Step 2Talent Acquisition
You want to develop a strategic process that will attract and recruit the best talent available to ensure your organization has the right people, with the right skills, who are in the right job, and are working against the right requirements.
Resources
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Best practices forAll employees
- Cultivate an excellent candidate experience.
- Ensure that education level and years of direct experience are not being exclusionary.
- Apply a resource endowment lens to human capital needs assessment. Look across the organization and apply a skills and competency inventory to identify both areas within the firm where existing skill and competencies are both superior and lacking.
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Best practices for Veterans
- Let veterans know you have received their resume or application; give them insight as to the next steps in your application process.
- Triple-check on job descriptions: pass the job descriptions around to other departments to see if the roles and responsibilities are clear.
- Focus on veterans needs and skills, in order to match them with the best positions in the company.
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Questions to ask
- What are your prioritized needs for skills?
- How do you curate an excellent candidate experience?
- Are you considering other factors besides years of direct experience and education level?
- Are interviewers familiar with interviewing techniques to ensure effective discussions with veteran candidates?
- In your conversation with veterans, are you gaining understanding of their unique needs?
- Have you established a workflow to communicate receipt of resume or application?
