Out of Office - Remote Screening and Selection in a Distributed World

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2022 Talent Conference
Attendees will learn remote workers will be with us into the future - how can we remotely screen and select applicants who will align with our organizational values and culture.

Repeated on Monday, 2:30pm - 3:30pm

In today's environment, a remote or partially remote workforce is part of organizational reality. Remote methods must achieve "job fit" and values alignment while remaining human and working within tight budgets. As employers move quickly to a "distributed workforce" model, what works in remote talent acquisition?  What fails? 

We are in a "perfect storm" of extended quarantines, productivity pressures, and an easing of the talent shortage.  Suddenly many hiring markets have become "recruiter's markets," but we have limitations on face to face interviews and a workforce willing to do whatever it takes to secure employment.  This session will offer a mix of new tactics and proven strategies to help talent managers quickly adapt to the new rules.

This facilitated discussion covers the topic from two viewpoints - from the staffing side of human resources, and from the applicant's point of view.

Learning Objectives:

  • How to screen, select and onboard from a distance.
  • Using valid assessment to increase the odds of "job fit" without a face to face meeting.
  • Increasing the talent pool with the removal of geographic barriers.
  • Reducing the impact of unconscious bias in hiring.
  • Staying within the legal lines while using new tools and advancing new ideas.
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Monday, April 11, 2022 - 10:30am to 11:30am
Presenter: 

Karl James Ahlrichs

Karl
Ahlrichs

Karl Ahlrichs specializes in helping professionals make order from chaos. He is a national speaker, author, and consultant, presenting on the people issues in all industries, and is often quoted in the local and national media. 

Karl’s experience is ideally suited to times of organizational change as he pulls on risk management and organizational development theories to replace “best practices” with “next practices”. He owes much of his communications mastery to working as a writer and editor in daily media, to on-the-job writing experience and to the process of becoming a published author.

He joined Gregory & Appel in 2010 after serving as a founding partner of ExactHire, bringing his HR, operations, diversity & belonging, and learning & development skills with him. Karl’s affinity for design, composition and learning started at a very young age, by taking and examining thousands of boring pictures with the goal of improving his craft. He loves deploying that practice-to-improve approach with all manner of hobbies including writing haiku, mastering cutting-edge technology and learning Spanish.

In 2003, he was named the SHRM Human Resource Professional of the Year for the State of Indiana. He is on the Boards of several organizations, including the Maryland CPA Society.  He has lived in Scotland and Spain and lives to explore new experiences with his wife and family.

 

Location: 
Summit 8-9
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Interpersonal (Behavioral)
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