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Challenges
• Find a better way to identify, hire, and retain quality
store associates.
• Improve the customer shopping experience across
all locations.
• Reduce turnover among hourly store associates (a group
that generally has very high turnover in the retail industry).
• Obtain behavioral insights that lead to career path planning
and point to future promotion opportunities.
Benefits
• Streamlined the recruiting and hiring process.
• Enhanced shoppers’ experience in stores by staffing with
employees who are a better fit.
• Decreased overall turnover among hourly associates
by 41.9% for hires made using Infor® Talent Science
(compared to those hired through traditional means).
• Lowered the involuntary turnover rate (performance-related
terminations) by 66% among the same groups.
• Gained behavioral knowledge that helps drive improvement
throughout the employee lifecycle.
“To manage the Replenishment and Customer Experience
teams for our ‘Store of the Future,’ we were creating some
positions that didn’t exist. The operators came to us and said,
‘We want an Infor Talent Science profile’ because they had such
faith in what we’d already done.”
—Patti Popson, Manager Operations Leadership Training,
Michaels
Facts at a glance
Product: Infor Talent Science™
Industry: Retail
Country: US
“Our operators understand why the integrity
of the profiles is so important. In our post-
deployment study, we saw a 9.8% difference
in true store operating income for those
people who were hired in the ‘Recommended’
bucket.”
—Patti Popson, Manager Operations
Leadership Training, Michaels
About the company
Founded in 1973, Michaels currently owns
and operates more than 1,100 Michaels
stores and over 125 Aaron Brothers locations
in the US and Canada, and is the largest
specialty retailer of arts and crafts in the
region. The average Michaels store
contains 40,000 different products in
18,200 square feet of retail space. Since 2003,
Michaels’ executive HR team has included
Infor Talent Science in its recruiting efforts to
reduce turnover by improving the quality of
candidate selections. To learn more,
visit www.michaels.com.
Customer Snapshot
Michaels decreases turnover by
41.9% with Infor Talent Science
641 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10011 800-260-2640 infor.com
Copyright© 2014 Infor. All rights reserved. The word and design marks set forth herein are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Infor and/or related affiliates and subsidiaries.
All other trademarks listed herein are the property of their respective owners. This document is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute a commitment to you in
any way. The information, products and services described herein are subject to change at any time without notice. www.infor.com.
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Michaels Talent Science Case Study

  • 1. Challenges • Find a better way to identify, hire, and retain quality store associates. • Improve the customer shopping experience across all locations. • Reduce turnover among hourly store associates (a group that generally has very high turnover in the retail industry). • Obtain behavioral insights that lead to career path planning and point to future promotion opportunities. Benefits • Streamlined the recruiting and hiring process. • Enhanced shoppers’ experience in stores by staffing with employees who are a better fit. • Decreased overall turnover among hourly associates by 41.9% for hires made using Infor® Talent Science (compared to those hired through traditional means). • Lowered the involuntary turnover rate (performance-related terminations) by 66% among the same groups. • Gained behavioral knowledge that helps drive improvement throughout the employee lifecycle. “To manage the Replenishment and Customer Experience teams for our ‘Store of the Future,’ we were creating some positions that didn’t exist. The operators came to us and said, ‘We want an Infor Talent Science profile’ because they had such faith in what we’d already done.” —Patti Popson, Manager Operations Leadership Training, Michaels Facts at a glance Product: Infor Talent Science™ Industry: Retail Country: US “Our operators understand why the integrity of the profiles is so important. In our post- deployment study, we saw a 9.8% difference in true store operating income for those people who were hired in the ‘Recommended’ bucket.” —Patti Popson, Manager Operations Leadership Training, Michaels About the company Founded in 1973, Michaels currently owns and operates more than 1,100 Michaels stores and over 125 Aaron Brothers locations in the US and Canada, and is the largest specialty retailer of arts and crafts in the region. The average Michaels store contains 40,000 different products in 18,200 square feet of retail space. Since 2003, Michaels’ executive HR team has included Infor Talent Science in its recruiting efforts to reduce turnover by improving the quality of candidate selections. To learn more, visit www.michaels.com. Customer Snapshot Michaels decreases turnover by 41.9% with Infor Talent Science 641 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10011 800-260-2640 infor.com Copyright© 2014 Infor. All rights reserved. The word and design marks set forth herein are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Infor and/or related affiliates and subsidiaries. All other trademarks listed herein are the property of their respective owners. This document is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute a commitment to you in any way. The information, products and services described herein are subject to change at any time without notice. www.infor.com. INF-1425343-EN-US-1114-2