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Given the ongoing economic uncertainty, it’s important for employers to understand the latest trends impacting their talent strategies and react appropriately. The key to doing so is leveraging talent data. For more on this topic, Joost Heins, Vice President of Global Business Insights for Randstad, sits down with Peter Topler, Global Head of Intelligence Advisory, to discuss how accessing the right data can help businesses meet their talent acquisition needs.

  • The implications for companies that don’t use data in the right way (1:26)
  • How robust talent data can help to overcome the issues that can arise from economic uncertainty (4:30)
  • Why a having a clear talent strategy now can help avoid problems later on  (7:54)
  • Specific examples of how companies can leverage data to improve their talent strategies (11:38)

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about the author

Head of Intelligence Advisory, Talent Advisory. As Senior Vice President and Consulting Principal with Randstad Enterprise’s Talent Advisory practice, Péter brings 23 years of combined experience in global talent acquisition, including 14 years dedicated specifically to global solutions design. He has spent over a decade founding and scaling some of the market’s earliest talent intelligence teams, helping the world’s most recognized brands define their overarching talent frameworks, location optimizations, and competitor footprint strategies. Rather than relying on high-level data dumps, Péter conducts tailored "voice of business" sessions and strategic workshops to deeply uncover the root causes of an organization's specific friction points. As one of the original architects of Randstad Enterprise’s Global In-demand Skills research, he excels at placing a practical, consultative overlay on top of raw labor metrics—transforming complex, multi-market data into actionable, future-proof workforce strategy blueprints.

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