Hiring Fast, But Smart: Talent Acquisition for High-Growth Organizations
The pressures of successful hiring are intense enough, but everything becomes exceedingly more complicated and the stakes are higher when you are hiring for a business in high-growth mode. When companies start scaling rapidly - particularly in an awakening economy where there is a deficit of top talent like we are seeing today - more is on the line for talent acquisition, and your hiring strategy has to scale accordingly. Technology moves from a valuable tool to an utter necessity to keep pace and ensure you are not sacrificing quality as you face high-demand conditions. It's also imperative to outline a plan and set some hiring patterns from the start, which can be adapted, as needed, as you start growing and scaling your hiring process.
Not all talent professionals have experienced the variables, unpredictability and disruption that comes with hiring at rapid speed, but chances are they will at some point in their careers due to new funding, an M&A, a market surge or a staffing deficit.
In this session, talent leaders will learn how to leverage data analytics, automation, artificial intelligence and data-driven engagement to acquire talent in a high-growth environment. Attendees will learn which components are most critical for today's recruitment tech stack, and get a glimpse into how Booster is using some of the latest technologies to succeed in a fast-pace and cut-throat hiring landscape.
Learning Objectives:
- How to establish an optimized hiring process, including evaluating your hiring needs, planning your timeline, calculating time to hire and structuring your hiring process.
- The types of technologies that you need in your recruitment stack to be most successful.
- Ways analytics, automation and AI can help you source the best talent and hire with greater efficiency.
- How Booster's talent team is succeeding in a sourcing and hiring in a talent market that's changed exponentially in the past two years.
Karen Worthy
Karen Worthy enjoys solving the most challenging problems in the industry and is known for her ability to make difficult problems seem simple. As VP of Talent Acquisition and Employee Experience at Booster, she leads a team that is revolutionizing how the industry hires for both field workers and corporate employees. With Booster’s accelerated growth trajectory, her team has mastered high volume recruiting in hard-to-fill roles such as CDL truck drivers.
Karen is a self-proclaimed data geek, an engineering and business graduate, and a mom of three amazing boys. Her resume boasts companies such as Amazon and Procter & Gamble, which have prepared her for her role leading change and growth within the startup world of Booster.
Hari Kolam
As the CEO and co-founder of Findem, Hariharan is responsible for driving the company’s overall direction and strategic growth, as well as overseeing its day-to-day operations. He’s a serial entrepreneur and accomplished technologist, with nearly two decades of experience building companies and creating trailblazing technology solutions.
Hariharan was previously the co-founder and CTO of Instart, where he led the company’s technical vision and translated customer requirements into realizable, innovative solutions. During his time at Instart, he co-authored more than 50 patents. Hariharan has also held senior-level engineering positions with Aster Data, where he worked on all features across the entire development stack, as well as with the Solaris Cluster group at Sun, where he contributed critical modules of software.
Hariharan holds a master’s degree in computer science from Stony Brook University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from NIT Nagpur, India.