Case Studies
See below to read case studies about our work.
Talent Acquisition
Turning Around the Talent Acquisition Function
A Talent Acquisition leader new to the function was concerned about the function’s reputation within the business. Senior leadership wanted quality of hire dramatically improved, while reducing costs. inTalent was hired to identify the root causes of the problems and improve the speed, quality and costs of filling jobs at this Fortune 500 organization. Continue Reading ...
What’s Derailing Recruiting?
The organization’s approach to filling jobs was time consuming and costly, and everyone involved–candidates, hiring managers and even the recruiting team–was frustrated. To make matters more difficult, there was an industry-wide shortage of medical staff, especially nurses. Although the organization’s leaders had recently deployed an expensive new staffing technology, it didn’t seem to be working. Continue Reading ...
Discovering Talent On-Campus
A major beverage bottler/distributor needed to expand their approach to acquiring talent. The new Vice President of Human Resources hired inTalent to create an enterprise-wide, three-pronged approach to college recruiting that would: hire and employ summer interns, build a co-op program in which college students work full-time at the company while still in school and build their leadership pipeline. Continue Reading ...
Recruiting on Campus: Getting Started
A mid-sized company found that it lacked the depth of talent necessary to sustain its projected growth. The company needed additional sources of leadership talent and they needed to build a pipeline. They were interested in building a college recruiting program and subsequent development process for the new hires that would be a significant part of the strategy. Continue Reading ...
Building Internal Executive Search Capability
A leading financial services firm was considering an internal executive search function as a new service solution for its portfolio companies. As the firm was experiencing growth, the firm needed to review recruiting efforts across the portfolio companies and determine if an internal executive search function would add value to the firm. The firm engaged inTalent Consulting due to our deep expertise in designing and developing internal executive search functions. Continue Reading ...
Developing a Sourcing Strategy and Recruiting Plan
A highly specialized global manufacturer recognized the challenges in sourcing new talent. Many of their expert knowledge workers and long-time professionals were retiring. They were concerned with losing intellectual capital without bench strength to backfill the talent required. The company engaged inTalent Consulting Group to identify the talent deficits, develop a global sourcing strategy, and build a tactical plan for developing an external talent pipeline. Continue Reading ...
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Talent Management
Improving Employees’ Performance
The franchise owners of a restaurant chain were entering a new metro market and needed the HR infrastructure to staff their stores, launch their brand and drive superior customer service. However, they didn’t have a dedicated HR team in place. Continue Reading ...
Improving Managers’ Skills
A national fast food restaurant chain was facing high attrition in most of its locations. The company realized that the key to solving the problem was giving front-line managers the tools and information they needed to increase retention. Continue Reading ...
Creating a Company’s Performance Management
Many of the formalities of large corporations are refreshingly absent in a somewhat smaller organization. Everyone works together to grow the business with a passionate, team-based spirit. Communication is typically open, frequent and far-reaching with little effort. But, what happens when all the hard work pays off and almost suddenly that small company becomes a mid-sized corporation? Many of those avoided formalities become not only helpful, but also essential to maintaining high, quality growth – such as performance appraisals. Continue Reading ...
Benchmarking Study on Use of Temporary Employee
How “temporary” are your temporary employees? Does your company measure ‘temporary’ in days, weeks, months or years? The corporate office of one of America’s largest quick-service restaurants was experiencing a sharp increase in its ratio of temporary to regular employees. At the company’s current hiring rate, in 10 years, there would be one temporary employee for every two regular employees. That was an alarming trend for many reasons, but the most immediate concern was the impact to its very tight-knit and celebrated culture. Temporary employees—some with the company for as many as five years—were feeling like the “have nots” in a sea of “haves.”inTalent Consulting Group was engaged to complete a benchmarking study, including a review the different aspects of temporary staffing to include legal implications, financial impact, cultural nuances and potential changes and how others were addressing these types of issues. Our team explored many different solutions, but several key executives were not convinced there was even a problem to be solved. This presented its own challenge, as the head of HR felt it was not only a significant issue, but also an urgent one. Continue Reading ...
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Human Resources
Building an Employment Brand
Two leading homebuilding companies merged, and new leadership was planning to announce the new company identity to everyone within the organizations. As part of the gathering, leadership wanted to include an Employment Value Statement (EVP) as part of the official “Day One” launch. The VP of Human Resources hired inTalent to create an EVP that would motivate employees and clearly articulate the new company’s blended culture. Most of all, the leadership team wanted to create a memorable experience capturing the excitement of the new company through well-planned meetings and a lasting message that would drive all employee communication going forward. Continue Reading ...
Communicating Large-Scale Change
A global leader in the field of consumer healthcare research, development and manufacturing decided to launch a Six Sigma process improvement program. The company leaders needed to introduce Six Sigma enterprise-wide to thousands of employees, working in multiple countries, speaking different languages. Continue Reading ...
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