The GSMA chose Project People to provide Outsourced Recruitment Services in 2006 to underpin its global development operations across 33 countries worldwide. Today we work in partnership to spearhead Talent Acquisition and Management Best Practice, whilst sourcing the world's best telecom talent - talent who are vital to the setting of industry standards and to the innovation of the industry's future technologies.
Client Profile
The GSMA represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry. Spanning 219 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world's mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers, internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations.
The GSMA is focused on innovating, incubating and creating new opportunities for its membership, all with the end goal of driving the growth of the mobile communications industry.
Innovative Recruitment Outsourcing - Worldwide
In 2006, Project People was chosen by the GSMA to provide Outsourced Recruitment Services to source the world's best telecom talent who develop the standards and technologies vital to the future of the industry. We provide a fully integrated managed service programme to underpin the GSMA's Development Fund Operations across 33 countries worldwide, delivering both permanent and non-permanent resourcing. A programme that drives talent sourcing excellence and cost optimisation through exceptional workforce engagement - key deliverables include:
- Rapid deployment of talent orientated around a ‘just-in-time' model
- Global electronic desktop reporting, localised to hiring processes and service levels
- Transparent cost reporting with ROI benchmarking
- Pay rate management initiatives for non-permanent staff
- Comprehensive global contractor care programme
- Highly effective and efficient payment settlement system
- 100% recruitment process compliance
- Talent technology tool consulting
- Sub-supplier management
In support of the GSMA's commitment to connect the unconnected (to improve the social, economic and environmental well-being of the world's neediest people), whilst encouraging the development of sustainable mobile solutions, Project People has deployed contractors in:
- Rwanda UN Millennium Villages Project - Building a mobile network for remote villages
- Uganda - Extending the mobile network to refugee camps
- Haiti - Powering green energy for mobile infrastructure
- Kenya - Mobilising safety and security initiatives around Lake Victoria.
Together We Spearhead Leading-edge Thinking
We want the mobile industry to be viewed as the ‘Employer-of-Choice' for the world's best talent; and to achieve this we work in partnership with the GSMA to set the standard in talent acquisition and management best practice. Our commitment extends to sponsoring the Mobile World Congress Award - ‘Enabling Innovation through Human Capital & Talent Practices', as well as co-hosting the HR Leadership Roundtable each year; a forum that provides 30 of the mobile communication industry's leading senior executives with a platform to discuss the latest challenges in people strategy.
