IQNavigator, an independent provider of non-employee workforce management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Elevate, a UK-based direct sourcing platform with innovative technology that helps clients source, hire and manage their contractor workforce.

Through the alliance, joint customers will be able to leverage the strengths of IQNavigator’s vendor management system (VMS), along with Elevate’s smart candidate management technology.

According to a recent report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), 60% of organisations that had vacancies experienced recruitment difficulties in the last year, and two-thirds reported they had noticed an increase in the number of unsuitable applicants. 

These issues are forcing recruiters to turn to technology to help reshape their recruitment efforts by adopting improved candidate and job matching abilities. This growing reliance on smart technology comes at a time when talent acquisition leaders are being asked to do more with less. In addition to addressing the widening gap between hiring volumes and budgets, they must also ensure compliance with the latest labour regulations recently introduced in the EU.

Joe Juliano, President and CEO of IQNavigator, commented: “Nurturing and maintaining a market-ready contractor workforce is a critical concern for corporate recruiters. With growing demand for new skills and more competition than ever for talent, reliance on non-employee labour is expected to climb significantly from current estimates of 25% to 30% of the workforce. Our alliance with Elevate lets our customers leverage the latest smart candidate matching technology to identify and directly secure contractor talent at lower cost and with faster results than current approaches.”

Dan Collier, Elevate CEO, explained: “While most corporate recruiters have a proven process and strategy for engaging permanent labour, they often rely on a variety of methods to contract non-employee labour; job boards, social media sites, career portals, warehoused talent, and external agencies. This approach is time consuming, expensive, and results in a lot of guesswork. By partnering with IQNavigator, we are streamlining and enhancing the process, providing recruiters with direct access to uniquely qualified talent, eliminating the guesswork, mitigating co-employment risk and filling vacancies faster.”