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1. Leveraging Talent Communities
Ryan Cook
Talent Acquisition Strategist
LinkedIn
Richa Telang
Greater Asia Staffing Channels Manager
Intel
@RichaTelang

2. Agenda
In theory…
 Definition of Talent Community
 Making the case for investment
 Strategic alignment to WFP and Business Strategy
Making it work…
 A proactive channel
 Taking the journey
 Key findings
Your turn…
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3. Talent Community
Definition and Strategy
Ryan Cook
Talent Acquisition Strategist
LinkedIn

4. What is a Talent Community?
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10. Talent Community
Making It Work
Richa Telang
Greater Asia Staffing Channels Manager
Intel
@RichaTelang

11. Talent Community: A Proactive Channel
Talent Market landscape
The Talent Community
Opportunity
• Need to engage our ‘Hard to Find’, passive Talent
• Talent Communities Create a solid candidate pipeline, focused on
quality rather than quantity.
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12. Making it Work!
Member
Acquisition
Backward Integrate
Internally
Talent
Community
Journey!
Community
creates
Stickiness
Recruitment
Is
Changing!!
Structured
Engagement:
Create
mindshare:
Result!
•
1300+
85% possess skillsets we hire and working with our target companies
OUTCOMES
• Developed an engaged Talent pool of
unexplored targeted profiles.
• 175% increase in member base
• High CTR and impressions resulted in a
viral effect on LinkedIn.
Members
Learning
• Low financial investment
• Efficient for niche/hard to find
talent: Better Quality
• Created a pull for our careers
instead of push efforts.
•
Over the maturity phase
moderate number of profiles
received and hires made.
Created a pull: 145 Members
reached recruiters enquiring
for s/w careers.
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13. Learnings
Success of
‘Talent
Community’
depends on how
well it is
sustained.
Building
relationship is the
key
• Talent Community is a high engagement
activity. It takes bandwidth and
commitment
• Need a structured approach before one
plunges in..
• Needs additional resource support
• Business Manager commitment is still a
challenge
• It takes time before we see results
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