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How to Find the Talent to Help Your Company Succeed

What Are Your Options?

•Contingency Staffing Firm •Recruitment Process Outsourcing •In House Staff

Each Has Its “+” and “–”

Contingency Staffing or Headhunter

RPO or Contract

Recruiter In House Staff

“+”Immediate results, “+”pay at 90+ days, “-” high cost per hire

“+”No overhead, “-”but higher

costs, “+”can turn the function on/off as needed

“+”Builds a pipeline, “+”sells the

company better than someone outside, “-”overhead costs

Overcoming Small Business Perception Challenges

The Talent Professionals Are the Judges Talented professionals want to know that your company has opportunities for their skill set, their career path and benefits that are different than other companies. This is engaging an entire community rather than keeping the talent acquisition a separate part of your business.

Update Weekly and make sure all employees have profiles on LinkedIn

Being a community member on Twitter to maintain your pipeline of IT folks

Having your key staff share their thoughts with the community

Meetups- topic oriented

very specific to skill set, and bring in your speakers.

How Do You Start this Journey? Understand what you provide a talented professional in opportunities, benefits. Communicating the mission, skills set and culture map for your customers

# 1 Source of Hire: Referrals Establish a referral program that is constantly communicated with your team. Celebrate the successes of the hires and program outreach. Your client facing managers are going to be your best recruiters. Everyone in your recruitment pipeline is an ambassador; make sure that they realize this rather than just pushing paper through the system. You might not hire someone, but they may refer someone to you, work for you later or at least spread the good word.

#2 Source of Hire: Job Boards

Utilizing job postings = Online Advertising A way to advertise to a key market by using the search terms that your key talent will be searching under. Use Resume Database Searches to build your pipelines that match with your contracts. Cultivate candidates with updates and news.

Incorporate Veteran Hiring into Your Community Engagement

Why Go to All of This Trouble?

Maintaining a Talent Pipeline Integrated Community Engagement Employment fraud

Thank you! For more information about supporting your Talent Acquisition - Give me a shout! Kathleen Smith CMO ClearedJobs.Net KSmith@ClearedJobs.Net