Talent Pipelining

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Businesses that struggle to attract the talent they need, do so because they don’t know where to find them or what they want. A Talent Pipeline tackles these challenging questions in advance so that as your need to recruit arises, you will know where to find the right people, how to engage with them and how to attract them.

What is talent pipelining?

Talent pipelining is a strategic approach to identifying and engaging the right candidates, no matter where they are in the world. A talent pipeline is a list of pre-qualified, engaged and available talent identified to fill a specific role or multiple roles. Importantly, Talent Pipelines can be built for current vacancies or future needs, which means there are many applications of Pipelining.

We build Talent Pipelines on your behalf, enabling you to develop and cultivate strong relationships with pipeline candidates, until the time is right for you to make an offer. Additionally, our pipelining service provides valuable talent insights into how candidates perceive your company, helping you develop strategies to enhance your employer brand.

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When to use Talent Pipelining?

Disruption is an unavoidable factor in people planning and it pays to be ready when it comes. A talent pipeline can help you identify and cultivate the individuals ready to ‘step up’ when it does, thus helping to ensure business continuity (or minimal business disruption) due to unexpected changes.

Growth is the target of most businesses. But it can also prove their greatest challenge if it isn't planned for. As businesses grow, they need to take on new talent to continue to deliver their success. By pipelining talent and engaging with a pool of external talent in advance, growth can be managed and talent integrated as the strategy and performance dictates, substantially reducing the people risks associated with growth.


 

Businesses need to attract the best people. We can help you establish the strategies and relationships that will help your business broaden its talent pool. Using a talent pipeline provides a targeted approach to improving diversity at all levels within the business will lead to increased revenues and business performance.

Often described as ‘just common sense’, business continuity is also described in terms of resilience and agility. We can build a talent pipeline to help you identify the people with the resilience and agility to underpin your future business success and reduce risk.

As it does with your customers, your business has a brand identity amongst your employees and potential employees. We can help you understand and develop your employee brand to get the best out of your people. By understanding how your brand is perceived in the marketplace and amongst new generations, we help you adapt to attract the best talent for the future.

Our approach to Talent Pipelining

Transform your hiring strategy from reactive and costly to future-proofed and strategic with our talent pipelining solution. We take care of the entire process, from screening candidates to delivering a list of ready-to-hire individuals for your current and future needs.

Who & Where

To hire the right people in the future, we help you to identify who they are and where they are right now, wherever in the world. This phase in talent pipelining is called talent pool development.

As well as helping identify prospective talent, we help you to engage with them; to understand their aspirations and motivations; and to maintain that relationship up until a point at which you might want to begin a hiring process.

Aspiration & Motivation

As well as helping identify prospective talent, as part of our pipelining service, we help you engage with them; to understand their aspirations and motivations, qualify their skills and experience, and validate their goals and potential interest in forming part of your future team. 

Perception & Relationship

Equally importantly, we’ll help you to understand how they see you. You’ll be able to deploy strategies that develop your ‘employer brand’. By managing and shaping perceptions, we help people to see you in a better, truer light. From initial contact to the point of hire, we build relationships with people on your behalf. We nurture strong bonds so that when you want to attract them, they’ll be ready to talk.

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Case Studies

Project Examples

Succession Planning for a C-Suite Role in the CFO Group

Our work with a global bank to improve the bench strength and introducing talent from underrepresented groups in the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) group.

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Attracting Exceptional Talent in a New Market

Discover how we deployed an embedded search team to make 33 new hires in a business-critical function of a global financial services organization.

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Sourcing Critical Skills for a Global Software Company

Discover how we provided 400 candidate profiles with critical skills to help a global software company remain competitive globally.

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Hiring Highly Skilled Talent in an Unfamiliar Location

Discover how we discreetly found talent for 10 key positions and built a talent pipeline and map for future hiring.

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How we helped Microsoft accelerate hiring in the cloud computing market

A case study on our talent research project for Microsoft.

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Global succession & diversity planning to manage leadership risk

Our work with a US-based technology multi-national to define, understand and pipeline Country Leaders globally to manage leadership risk.

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