Webinar
This week I had the honor and privilege of delivering a webinar for SHRM focusing on how to ‘recruit like the big guys’ for small to mid-size companies. You’re welcome to download the presentation here, or if you are a SHRM member, register and listen to the audio recording anytime. With over 600 attendees on [...]
by Mark McMillan
This week at Corpus Operis in Casekow, Germany, I had the pleasure of meeting Mark Harrison, the CEO of Abraham&Harrison (“A&H”). A&H is a global social media marketing and public relations company [see the framed video below for a pleasurable description of what they do]. The company has a [...]
by Elaine Orler
I’ve focused my 15 year career on and around recruiting technology. I was around when the first scanners were brought in house.The scanners took up an entire desk and you were excited to scan one resume at a time and hopeful the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) would work well enough to at least [...]
by Mark McMillan
This past weekend I met with a client that is going through a career transition. He updated me on his latest interview with a well-known sports apparel company.
By Mark McMillan |
My mind thinks and spells the word “clarity” this way. It makes more sense to think of it spelled this way.
Talent Function is a consultancy whose mission is to facilitate the evolution of the corporate staffing function. Talent Function helps staffing leaders and solution providers to deliver results for their clients. Talent Function combines project-based consulting with executive coaching services to address the people, practices, and software that make up the Talent Acquisition function.
Talent Function measures itself by the degree to which its clients are viewed as leaders. We believe that the best way to deliver value for our clients is to focus on Talent Acquisition domain and to offer coaching with our consulting services. Our clients rely on our market knowledge and experience when they are implementing a new strategy. Consulting advice; however, is limited in its impact. Coaching leadership and teamwork often offers the greatest leverage for improving the results of the function. Inherent in our approach is a focus on the career progression of our clients.
We work the business executives that are responsible for delivering staffing results for large, global organizations. We work with leaders that are looking to evolve their talent acquisition platform. A common challenge would be a desire to replace, optimize, or re-implement their recruitment software. Another example would be a client that wants to develop a strategy to address an emerging trend - such as the emergence of social media platforms. We also work with staffing leaders who have recently been promoted to roles that require greater leadership.
