AI is reshaping hiring. Make it inclusive.

Workday Recruiting is a powerful platform, but the real impact comes when it’s configured and adopted effectively. Our e-book, 5 Ways to Get More Out of Workday Recruiting, is designed for TA leaders, HR operations, system admins, and HRIT professionals looking to maximize ROI from their Workday investment.

Learn how to streamline requisitions, personalize dashboards, automate workflows, and align hiring processes to achieve faster time-to-fill, stronger recruiter capacity, and an improved candidate experience.

Download now and turn Workday Recruiting into a hiring superpower.

Why talent acquisition leaders need a new approach

In today’s cost-conscious and rapidly evolving market, talent acquisition (TA) leaders face unprecedented challenges. Shrinking budgets, shifting workforce demands, and growing pressure to deliver results mean that traditional recruitment models are no longer enough. Organizations need smarter, more agile strategies to stay competitive and meet hiring goals.

This eBook explores how modern TA strategies can help businesses attract top talent while optimizing costs.

Key takeaways

  • Understand talent challenges in a cost-conscious market
    Learn what’s driving change in the hiring landscape and how it impacts your recruitment strategy.
  • Unlock modern talent acquisition and how to spend smarter
    Discover new ways to align your hiring efforts with business goals while keeping costs under control.
  • See how next generation TA plays a role and improves cost
    Explore innovative tools and techniques that help you do more with less—without compromising on quality.
  • Discover cost-savings benefits for key stakeholders
    Understand how smarter TA strategies can deliver measurable value across HR, finance, and leadership teams.

Download the eBook now to learn how to attract great talent, reduce costs, and build a more resilient hiring strategy.

Discover how trust, communication, and cultural context influence satisfaction scores, and why recruiter relationships matter more than process. Explore sentiment insights that help you build stronger candidate and hiring manager experiences.

Candidate and Hiring Manager Satisfaction Is About More Than the Outcome, It Is About the Experience​

Behind every hire is a human interaction. While satisfaction scores suggest most people are happy, the comments tell a different story. Even successful candidates often express frustration and hiring managers feel let down by misaligned expectations and poor communication.

This report explores the gap between what people score and what they actually say. It uncovers the hidden drivers of satisfaction across the hiring journey. It is a reminder that relationships, not just processes, shape how your brand is perceived and how your hiring function is evaluated.

Inside the report:

  • 87% of successful candidates give a high satisfaction score, but only 66% leave positive comments
  • 49% of unsuccessful candidates report a positive experience, but 35% leave negative feedback
  • Cultural norms and question phrasing can distort global benchmarks and impact your data
  • A 12-point gap between overall CSAT scores and comment sentiment reveals critical blind spots

Why it matters:

CSAT metrics are often used as a measure of success, but relying on scores alone misses the full picture. If organizations want to strengthen their employer brand and improve hiring outcomes, they need to understand the emotional signals behind the numbers.

This report gives you the insight to decode feedback, improve recruiter relationships, and build a more human and more effective recruitment experience.

Strategic Hiring: Reducing Offer Declines and Drop-OutsPinpoint where drop-outs are most likely to occur and turn insight into action with data-driven strategies that strengthen offer acceptance and candidate retention.

Talent acquisition doesn’t end when the candidate says ‘yes’.

Hiring doesn’t end at offer acceptance. In today’s competitive market, candidates continue weighing options right up to day one, leading to costly offer declines and late-stage fallout.

By analyzing drop-out patterns across job families, regions, and seniority levels, companies can move from reactive to proactive, targeting interventions where they’ll have the greatest impact.

This report breaks down where and why candidates are walking away after accepting, and what employers can do to stop it.

Inside the report:

  • 15% increase in time-to-hire when offers are declined
  • 72% of Manufacturing dropouts accepted more competitive offers
  • 30% of internal dropouts driven by poor process
  • Decline risk highest in Sales, R&D, and Project Management
    Regional conversion rates forecast to fall in the Americas and EMEA

Why it matters:

Offer-to-starter fallout undermines talent strategy, hiring efficiency, and business momentum. This playbook shows how organizations can use data to pinpoint risks, refine hiring practices, and strengthen post-offer engagement.

Everyone’s talking about skills-based organizations—but turning that vision into reality is the real challenge.

By prioritizing skills over titles and degrees, companies are improving quality of hire, unlocking internal mobility, and driving measurable business impact.

This paper explores how five global organizations made the shift—from concept to results.

Inside the paper

  • 1300% increase in candidate traffic by removing degree requirements
  • 57% faster time-to-hire through simplified job profiles
  • 714% larger talent pools by hiring across industries
  • 85% of roles filled internally through reskilling
  • 27% boost in skills data adoption with the right tech and change strategy

These aren’t just metrics. They’re proof that skills-first hiring works.

Why it matters

  • The future of work is already here—and it’s built on skills.
  • See how forward-thinking companies are reimagining hiring and workforce strategies with impact that goes beyond HR.

Download the whitepaper today.

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Discover how forward-thinking TA and HR leaders are measuring the real impact of AI in recruitment. This report dives deep into both the tangible and intangible returns of AI-driven talent acquisition tools—helping you make smarter investments and drive better outcomes.

What you’ll learn:

• Quantifying AI’s Impact
Understand how to evaluate both hard ROI—like cost savings, faster time-to-hire, and recruiter efficiency—and soft ROI, including improved candidate experience, stronger employer branding, and more inclusive hiring practices.

• Total Cost of Ownership
Go beyond software fees. Learn how to account for training, platform transitions, and short-term productivity shifts when calculating your AI investment.

• Maximizing Your Returns
Get actionable strategies to boost ROI – how to set success metrics, invest in the change and find the balance between automation and human impact.

Discover what top employers are doing differently to attract, hire and retain the next generation of talent.

Early careers hiring is more than just filling roles—it’s a powerful driver of future-ready workforces, diversity, innovation, and employer brand. But in an ultra-competitive market, standing out and engaging Gen Z and Gen Alpha talent takes more than a standard hiring process.

In this whitepaper, you’ll learn how leading global companies have transformed their Early Careers hiring with AMS—from reducing time-to-hire and boosting candidate engagement to cutting costs and increasing diversity.

✅ Proven strategies from global employers
✅ Real-world results: higher diversity, lower costs, faster hires
✅ Practical solutions to boost your employer brand and retention

Get inspired. Get actionable insights. Get ahead.

👉 Download the whitepaper now.

What’s ahead in TA? The next era of RPO

Discover how RPO 5.0 revolutionizes recruitment process outsourcing with our free whitepaper. Learn how to:

  • Transform your talent acquisition process with AI-powered technology
  • Orchestrate a seamless candidate experience from start to finish
  • Optimize your recruitment strategy for a rapidly changing talent landscape

Recognized as a Leader in RPO

AMS has been named a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group’s Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Services PEAK Matrix Assessment 2025. This recognition validates our continued strategic leadership and technology-driven growth in the RPO market.

About RPO 5.0

RPO 5.0 is the next generation of Recruitment Process Outsourcing. Our whitepaper explores the AGILE framework, a proven methodology that combines human expertise with advanced technology to deliver a best-in-class candidate experience.

Why Download This Whitepaper?

In today’s competitive business landscape, hiring the right leaders is more critical than ever. This comprehensive guide, authored by Claudia Wardle, Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead at AMS Executive Search, reveals:

  • What makes an effective leader? Uncover the surprising factors beyond technical skills, including the nuanced concept of “culture fit.”
  • The AMS 10-Step Methodology for hiring top talent. See how AMS Executive’s proven approach ensures alignment between leaders and your organization’s unique goals.
  • Real-world success stories. Gain insights from case studies that showcase AMS Executive’s strategic leadership appointments across industries like pharma and renewable energy

Who Should Read This?

This whitepaper is designed for senior talent professionals, HR leaders, executives, and business decision-makers looking to:

  • Elevate their leadership recruitment strategy.
  • Build high-performing teams that drive growth.
  • Create a culture that supports innovation and long-term success.

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The AI in Practice Playbook explores the hands-on applications of AI in hiring 

Everyone is talking about AI’s impact on hiring, but what does that actually look like in practice? This playbook cuts through the noise to deliver practical, actionable use cases to integrate into your talent acquisition process.

By utilizing AI along various TA touchpoints, your talent teams will innovate, evolve processes, and create a more engaging candidate experience—without losing the human touch.

Key Takeaways:
Gain an understanding of the latest AI use cases
From demand planning and requisition management to sourcing, screening and assessment, learn about use cases across the hiring process

How to determine the right AI use cases for your business
Discover the key questions to ask for whether you are ready to integrate AI into your hiring model

Achieving TA goals with AI use cases
See where your team stands in the AI talent journey and get the strategic recommendations you need to succeed.

Designed for HR leaders, talent acquisition professionals, and forward-thinking executives who want to stay ahead of the curve. Download now and transform your approach to talent acquisition.

Discover how AI can turn your hiring process from a cost center into a strategic advantage.