Case Study: Powering A New Business Line Through Skills-First Technical Talent The Challenge A global leader in IT service with operations across 70 countries and two major service divisions was faced with the challenge of launching a new business line, one dedicated to supporting mission-critical infrastructure, cloud migration, analytics, and security. This launch required required…
Building the Workforce Behind the AI Economy Amazon is investing in one of the largest infrastructure expansions in modern history. YUPRO Placement is helping build the talent pipeline to support it. Riding on a wave of demand for data center infrastructure, Amazon announced $100 billion in capital expenditures in 2025. CEO Andy Jassy indicated that…
AI Innovation Starts with Curiosity — Not CredentialsWhen a Year Up graduate named Sam joined a major financial services firm as an IT intern, no one expected that his curiosity — not his job title — would lead to a breakthrough. During his two-hour daily commute, Sam carried a book everywhere he went: AI Engineering:…
Teams by Intent Ep 3: Workforce Leaders on AI, Talent, and Change What happens when workforce strategy becomes bigger than hiring? In Episode 3 of Teams by Intent, host James Krouse takes listeners inside the conversations happening at ProcureCon Contingent Staffing 2026, where workforce leaders from global organizations gathered to discuss the trends reshaping how…
Teams by Intent Ep 2: Rethinking Talent – Lessons from the Great Teams Playbook What if many of the hiring practices organizations rely on today are actually preventing them from finding their best talent? In Episode 2 of Teams by Intent, host James Krouse is joined by YUPRO Placement Chief Delivery Officer Katie Breault to…
Teams by Intent Episode 1: Building Better Teams Through Intentional Workforce Design with Pratik Patel What if the future of workforce strategy isn’t about finding more talent, but about finding talent in places most organizations overlook? In the inaugural episode of Teams by Intent, we sit down with procurement and workforce strategy leader Pratik Patel…
YUPRO Placement Releases Great Teams Playbook Exploring the Future of Hiring, Leadership, and Workforce Strategy New playbook captures insights from workforce, HR, procurement, and business leaders YUPRO Placement has released its new Great Teams Playbook, a workforce and leadership guide built from live discussions with executives and decision-makers from ProcureCon Contingent Staffing 2026. The playbook…
Case Study: Sustaining a Talent Pipeline Through Disruption The Challenge When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person internships, financial services companies faced a sudden and critical challenge: how to sustain their early-career talent pipelines when traditional pathways were frozen. A global wholesale and investment bank firm had long been committed to an internship program. The firm…
Fair Chance Hiring as a Talent Strategy: How Checkr.org Is Building New Pathways to Work For many employers, conversations around hiring often center on shortages: not enough candidates, not enough retention, not enough people with the right skills. For Checkr.org, the challenge looks different. The company sees a labor market where talent is often overlooked—not…
The Biggest Barrier to Apprenticeship Adoption isn’t Talent. It’s Friction. by Michelle Sims, CEO, YUPRO Placement What Employers Need to Make Apprenticeship Programs Work at Scale. Employers across industries are rethinking how they build talent pipelines. Pressures toreduce costs compete equally with pressures to complete important initiatives on time. At the same time, an aging…