Is your current investment in talent acquisition positioning your company for long-term success? Companies that want to be successful must first understand the market conditions specific to their organization, understand their current hiring gaps and make an investment in creating an agile talent acquisition solution that aligns directly with business needs. The last step is creating a business case that can be shared with executives that will show the cost/benefit of investing in talent acquisition.
2. Your Presenters
Jenifer Kihm, PhD
Talent Acquisition Executive, Operant Consulting
Jenifer Kihm is an experienced leader with strong expertise in human capital
management. She has designed/re-engineered and implemented large and small talent
acquisition functions with positive business results. She approaches the process of
talent acquisition from a holistic perspective, beginning with good job design, and
moving through the candidate sourcing, screening, selection and onboarding phases
with proven methods. She incorporates key principles from the field of industrial
organizational psychology and lean process, making her unique in the industry.
Tim Oyer
VP RPO Solutions, Advanced RPO
Tim is an RPO veteran. For more than 20 years Tim has worked directly with clients to
diagnose their talent acquisition programs and create a variety of long-term solutions
to improve their talent acquisition strategies.
5. What Does the Labor Market Tell Us
Most prospective
employees are currently
employed
Our recruiting functions need
to have tools for finding
individuals with target skills
and experiences
Most hires will come from
direct pull strategies vs.
push strategies (i.e., direct
sourcing vs. posting)
6. What Does the Labor Market Tell Us (cont.)
Extracting talent from
other organizations will
push salaries upward
Employment brand matters
â Glassdoor & Indeed
Hiring more junior
individuals and developing
talent can be a competitive
advantage
16. Ways to Optimize
âą Have well developed job descriptions
âą Establish launch calls as business
discussions
âą Track candidate opt-out at every stage of the
hiring process ⌠share the info
âą Present candidates âliveâ and reduce reliance
on resumes alone
âą Educate hiring managers on their complete
role ⌠decision-maker AND ambassador
âą Establish the optimal requisition load per
recruiter and maintain it
18. Advice
Do not consider talent acquisition
to be a support function
Do not under spend (and donât over spend)
DONâT
DO
Expect full partnership between
managers and recruiters
Consider RPO
19. Lamees Abourahma
President
Office: 804.897.1310
Mobile: 804.638.4448
lamees@rpoassociation.org
Hiring is one of the most important things a company does âŒ
make a commitment to be great at it
Tim Oyer
Vice President
Office: 312.632.6160
Mobile: 419.672.9053
toyer@advancedrpo.com
Jenifer Kihm
Managing Director
Operant Consulting, LLC
Direct: 713.560.7780
jenifer.kihm@operant.net
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