Strategic Talent Acquisition

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Effective talent acquisition strategies take a multi-year view of the workforce necessary to execute an organization’s business strategy today and well into the future. This includes recruiting with agility for skills that may not be necessary today, but may become critical to future organizational success. Through this course, students will learn how to: effectively source positions that drive business outcomes; analyze retention and attrition data to understand critical position drivers; and, ultimately, how to engage with stakeholders to optimally execute the recruiting plan. Students will also explore how enlightened HR professionals create talent pipelines that leverage their employment brands and enhance business outcomes as organizations adapt to ever-changing market conditions. Topics include aligning the HR function with business strategy, developing a talent profile, deploying talent acquisition techniques and tools, and identifying and measuring sourcing success.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will:

• Be able to translate organizational strategy into an acquisition strategy, ultimately identifying the steps necessary (their own as well as those of other stakeholders) to identify and deliver the talent required to increase the likelihood that the organization executes its business strategy.
• Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the challenge associated with developing and implementing effective talent acquisition strategies. As a result of this course, participants will understand that, regardless of the industry one is in, the entire process must be built on a foundational competence of identifying the talent, skills, and capabilities necessary to execute current and future organizational business strategy. Building a workforce model throughout the class will enable participants to approach organizational strategic staffing with an enhanced perspective, allowing them to greatly increase the likelihood that any organization they lead and/or support will achieve consistently high performance at the individual, as well as organizational, level.