
Your How-To For Creating Strategic Impact in Hiring
October 3, 2025
John Brazier

In the past months, we have seen an increased demand on Compensation and HR leaders from the wider business. From stronger support of career mobility practices to fair offers for new hires through to creating overall pay equity alignment and driving critical business outcomes, it's vital that leaders in this space get things right.
Now is the time for compensation practitioners to step up to create real business value, enabling their organization to compete in an increasingly disruptive and challenging global market.
The question is, do you build or buy?
In this guide from Salary.com and Lighthouse Research & Advisory, they discuss the critical drivers for compensation vendor selection, and how this has matured over the past two years. They have examined hundreds of organizations and dozens of interviews with executives that provide insights around the benefits of purpose-built tools to support the design and day-to-day operation of strategic compensation frameworks, to get ahead.