, the AGS global head of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), welcomes Dr. Caprice Hollins, co-founder of Cultures Connecting, to discuss how and why businesses should advance their DEI strategies and not pull back from making a true difference for their company and workers. They share insights on the impact that C-Suite buy-in has on the future of DEI and the importance of continuing work that moves the needle and develops diversity as a skillset.

As the shifting workforce industry moves towards a skills-based hiring model, it is imperative to deploy technology that supports the future way we will get work done. In this episode of the Subject to Talent podcast we revisit a previous recording with Executive Director of Global Technology Ian Blake in which he explains how the Intelligent Workforce Platform guides and shapes how businesses hire, manage and empower their workforces.

Today’s workforce market is shaped by the need for accurate and detailed data. Lightcast Vice President of Strategy, Skills and People Analytics Mark Hanson shares how data helps determine where, when and how to find talent. Data points for emerging markets, skills-based hiring and compensation rates are just the beginning for organizations to make the workforce decisions to reach their goals.

In a time when talent pools are shrinking, the market is growing more competitive and companies are seeking new avenues to getting work done, CareerCircle Managing Director Kim Sneeder is building an upskilling and reskilling network that puts more workers into the shifting workforce market. In this episode, Sneeder returns to share how CareerCircle has evolved from upskilling to job placement, as well as how companies can build a workforce that better reflects the communities they serve.