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…
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…
Apprenticeships Have Evolved. Let’s Change How We Manage Them By Emily Schaffer Vice President, Strategic Alliances YUPRO Placement National Apprenticeship Week is an opportunity to celebrate the value of apprenticeships; it’s also an opportunity to highlight how a focus on apprenticeships has changed. For the first time this year Today, there are nearly 680,000 active…
From Incarceration to Instructor: How One Apprentice Is Paying It Forward During National Apprenticeship Week “Without YUPRO, I wouldn’t be here because they showed me how to believe in myself.” YUPRO Placement is celebrating National Apprenticeship Week by sharing the stories of current and former apprenticeships. Meet Valerie Boden. Her life-affirming journey reflects the power…
AI is no longer just a tool that supports hiring; it has become an intermediary. It is screening candidates before a human engages, while those same candidates are increasingly using AI to construct their applications. The result is a system in which AI is often interacting with AI, shaping decisions at a distance from the underlying reality of what a candidate can actually do.
In that environment, the central challenge is no longer how to move faster through a pipeline; it is how to ensure that what is being evaluated still reflects real capability.
In the News: Skills-First Hiring and the Future of the Talent Pipeline As organizations rethink how they recruit and develop talent, the concept of skills-first hiring is gaining attention as a practical way to strengthen the talent pipeline and open opportunities for overlooked candidates. In the Society for Human Resource Management article “Can Skills-First Hiring…
Skills-based hiring is only the first step. Intentional workforce design is what builds adaptable teams ready for AI and constant change.