19 Insights from the 2019 Talent Acquisition Conference
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19 Insights from the 2019 Talent Acquisition Conference

November 25, 2019 | Brief

“Time spent on hiring is time well spent.”

Robert Half,
founder of the eponymous employment agency

Closing the Gap—A Focus on Your Future Workforce

No one needs to tell human resources professionals that the workforce is in transition. Among the many and far-reaching challenges are labor and skill shortages; multiple generations working side by side with different strengths and motivations; an expanding contingent labor pool; an influx of immigrants, some of whom are very well educated but lack the necessary language skills of their host country; the quest to be inclusive and diversified; and the need to incorporate ever-changing technology, such as artificial intelligence. With those factors in mind, your company’s recruitment tools and personnel must not only be thorough but agile so that you outshine competitors and attract the best candidates from a richly diverse talent pool.

When 108 practitioners and experts met to discuss talent acquisition, we took notes. Here are the highlights:

Transformations in recruiting: The process of zeroing in on the right talent for the right job has led to streamlining to make the process simpler, faster, and more specialized

  1. A military branch’s transition from a legacy recruiting model of using one person to oversee the process end to end for a recruit to employing three different individuals with specialties at each stage of recruitment may, perhaps, serve as a model for your company. According to one of its recruiting officers, the organization now uses a talent scout for sales and sourcing; an assessor, who introduces the applicant to the Military Entrance Training Program and military basics; and an onboarder, who prepares a future sailor mentally and physically for basic training. This system also serves the recruiters well, too, by allowing them to develop specialties, advance quicker, and with those advancements, earn more money.
  2. Another system

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