Cracking Top 5 Talent Acquisition Challenges with Talent Commerce

Why will our Talent Acquisition team fail?

About 2 weeks back our team participating at the SHRM HR Tech APAC 2019 was asked this daunting question by a lady delegate who visited our booth at the event. She heads the talent acquisition efforts for one of the prominent technology companies who are the makers of world-leading products in the IT Infrastructure Management space. Her argument was — we have invested in a large in-house team of expert recruiters, we have subscribed to all possible job boards, implemented an ATS software, partnered with a renowned assessments provider and there are social media platforms that we leverage to source talent. So like any other employer, they seem to have played all their talent acquisition strategy cards well and we were curious to discover if they still faced any challenges with regards to their talent acquisition and so we popped the question — you seem to have a well-planned holistic approach to your recruiting, is there any challenge at all that your organization faces or is there a wish list your stakeholders have? There you go. We were quite intrigued to listen to what followed as her response. She said, “yes, though we seem to be doing everything right(at least in theory); yet the most common challenges that we face are around simpler ways to incorporating gender diversity as an integral part of our hiring strategy, attracting the quality talent, assessing the candidate to job fitment, post-offer drop-outs. Another unique challenge that has emerged over the last couple of years is that how do we manage the candidate data well and utilize the same to garner meaningful insights to figure out the ways to utilizing those much desired(but missing today) insights to make our talent acquisition strategy a lot more impactful.” She has been in the industry for about 2 decades and hence had closely observed and had been through the sea change that we have seen in the recruiting space. This was originally published on SCIKEY website. Read full story at SCIKEY