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HRx Radio – Executive Conversations

Guest: Jason Roberts, Global Head Of Technology And Analytics, Randstad Sourceright

Episode: 331

Air Date: July 12, 2019

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00:00:13 :24 – 00:00:27 :20

Good morning and welcome to HRExaminer’s Executive Conversations. I’m your host John Sumser. Today we’re going to speak with Jason Roberts who’s the global head of technology and analytics for Randstad Sourceright.

00:00:27 :20 – 00:00:29 :09

Jason how are you doing?

00:00:29 :12 – 00:00:30 :28

Well John. How are you?

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Great. Would you take a moment and introduce yourself to the audience, tell us how you got where you are?

00:00:39 :22 – 00:01:14 :07

Yes I will. So I’m Jason Roberts. I’m responsible for technology and analytics at Randstadt Sourceright. What that means is that for our customers that we do enterprise services for. So think of a recruitment process outsourcing or being the most service provider MSP for a customer. I provide the technology that that enables. So but that means that we roll out technology tweaks including bomb based A.I.

00:01:14 :07 – 00:01:27 :05

saucers and we’ve got. CRM of course and interview management tools and these scheduling tools and even visual interviewing things all that we do or to know to do customers around the world

00:01:28 :13 – 00:01:42 :27

So I think most people really understand that that’s the heart of the RPO business. Is this providing technical capability that you do. Do you think it’s a surprise to people.

00:01:43 :01 – 00:01:55 :25

You know I think it depends on the generation of Archaea so early Akio Way Back was about just looking and shifting your processes and giving to someone else they can do it cheaper than you can.

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And in the current generation a generation three or four of Akio that we’re on now people are looking for some value add that they didn’t have in the past so they want us to bring technologies and practices and things that that allow us to be more effective at saving time and money.

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But before when it was just strictly a cost play. Now companies are looking to torpedo those sort of efficiency play as well.

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They find that to focus them on getting their time to fill down a number that it’s important we have one of our huge enterprise customers they hire a lot of engineering and talk for development talent and they had a goal of getting there. Their average time to fill that need to 40 and 40 Days for engineering hires is pretty hard. I like the system basis. And so they they actually hired us to do that.

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They were their big focus was efficiency because they felt like the opportunity for those open seat with too high and they were driving different things. So they may need. We need technology to make that technology faster. It allows us to do things that feed as a local

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That’s interesting. I just thought you know maybe I’m just old fogey but I don’t really go instantaneously. Oh RPO that means that the feet go

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up by less than 2 percent runner status of the place. What. What else does the company do besides provide for you. So.

00:03:30 :18 – 00:04:04 :01

Yeah RPO. The first piece of their business and an enterprise services is actually a small percentage of what we do. We’re a large company with 25 billion ish dollars annually. And the primary focus those grandstand induction staffing so putting contract workers to work every day in North America. There’s 100000 people working for a given time. I’ve heard