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Our Services at Talent Management Strategies

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Talent Acquisition

Your employees truly are your best asset, and our Talent Acquisition expertise will help you find the best fit for your roles, in a more efficient and cost effective way.

Talent Management Strategies offers the following solutions:

  • Staff training/coaching
  • Recruitment process outsourcing/RPO (link to RPO page)
  • Strategic resource development
  • Cost saving strategies
  • Vendor negotiations
  • Sourcing skill development
  • Screening and interview solutions
  • Resource evaluation
  • Employer branding

Results:

  • Reduced cost per hire
  • Reduced time to fill/time to start
  • Reduced agency usage
  • Increased hiring manager satisfaction
Presentations, Speeches, and Workshops

As specialists in talent acquisition and recruitment, Talent Management Strategies professionals are available to speak on a variety of HR-related topics.

Topics include:

  • Talent Management in a Resource-Challenged Environment
  • Cost-Effective Recruitment Practices
  • Formulating a Strategic Recruitment Plan
  • Behavioral-Based Interviewing
  • Best Practices in Healthcare Recruitment
  • Customer Service Excellence

Talent Management in a Resource-Challenged Environment

Kristen Carroll and Tom Howard walk you through a process that took a troubled healthcare system and turned their recruiting division into a world class recruitment organization.

Participants will learn how to:

  • standardize hiring processes
  • use checklists to keep the process flowing
  • recruit candidates despite limited resources
    involve hiring managers and teams in the acquisition process
  • source with a small budget
  • employ behavioral-based interviewing techniques
  • utilize customer service for sourcing talent
Recent Speaking Engagements:

ERE Expo - Cost-Effective Recruitment Strategies

Association of Employment Professionals - Best Practices in Healthcare Recruitment

NorthEast Human Resources Association - featured speaker - Cost Effective Recruitment Strategies

Recent Articles:

Develop Best Practices in a Resource Challenged Environment, Carroll, Kristen, and Howard, Thomas J., Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, February 2009

Contact Information:

Kristen Carroll (857) 540-1610
Tom Howard (781) 435-0322

Recruitment Process Outsourcing/RPO

Talent Management Strategies offers tailored and measurable RPO solutions for our clients. We provide specialized and personal recruiting solutions for hospitals & healthcare facilities and organizations nationwide. Our focus in the healthcare arena allows us to understand the needs and unique challenges our clients face.

We provide solutions for you whether you are experiencing a rapid growth pattern, needing to reduce temporary agency expenses or reacting to the shortage of talent in hard to fill skill sets. In an ever-challenging labor market, TMS offers recruitment strategies that allow your facility to compete for talent in a cost effective, custom designed program that will help you achieve your business objectives.

The Talent Management Strategies RPO can:

  • Supplement your existing team or provides you with an entire recruitment team solution if needed
  • Accomplish hiring objectives quickly
  • Reduce cost per hire and time to fill
  • Work with your hiring managers to develop a team approach to the selection process
  • Utilize unique, proven methods to source top-tier talent
  • Standardize processes and procedures
  • Centralize recruitment process at multi-system hospitals
  • Design and structure an RPO program to fit any budget, while providing immediate return on investment/ROI
Training

We offer a variety of training programs, geared to both internal employees and also to Human Resources professionals.

Training and education are vital to the success and development of your organization. The training you provide not only are you arms your employees with needed professional skill sets they need, but also conveys the message that you are invested in them and see them as part of the company’s future.

We offer training in many areas, and our most requested presentations are as follows:

  • Sourcing Training
  • Public Speaking and the art of high impact presentations
  • Behavioral Based Interviewing
  • Customer Service Excellence
  • Cost Effective Recruitment Practices
  • Best Practices in Talent Management
  • Retaining Talent

Click here to view PowerPoint Presentation on Cost Effective Recruitment Practices.

Employee Retention Solutions

Solid employee retention is key to a hospital’s operational excellence. Shortages in already hard to find skill sets are causing an over expenditure of budgets.

At Talent Management Strategies, we begin setting the stage to create employee retention from the employee's first day. Turnover is costly and retention is paramount to maintaining your quality and growth.

Talent Management Strategies offers:

  • Hiring manager tutorials on retention protocols
  • Principles of on boarding with a focus on retention
  • Instituting multi-disciplinary recruiting and retention meetings
  • Focus groups to determine key indicators
  • Developing and implementing employee incentive retention programs
  • Measuring turnover rates and creating accountability programs
Outplacement Services

Talent Management Strategies provides tailored one-on-one outplacement services. Through the guidance of a career transition consultant, we assist your transitioning employees by formulating a career guide and search plan.

Talent Management Strategies offers:

  • Resume Assessment and Building
  • Job Search Techniques
  • Communication Skills
  • Interviewing Skills and Training
  • Negotiating Skills Development
  • Career Analysis
Workforce Planning and Development

In this economy, it is crucial for all organizations to optimize workforces effectively, as well as to gain an understanding of all of the components of your current workforce and any potential vulnerabilities.

Talent Management Strategies offers the following solutions:

  • Analysis of current state
  • Projections
  • Vulnerability analysis
  • Develop and implement solutions
  • Reduce/eliminate potential gaps
  • Results analysis
Metrics Development

The adage is true—You cannot manage what you do not measure. As Human Resource professionals, we can best showcase our work and our results by speaking the language of our audience. Data and dollars are management drivers, and we are compelled to demonstrate our mastery and knowledge of both, through the results we accomplish.

Talent Management Strategies offers metrics development solutions that will quickly and clearly identify both strengths and opportunities for improvement. We provide comparative data to help you understand and share your metrics with your internal customers in a format that is both professional and easy to understand.

Succession Planning

Turnover is very costly, both monetarily and operationally, especially at the senior level. We provide succession planning solutions at the senior level, as well as throughout the entire organization.

Talent Management Strategies offers the following solutions:

  • Analysis of current workforce
  • Turnover projections
  • Career ladder development
  • Succession planning task force organization

Results:

  • Increased employee satisfaction
  • Reduced cost
  • Reduced errors
  • Reduced turnover
  • Preserved institutional knowledge
Diversity and Community Outreach

Talent Management Strategies will support you with your Diversity and Community Outreach planning. We support your commitment to developing a strong and diverse workforce. Our expertise will help you identify key local programs and organizations that will help you as you build your workforce.

We will also partner with you with OFCCP audit preparation and Affirmative Action program development and implementation.