Independent Direct Sourcing Curation

Reduce hiring costs with brand-engaged talent pools

Navigating today’s unprecedented talent shortage requires innovative talent acquisition strategies and independent Direct Sourcing curation is proving to be a highly effective solution. As your independent Direct Sourcing Curation partner, we work alongside your existing MSP and VMS, leveraging your employer branding to build and engage a community of skilled contingent workers, optimising hiring speed and cost.

Our track record

$5 million +
$5 million +
savings through top-line rate card management.
Over $500k
Over $500k
cost saving on margin per annum.
Over 60%
Over 60%
of roles released were filled by Harvey Nash’s Independent Direct Sourcing Curation Team.
Enhanced onboarding
Enhanced onboarding
experience for contingent talent through our dedicated contractor care function.
Improved efficiency
Improved efficiency
and cost savings through outsourcing of contractor employment and payrolling to Harvey Nash.

How does Independent Direct Sourcing work?

As your independent Direct Sourcing Curation partner, our team operates under your brand, powering your company’s employer value proposition to attract contractors and temporary talent into specialised and segmented talent pools.

Through consistent communication, we effectively build a community of brand-engaged and readily available talent, allowing you to tap into this valuable resource when needed. New opportunities are released to them through the Customer Relationship Technology that integrates with your MSP and VMS.

Why Independent Direct Sourcing Curation? 

Independent from your MSP or VMS, our focus is firmly on delivering the best value and service to you as a client. Representing your brand, we improve candidate quality by using our 35+ years’ of resourcing expertise to build self-sustaining talent pools specific to the needs and requirements of your business.

Harvey Nash's Independent Direct Sourcing team augment the talent pools with additional contingent workers through multi-channel sourcing. Through this approach, we speed up time to hire while reducing overall agency spend.

Why choose Harvey Nash as your independent Direct Sourcing Curation Partner?

Cost savings
Cost savings
Typically, our Independent Direct Sourcing team achieves around 30% cost savings on referred candidates. Working to agreed reductions on not to exceed rates impacting top line costs driving enormous cost savings.
Talent pool creation
Talent pool creation
We have extensive experience of building talent pools of scarce skillsets to support current and future projects or in-demand skills, accessing multiple channels including employee and hiring manager networks.
Candidate experience
Candidate experience
Our curated talent community consists of pre-qualified contingent workers who are actively engages with your brand. Through consistent communication around your Employee Value Proposition, we enhance the candidate's experience.
Speed
Speed
Shortlist delivered within 48 hours.
Scalability
Scalability
Flexible solution that scales with your talent needs with oversight from local talent experts.
Extension to your team
Extension to your team
Dedicated, experienced client- branded team that works exclusively for your business.

"Harvey Nash has been a supplier for over 15 years, so they were a logical choice to launch our contingent direct sourcing programme. Their commitment to working closely with TalentNet, the technology platform, and Tapfin, our MSP, has enabled them to make significant inroads into the first year’s fulfilment target. We look forward to evolving the direct source proposition with our partners and for direct sourcing to become a fundamental pillar of our Workforce on Demand programme supply chain."

Andrew Roberts, Head of Service Delivery, bp

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