The Art of Recruiting
Finding the Best Talent for Your Organization
The Art of Recruiting is about how to best position your organization from a marketing perspective and how to recruit skilled workers to your company first. H&R Block’s Shari Soper-Simmons explains.
If you’re an HR professional tasked with recruitment, you are very aware the fight for talent is real. You’re not only competing against competitors in your industry, but also those outside your industry. That’s where the Art of Recruiting comes in to play. That includes how to best position your organization from a marketing perspective and how to recruit skilled workers to your company first.
Shari Simmons-Soper is the Director of Talent Acquisition for H&R Block. During her Talent Exchange Live presentation entitled The Art of Recruiting: Finding the Best Talent for Your Organization, Simmons-Soper said, from her perspective, the War for Talent is over and talent won. Why does she believe that to be the case? For her, it deals with the amount of messaging candidates are getting from organizations. They’re inundated with marketing from organizations looking for new employees. These candidates have become well versed in being able to tell the difference between a legitimate opportunity and one that’s not. As a result, they are able to easily pick and choose the companies they want to focus on when it comes to taking on a job with a new organization.
In this session, learn:
- About the shifting talent landscape
- Why employer branding is more critical than ever
- How to improve your employer brand and employer experience
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Presenters:
Shari Soper-Simmons
Director of Talent Acquisition
H&R Block
Shari is the Director of Talent Acquisition for the H&R Block headquarters, where she leads the talent acquisition function to deliver the attraction, selection, and onboarding of 80,000+ hires per year, heavily leveraging automation. Shari started her career in agency recruitment, and prior to H&R Block also spent ten years with Colgate-Palmolive, most recently as Regional Talent Acquisition Leader for Latin America & North America. Shari has a track record of delivering enterprise wide talent acquisition results in the areas of global talent acquisition process design, employer branding, change management, and innovation.
Shari is an advisory board member for TeamKC, a division of the Kansas City Area Development Council, and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management and Leadership from Friends University in Wichita, KS.
