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NXTThing

The Hiring Intelligence and Insights Hub

Everything new from NXTThing in one place: blog posts, research, customer stories, podcast episodes, and where to find us next.

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Upcoming appearances

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RPOA Annual Conference

Chicago, IL

Reading the Signals: How to Lead RPO Organizations into the Future

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HR Tech

Las Vegas, NV

From Change to Transformation

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Gartner HR Symposium

Orlando, FL

Ignite Intelligence

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NXTThing Newsroom

Awards

NXTThing RPO Wins 2026 Lighthouse Tech Award for Best Frontline-Focused Talent Acquisition Solution

Awards

NXTThing RPO Wins Two Silver Medals in Brandon Hall Group’s Excellence in Technology Awards

Press Releases

NXTThing RPO Unveils Personegy, AI-Powered Platform to Transform High-Volume Hiring

Awards

NXTThing RPO Named a Star Performer and Major Contender in Everest Group’s 2025 RPO Services North America PEAK Matrix® Assessment

Awards

NXTThing RPO Named a Star Performer and Major Contender in Everest Group’s 2025 RPO Services Global PEAK Matrix® Assessment

Awards

Talentegy and Spectrum Win Brandon Hall Group Award for Best Advance in Recruitment Marketing Technology

Awards

Talentegy Wins Brandon Hall Group Award for Best Advance in Recruitment Marketing Technology

Awards

NXTThing RPO Wins Two Silvers in Brandon Hall Group’s Excellence in Technology Awards

Awards

Inc. 5000: Employ Named to Prestigious List for 2023

Awards

NXTThing RPO Named a Leader in the NelsonHall RPO & Total Talent 2023 NEAT Report

Awards

Press Release: NXTThing RPO Identified as a Leader in NelsonHall’s RPO & Total Talent 2023 NEAT Report

Awards

ICYMI: Follett Higher Education & NXTThing RPO Received an HRO Today Business Partnership Excellence Award

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2025 Recruiter Nation Report article image

October 23, 2025

2025 Recruiter Nation Report

The 2025 Recruiter Nation Report Is Here 1,200+ talent leaders just revealed what’s really happening inside recruiting today, and the findings show a market

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May 15, 2025

2025 Job Seeker Nation Report

Job Market Truths What’s Driving Candidates in 2025 Our parent company, Employ, surveyed over 1,500 job seekers to understand today’s talent landscape, what makes candidates

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January 3, 2025

Employ Recruiter Nation Report 2024

Empowering People-First Recruiting Dive into the latest trends and insights shaping the future of talent acquisition. This comprehensive report offers a deep dive into

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May 23, 2024

Experiences During the Job Search Process

What’s Motivating Workers to Look for New Jobs? Understanding what candidates go through in the job search process is important if employers want to

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May 14, 2024

Decoding the Aspirations of Job Seekers Today

What’s Motivating Workers to Move Jobs? Between 2022 and 2023, more than one in five workers (22%) had left a job. During the past

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2024 Employ Job Seeker Nation Report: Keeping Pace with the Perceptions of Modern Workers article image

May 6, 2024

2024 Employ Job Seeker Nation Report: Keeping Pace with the Perceptions of Modern Workers

2024 Employ Job Seeker Nation Report: Keeping Pace with the Perceptions of Modern Workers from the NXTThing Insights

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May 6, 2024

The Complexity of Job Seeker Realities

A Dynamic Labor Market The robust hiring environment continues to astonish experts and employers alike. More than 800,000 jobs were added in Q1 2024

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November 28, 2023

Take Your Recruiting to the NXT Level

With historically low unemployment rates and a highly competitive hiring environment, finding the right talent for your company is harder than ever. NXTThing RPO

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October 27, 2023

The Year Ahead: Priorities and Investments for 2024

Investment Outlook With all the headwinds recruiting teams have seen in recent years, how do talent acquisition professionals perceive the coming year and what

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October 13, 2023

The Latest Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Benchmarks

See How You Stack Up Getting a handle on key metrics and uncovering where bottlenecks exist is essential for improving hiring performance. Based on

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2023 Employ Recruiter Nation Report: Moving Forward in Uncertainty article image

October 10, 2023

2023 Employ Recruiter Nation Report: Moving Forward in Uncertainty

2023 Employ Recruiter Nation Report: Moving Forward in Uncertainty from the NXTThing Insights

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October 10, 2023

Top Challenges & Shifting Strategies in Talent Acquisition

Recruiting Challenges When it comes to the most significant challenges talent teams face today, there is a fairly even split among three primary

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Frequently asked questions

Straight answers to common questions.

What does an RPO do?

An RPO runs agreed parts of your recruiting process as a managed service. Depending on scope that can mean sourcing only, or the full path from workforce planning through to onboarding handover, delivered by a named team working in your systems.

What are the two types of RPO?

The usual split is enterprise RPO, which is an ongoing program covering continuous hiring, and project RPO, which covers a defined burst such as a new site or a seasonal ramp. Modular engagements, which take a single stage, sit between the two.

What is RPO technology?

RPO technology includes the tools used to support and improve recruiting delivery, such as sourcing, candidate engagement, screening, scheduling, automation, AI and analytics. It can integrate with an organization’s existing ATS and HR technology, adding capabilities and efficiency without necessarily requiring a full technology replacement.

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Tell us your hiring problem. We solve it with people, technology, or both.