The Campus Talent Ecosystem™
Effective and efficient early talent acquisition is far more complex than most realize. It comprises brand marketing, university relations, internal alliances, youth engagement, and many more components.
The Campus Talent Ecosystem™ is a model designed to help employers gain a holistic view of their current strengths and challenges and set priorities as part of a comprehensive Campus Recruitment Strategic Plan.
The Model is described below as well as a free tool you can use – the Concise Campus Talent Acquisition Scorecard – to evaluate your current situation and methodically identify the areas that need the most attention.
Strategic Plan, Goals, Objectives & Actions
Does your recruitment plan clearly define your mission, your goals and objectives, and your criteria for success?
Leadership Support & Internal Engagement
Do you have enough support from within – including organizational leaders, hiring managers, recruiters, marketing, and functional areas?
Campus Intake Programs Design
Are in-demand programs in place for students to be hired into?
Defining Your Brand for Campus
Does your brand messaging resonate with the student market and attract the right candidates?
Campus Activities & Student Engagement
Are enough students excited about your organization and do they understand the opportunities available?
Candidate Screening, Selection and Conversion
Are you selecting and converting the right talent required to meet your future needs?
Candidate & New Hire Experience
Does your candidate experience improve engagement with your organization and create positive word-of-mouth promotion?
Market Knowledge & Team Development
Do you have a high performing, knowledgeable team that engages well with candidates?
Technology, Systems & Processes
Is there anything getting in the way of you or your teams’ efficiency and productivity?
Benchmarks, Outcomes & Evaluation
Do your campus recruitment and early talent programs measure up and improve over time?
The Campus Talent Ecosystem™ is comprised of ten key success drivers that are organized in three stages: Planning, Pipeline, and Performance.
The three stages and ten success drivers are described below.
Planning
The internal work required to establish recruitment goals, create demand for new talent within your organization, and design student programs.
Strategic Plan, Goals, Objectives & Actions
Does your recruitment plan clearly define your mission, your goals and objectives, and your criteria for success?
Leadership Support & Internal Engagement
Do you have enough support from within – including organizational leaders, hiring managers, recruiters, marketing, and functional areas?
Campus Intake Programs Design
Are in-demand programs in place for students to be hired into?
Pipeline
The external process of creating a supply of the right talent for your organization.
Defining Your Brand for Campus
Does your brand messaging resonate with the student market and attract the right candidates?
Campus Activities & Student Engagement
Are enough students excited about your organization and do they understand the opportunities available?
Candidate Screening, Selection and Conversion
Are you selecting and converting the right talent required to meet your future needs?
Candidate & New Hire Experience
Does your candidate experience improve engagement with your organization and create positive word-of-mouth promotion?
Performance
The ongoing effort to improve and optimize capabilities, processes, tools, and technology to enhance outcomes.
Market Knowledge & Team Development
Do you have a high performing, knowledgeable team that engages well with candidates?
Technology, Systems & Processes
Is there anything getting in the way of you or your teams’ efficiency and productivity?
Benchmarks, Outcomes & Evaluation
Do your campus recruitment and early talent programs measure up and improve over time?
What’s Your Score?
Now that you have seen an overview of the Campus Talent Ecosystem™, use the free Concise Campus Talent Acquisition Scorecard™ to evaluate your current position and reveal key areas for improvement.
Note that this is a condensed version of the much more robust full edition of the Campus Talent Acquisition Scorecard™ used in our training programs and strategic advisory services.
In this Concise Scorecard, you will conduct a self-evaluation across 20 criteria (the full edition comprises 63 criteria).
(It’s free and takes just 10 minutes!)
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