Talent Advisement
For Organizations
We partner with organizations to create and assess their Talent Advisement strategy as part of their larger organizational strategy, values, mission, and goals.
Our process of helping you source and evaluate candidates disrupts most traditional approaches. Ours is grounded in the belief that employees don’t need to “fit in,” but rather are invited as partners to create, evolve, and add value to your organization’s culture.
At every point of contact, we are not just screening, interviewing, or testing a candidate, but we are building a relationship with them. That relationship is our priority, regardless of how long they engage in the hiring process. And so every custom Talent Advisement system we build starts with Human-Centered Practices.
Talent Advisement isn’t recruiting. Because hiring a candidate is not our ultimate goal, we don’t plan backward from a desired start date, which often results in false urgency and prioritizing speed over relationships and equity. Instead, we aim to build you a system, with processes that match your values, to create a human-centered and partnership-based hiring experience for the candidate and the organization.
Our Talent Advisement Approach
The Job Description
Standard hiring practices default to using the job description of the person who vacated the position. Or creating a description for a “unicorn” who is expected to produce results on Day 1 without any training or onboarding.
We create job descriptions with values-based competencies.
Most importantly, we create the job description in collaboration with the hiring manager and other departments, so the role is designed in the context of the whole team’s functions. Sometimes, this pushes organizations to update multiple job descriptions and better understand individual roles and cross functions. Often, a thorough and values-aligned job description becomes part of the performance management process.
This is one way we create a functional hiring system and not just fill a role.
The Job Posting
More than a list of duties, the job posting is where you share your organization’s story and values, and compensation for the role.
A job posting that attracts a diverse pool of applicants may include your compensation philosophy, benefits, culture description, growth opportunities, onboarding plan, and more. All this helps candidates make an informed decision to apply.
Compensation
Any role’s salary and compensation package should be driven by a compensation philosophy. This requires a holistic understanding of compensation across the organization, including market analysis and examining pay equity among current employees.
A compensation philosophy also details how promotions and bonuses are decided, benefits, and many other factors. A salary doesn’t exist in isolation–it’s part of the organization’s strategy and impacts other employees.
Sourcing & Attracting Candidates
A common belief we see in standard hiring practices is a bias toward external candidates. As part of your Talent Advisement system, we help you examine how and whether you train and promote internally, how you can cross-train, and how you plan for succession. An equitable and human-centered hiring system should provide opportunities for current employees too.
Evaluating Candidates
An evaluation system involves training interviewers on navigating the subjective process of evaluating candidates, which is crucial for an equitable process.
We train interviewers to fully understand the role and the evaluative measures for scoring or ranking candidates, hold interviews with a consistent format, understand the shared language of competencies, hold equity-focused debriefs and discussions, and disrupt their conscious and unconscious biases.
We also help create interview questions grounded in the agreed-upon competencies and organizational values.
Onboarding for Belonging
No employee is ready to do their job fully on Day 1.
We prioritize creating time and systems for new employee training (to learn their jobs) and onboarding (to learn the culture).
These both help build belonging, empower, set expectations, and invite employees to add value and participate in the culture, not just adapt to it.
Contact us to start creating your Talent Advisement system.
For Candidates
We champion your growth and ambitions as you build autonomy and creativity—the keys to a truly fulfilling career. We help you fully understand and present your value, align with your career goals, and match with the opportunity or company where you will thrive.
We can help you:
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- Review and strengthen your resume
- Find positions and organizations that align with your goals, strengths, and values
- Prepare for the interview
- Reflect and grow with coaching and mentoring
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