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Category: Talent Strategy
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The Internal Talent Marketplace Is Maturing — And the Winners Are Redefining What ‘Marketplace’ Means
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Talent Strategy The internal talent marketplace — the platform that connects employees with projects, gigs, roles, and learning opportunities based on their skills rather than their job titles — has moved beyond the early adoption phase. In…
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The Quiet Revolution of Internal Talent Marketplaces: How Companies Are Matching Skills to Opportunities in Real Time
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Talent Strategy The internal talent marketplace is one of the most transformative — and least discussed — HR developments of 2026. Rather than filling open positions through external hiring or seniority-based promotions, companies are deploying AI-powered platforms…
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Internal Mobility Is the #1 Retention Lever in 2026 — But Most Companies Are Still Doing It Wrong
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Talent Strategy If there is one lever that HR leaders in 2026 agree on — across industries, company sizes, and geographic markets — it is this: internal mobility is the single most effective tool for retaining top…
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The Internal Mobility Mandate: Companies That Can’t Move Talent Internally Are Losing to Those That Can
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Talent Strategy Internal mobility has graduated from a nice-to-have retention program to a strategic imperative. The latest workforce data shows that companies with mature internal mobility programs fill 48% of open roles from within — double the…
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Skills-Based Hiring Goes Enterprise — Fortune 500 Case Studies
By January 2026, skills-based hiring has moved from a progressive HR experiment to an enterprise strategy. What began as a diversity and inclusion initiative — using skills instead of degrees to expand the candidate pool — has evolved into a comprehensive talent…
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The Rise of Skills-Based Hiring: 2026 Procurement Guide
By the end of 2025, approximately 74% of large U.S. employers had formally adopted at least one skills-based hiring practice — up from 44% in 2023 and 28% in 2021 — marking skills-based hiring’s transition from an HR trend to a structural…
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Internal Mobility in Early 2025: Why Internal Hiring Surpassed External in 42% of Large Companies
The internal hiring revolution had reached an inflection point in early 2025. After years of building talent marketplaces and internal job boards, companies were seeing a decisive shift: for the first time, 42% of organizations with more than 1,000 employees reported that…
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The Skills Gap in 2025: Why Companies Can’t Fill Open Roles and What They’re Doing About It
The skills gap had become the defining labor market challenge of early 2025. Despite high unemployment in some sectors and robust job creation in others, companies across industries reported an increasingly difficult time finding candidates with the right combination of skills. The…