Issue 6 2019

CORPORATE VISION / Issue 6 2019 53 Transforming the Recruitment Industry that breeds intrinsic motivation for our employees.” Bringing the interview to a close, Mat reflects on the techniques the team at Third Republic have to employ, to ensure that they stay ahead of emerging devel- opments, especially within an ever-changing industry. “We are obsessed with increas- ing our awareness of talent acquisition, the evolution it is going through, emerging trends and new innovations. It is our duty to our clients to do this, to keep learning and to continuous- ly improve our ability to source talent for them. This is one of the reasons why we invest consid- erable time and efforts into our thought leadership blogs such as our #TalentQA series; where we interview thought leaders from the talent acquisition industry on a weekly basis in order to facilitate learning. “Organising meet-ups which focus on learning and develop- ment is another technique we employ to stay ahead of the market; and the insights we get by talking to tech and other industry thought leaders is inval- uable when it comes to shaping our businesses and ensure a competitive edge.” Looking ahead to what the future holds for the firm, Mat signs off by revealing the exciting plan in store for the team at Third Republic, especially following their recent success of being selected in Corporate Vision’s Recruitment Elite 2018. “Overall, we are not driven by results, or how big we are going to be. The vision behind the business is to transform the way that companies go about hiring next generation skills to drive digital transformation. We want to build the agency of the future because we understand that the marketplace is changing, and that disruptive businesses need to be able to leverage the technologies that enable them to fill their critical roles. “To facilitate this, we created a hybrid model between an online hiring platform and contingen- cy capabilities. Our sourcing platform – Sourcechain - enables companies to engage with and hire directly from our private net- works of talent. Alongside this, we are launching a new service line, TalentPooling-as-a-Ser- vice (TPaaS) which will allow organisations to leverage our sourcing capabilities as an extra resourcing capacity dedicated to increasing the top of their talent funnel for large-scale, pro- ject-based hiring needs. “Moving forward, we are also ex- cited about opening up two new resourcing centres in Bolivia and Morocco whose primary focus is to get mobile phone numbers for our teams in London and New York. Modern sourcing is moving away from emails and towards mobiles, as networking and headhunting makes a return to talent acquisition and investing in these centres will enable our recruiters to focus on these mod- ern methods more effectively.” Name: Third Republic Address: 3rd floor, Avalon house, 57-63 Scrutton Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 4PF Web Address: www.thirdrepublic.com