Your Edge in the Evolving Talent Economy
Your Edge in the Evolving Talent Economy
The Future of Hiring is Experience-Driven
Vendor Management Systems (VMS) brought structure and scale to enterprise hiring. They’re essential for coordinating vendors, maintaining compliance, and managing contingent workforce processes.
But the landscape has shifted.
Gartner’s 2025 Talent Outlook and Harvard Business Review’s Workforce Trends reveal the new imperatives of hiring today as an opportunity for shaping reputation and creating momentum for your team and mission with culture signals embedded in every interaction:
Deepen candidate engagement
Prioritize well-being and candidate experience as a competitive advantage
Enable skills-based and flexible hiring models
Flexible work models and modern expectations over credentials
Empower managers as culture carriers
Speed and agility: Move faster, with more clarity and empathy
AI-powered efficiency
The takeaway? Today’s talent expects more. And the most competitive companies deliver.
What is a VMS?
A Vendor Management System (VMS) is a platform used to manage the sourcing, compliance, and spend of staffing partners. It standardizes requisitions, controls vendor access, and ensures hiring process governance across large organizations. While efficient, these systems were never designed to deliver personalization, engagement, or speed — the elements top candidates now expect.
New Talent Realities Demand New Hiring Strategies
Trends
Hiring Opportunity
AI + Automation
Empower recruiters to focus on high-value activities — like engaging talent and aligning hiring teams.
Well-being & Engagement
Reflect your company culture through clear, thoughtful candidate interactions.
Gig + Flex Work
Design for modern work preferences — flexibility, autonomy, and project-based formats.
Skills-Based Hiring
Evaluate candidates based on capabilities and potential, not just credentials.
Elevate’s Approach: Build Agility. Create Clarity. Deliver Outcomes.
1. Accelerate Time-to-Hire
At Elevate Digital, we help clients modernize hiring without overhauling everything. We integrate human-first strategies into VMS-driven environments — unlocking the experience layer VMS can’t reach.
Here’s how we make enterprise hiring more competitive:
Define clear ownership and SLAs
Pre-schedule interviews for faster cycle times
Align hiring managers to candidate-ready workflows
Shift from reactive requisitions to proactive planning
2. Lead with Experience
Position the team, mission, and growth opportunity
Ensure consistent messaging across recruiters and hiring teams
Give candidates clarity, feedback, and purpose
3. Align to Skills and Flexibility
Tailor hiring models for remote, freelance, and project-based roles
Implement evaluation criteria based on impact, not background
Drive fit and agility through well-scoped talent engagements
From Strategy to Results: A Sabre Case Study
Sabre Hospitality needed to hire 100+ engineers quickly, but was constrained by slow internal processes. Elevate led first-round interviews, optimized intake, and accelerated hiring manager alignment.
Results:
400% reduction in hiring time
7-day average time from offer to start
Higher quality matches and team alignment
Hiring Has Evolved — Has Your Process?
Today’s top candidates move fast. They seek meaning, clarity, and connection. And they decide based on how a company shows up during hiring — not just what’s listed in the offer.
The organizations that attract the best talent in 2025 will be the ones that act like it today.
Let’s Build a Hiring Experience That Wins Talent
Elevate Digital helps enterprises blend the structure of their VMS with the power of human-first strategy. Let’s create a hiring process that supports your goals — and inspires the people who will help you reach them.