What is Skills-First Hiring in the Age of AI?
Skills-first hiring creates a pathway through a workplace shaped by AI, connecting what people can do today with the capabilities employers will need tomorrow.
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Better Hiring Begins with Defining the Business Outcome
Better Hiring Begins with Defining the Business Outcome Start with what your organization needs to accomplish, then work backward to identify the capabilities required to achieve it. By Tirranny Nettles, Vice President of Client Delivery, YUPRO Placement The skills organizations need are changing faster than many of their hiring practices. According to the World Economic…
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Teams by Intent Ep 4: Michel Adams from Okta On Tech to Tackle Contingent Candidate Fraud
Teams by Intent Ep 4: Michel Adams from Okta on Tech to Tackle Contingent Candidate Fraud This episode of Teams by Intent features Michel Adams, Contingent Workforce Manager at Okta, about the growing challenge of candidate fraud and why contingent talent may represent one of the most overlooked areas of workforce risk. Michel explains how…
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Why So Many YUPRO Placement Apprentices Find Success
Why So Many YUPRO Placement Apprentices Find Success Ongoing professional development transforms potential into workplace performance, one hour at a time By Andre Brown, Lead Talent Success Manager, YUPRO Placement Over 94% of YUPRO Placement apprentices successfully complete their year-long assignments or transition into full-time employees. In today’s workforce, where organizations continue searching for effective…
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Building the Workforce Behind the AI Economy
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…
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Teams by Intent Ep 3: Workforce Leaders on AI, Talent, and Change
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…
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Teams by Intent Ep 2: Rethinking Talent – Lessons from the Great Teams Playbook
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…
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Teams by Intent Episode 1: Building Better Teams Through Intentional Workforce Design with Pratik Patel
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…
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YUPRO Placement Releases Great Teams Playbook Exploring the Future of Hiring, Leadership, and Workforce Strategy
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…
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Fair Chance Hiring as a Talent Strategy: How Checkr.org Is Building New Pathways to Work
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…
