Much of recruiting happens behind the scenes and out of sight of the C Suite. How can TA Leaders help communicate exactly how good their team really is?
Listen in on what our panelists have to say.
This event is part of the “Let’s Talk Recruiting” series where a panel of recruiting practitioners get together online and have a conversation on a variety of topics related to corporate recruiting.
Our Panelists…
Name & LinkedIn Profile | Group | Title | Company |
Brandon Diehm | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition?Tax & Audit | Heidrick & Struggles |
Frank Han | TA Leaders | Vice President, Head of Talent Acquisition | OpenGov Inc. |
Julie Kemp | Recruiting SFBA | Talent Acquisition | Mercari |
Kelsey Habich | TA Leaders | Chief People Officer | Mission Critical Solutions |
Melisa Medrano | Recruiting SFBA | Manager, Talent Acquisition | NGM Biopharmaceuticals |
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We asked our attendees, “What is one way to show the C Level at your company how good you are at your job?”
Here are their answers:
- Analytics
- Bring in great talent and build a world class org.
- Building a team from the ground up
- By tracking and sharing metrics. Most importantly how much money I saved the company.
- candidate experience feedback - and metrics over all
- charts and graphs - they only like colors and shapes in the c suite
- Check in with them - send them updates
- Come in your Intake mtg with data about the market, role, etc. pertaining to the open role at hand.
- Communication and Delivering Results
- Consistency and communication
- Data
- Data
- Data
- Data
- Data
- data analytics
- Data and metrics
- Data proving your hires time to fill etc
- Data. High performer/achievements: stats highest # ever recruited and hired by any recruiter in the company.
- Data. Use the data to show how you have affected the bottom line and helped the company meet their goals.
- Decks of New Hires - Quarterly Updates
- Deliver
- Deliver high quality talent. Also, make sure you implement initiatives that are important to the C suite.
- Deliver results, understand the business and be a strategic partner
- Demonstrate the magic... make sure they experience each: a thorough intake, strong candidate slate & show career growth of key
- Feedback from hiring managers and candidates
- Find great candidates
- Function as a business partner - know the role as well the hiring team
- Give the good candidates
- Have a seat at the table!
- Highlighting key hires, key metrics (time to hire, number of hires, D&I hires) and contrasting with other recruiting options.
- I review KPI’s such as Time to Hire and Retention through turnover reports.
- I track recruiter hires vs. the cost of filling the role with an outside agency - a "savings" metric.
- I'm interested to learn more about this topic.
- Interesting in hearing what TA leaders have to say about this topic
- keeping a candidate pipeline for their needs, constant communication, streamlines process,s ervice drive approach
- Know the business
- Manager, Talent Acquisition
- Managing Internal Executive Searches flawlessly...
- Meeting company goals; offering solutions, thinking outside of the box.
- metrics
- Metrics
- Organization and preparedness
- Provide metrics such as cost per hire
- Proving that the talent you are brining into the organization is elevating the business objectives.
- Remind them of how much money I have saved them by not having to utilize outside vendors.
- Reporting and analytics
- Reporting, but we realize there may be more needed
- Review KPI, time to fill ratios
- Score Cards
- Send them weekly recaps from the recruiting end to give them visibility.
- Show me the numbers and then ask hiring managers for the stories.
- Showcase the quality of talent we hire - how we have not had to use outside recruiters to find great talent.
- Showing the time to fill vs revenue gained
- Stats that matter to C Level
- Time to fill data? Compare to other company stats
- Track time-to-fill with data driven analytics
- Tracking and sharing metrics.
- Understand their business
- Understand their needs on a deeper level and be consultative throughout the process
- Understanding the business and meeting the hiring demand
- Understanding the business and what background a candidate can bring in that best aligns with the future strategy for the org.
- We use a predictive model.
Some of the attendees…
Name & LinkedIn Profile | Group | Title | Company |
Rose Nolen | Election Judge, HR Corporate Recruitment | ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions | |
Ryan Watson | Talent Acquisition Manager | Unknown | |
Stephanie Reese | Recruiting Atlanta | Senior Sales Recruiter | Apptio |
Dan Baker | Recruiting Atlanta | Senior Corporate Recruiter | Healthstat |
Lauren Gagnon | Recruiting Boston | Technical Recruiter/Talent Acquisition Partner | Veracode |
Stefanie Smith | Recruiting Boston | Recruiting Manager, Customer Solutions Group | New Relic |
Ana Marques | Recruiting Boston | Senior Recruiter | Walden Behavioral Care |
Andy Pittaluga | Recruiting Boston | Technical Recruiter | Bose Corporation |
Koli Donohue | Recruiting Chicago | Manager | Stillwater Architecture, LLC |
Katie Stevens | Recruiting Chicago | Talent Acquisition Leader | GE Healthcare |
Tina Ramirez | Recruiting Chicago | Senior Recruiter | R.J. O'Brien & Associates |
Jeanette Young | Recruiting Chicago | Director Talent Acquisition | EN Engineering |
Sarah Moore | Recruiting Chicago | Talent Acquisition Recruiter / Partner | NorthShore University HealthSystem |
Erin Laramie | Recruiting Chicago | Regional Talent Acquisition Manager | HMSHost |
Maria Smithson | Recruiting Chicago | Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist | Faithlife |
Carrie Bell | Recruiting Dallas | Manager, Talent Acquisition | Commercial Metals Company |
Rebecca Dappen | Recruiting Denver | Senior Manager, Executive Recruiting | Zillow |
John Przybylek | Recruiting Denver | Senior Technical Recruiter | CAI |
Delaina Silva | Recruiting Denver | Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant | SDL plc |
Julie Montgomery | Recruiting Houston | Technical Recruiter | Beyondsoft |
Lindsey Johnson | Recruiting Houston | Talent Acquisition Manager, WorldWide Operations | Amazon |
Susan Collins | Recruiting Houston | Director, Talent Acquisition - Stores & Employer Branding | Talbots |
Tiffany Reyna | Recruiting Houston | Talent Acquisition | Percepta |
Vira Garcia | Recruiting Houston | Director of Recruiting | vcfo |
Lance Hunsicker | Recruiting LA | Executive Recruiter | Parsons Corporation |
Azin Etminan | Recruiting LA | Corporate Recruiter | L'ange |
Jane Knaus | Recruiting LA | Affinity Fulfillment Leader- Sr. Technical Recruiter | Affinity |
Gillian Diamond | Recruiting LA | Senior Manager Talent Acquisition | Entertainment Partners |
Cindy Wong | Recruiting LA | Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist | Princess Cruises |
Becky Gramenz | Recruiting Minneapolis | Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist | Looking for Work |
Denise Ward | Recruiting Minneapolis | Technical Recruiter | Wunderlich-Malec Engineering |
Cheryl Ridgway | Recruiting Nashville | Senior Recruiter | Charter |
Keith Rutsky | Recruiting NYC | Talent Acquistion | Live Nation Entertainment |
Tamara Garlett | Recruiting Portland | Senior Recruiter, Global Footwear Product Creation | Nike |
Connor Snashall | Recruiting Portland | Senior Technical Recruiter | Nike |
Diane Redinger | Recruiting Portland | Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition | Altium |
Daniel Snelgrow | Recruiting Portland | Recruiter | Nike |
Lucia Agnese | Recruiting Seattle | Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Maintenance & Engineering | Alaska Airlines |
Amy Shook | Recruiting Seattle | Senior Recruiter | RealSelf |
Disha Salgia | Recruiting Seattle | Recruiter - Sales & Marketing | ExtraHop |
Katie Fitzner | Recruiting Seattle | Sr. Recruiter (Contract) | Walmart eCommerce |
Angela Carr | Recruiting Seattle | Talent Acquisition Senior Manager | Slalom Consulting |
Radhika Aggarwal | Recruiting SFBA | Senior Technical Recruiter | Macy's |
Leslie Lynch | Recruiting SFBA | Talent Acquisition Manager, Global Sales | Couchbase |
Shana Shaffer | Recruiting SFBA | Senior Talent Acquisition Partner | The RealReal |
Jessica Nbuyen | Recruiting SFBA | Talent Acquisition | Roku |
Alyse Parrino | Recruiting SFBA | Corporate Recruiter | Veev |
Melissa Lapena | Recruiting SFBA | Manager Talent Acquisition | Constellation Brands |
Nick Mailey | Recruiting SFBA | Vice President of Talent Acquisition | Equinix |
Christine Higgins | Recruiting SFBA | Technical Recruiter | Quora |
Justin Layman | Recruiting SFBA | Recruiter | Intuit |
Teri Owens | Recruiting SFBA | Senior Recruiter | Hitachi America, Ltd. |
Liina Lind | Recruiting SFBA | Recruiting Manager at SiFive USA | SiFive |
Josie Morgado | Recruiting SFBA | Sr. Sourcing Recruiter | Zillow |
Svitlana Sikora | Recruiting SFBA | SWE Leadership Sourcing Recruiter | |
Elisabeth Wolf | Recruiting SFBA | Talent Acquisition Specialist | TDK InvenSense |
Anita Pagin | Recruiting SFBA | Career Coaching and Consulting | Not Available |
JoDee Klinker | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | Carson Group |
Jody Block | TA Leaders | Associate Director, Talent Acquisition Operations | Chewy |
Lance Boll | TA Leaders | Senior Director of Talent Acquisition | J.B. Poindexter & Co. |
Taylor Friesz | TA Leaders | Corporate Director of Talent Acquisition | Spire Hospitality |
Leif Wennerstrom | TA Leaders | Director, Business and University Talent Acquisition | Procore Technologies |
Ryan Reeder | TA Leaders | Director Talent Acquisition | Sorenson Communications |
Bix Cruz | TA Leaders | US Head of Recruiting, Airbus Urban Mobility (Vahana, UTM, Voom and Systems) | Airbus |
Michelle Sickles | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | IFM Restoration |
Eddie Stewart | TA Leaders | Head of Talent Acquisition | Radius Health |
Kevin Francis | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | Lark Technologies |
Matt Miller | TA Leaders | Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition | Worldwide Clinical Trials |
Nancee Martin | TA Leaders | Managing Director Corporate Recruiting | AvAirPros |
Melissa Rutledge | TA Leaders | Talent Acquisition Director | Point B |
Khursheed Irani | TA Leaders | Head of Talent Acquisition | cPrime |
Kelly Minella | TA Leaders | Head of Recruiting | Calendly |
Teri Levy | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition | Wellpath |
Nick Moore | TA Leaders | Director of Recruiting | sbe Lifestyle Hospitality |
Tracey Saccani | TA Leaders | Head of Talent Acquisition | Air Products |
Carrie Walecka | TA Leaders | Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition | Brightcove |
Silke Olsen | TA Leaders | Recruiting Associate Director | Moss Adams |
Tiffany Chan | TA Leaders | Director, Recruiting & Training | Executive Leadership | Employee Development | Pioneer Industries International |
Kreisler Ng | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition & Public Training Practice | cPrime |
Brian Budchuk | TA Leaders | Associate Director, Talent Acquisition | Critical Mass |
David Jaramillo | TA Leaders | Recruiting|Talent|Sourcing Director. Let's Attract | Divergence Academy |
Derek Dostal | TA Leaders | Director Talent Acquisition | Trinity Industries |
Julie Fontaine | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | EXPRESS |
Marci Caudle | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition & Development | Frontline Education |