The DOs & DON'Ts of Finding Untapped Talent in Localized Community Hiring
In today's labor market, it often feels like there aren't enough job seekers. Come listen if any of these relate to you:
- You are trying to convince your leadership team to try new recruiting strategies, but don’t know where to start
- You may be tasked to partner with community organizations, workforce programs, DEI, and schools, but don't have enough time
- You may be tasked with creating upskilling career pathways to attract apprentices or new talent
- You need to find new recruitment marketing strategies since your current job boards aren’t finding enough talent
- You are having a lot of no-shows for interviews
- You have DEI, EEO, Affirmative Action, or OFCCP goals but aren’t close to meeting them or showing good-faith efforts
Come laugh and learn in this session, while hearing best practices from Matt Strauss, CEO of RiseKit, on how to launch and scale community hiring initiatives that can bring your entire organization or company together around a shared mission.
Attendees will walk away with:
1. Best practices in starting, launching, or growing community hiring initiatives
2. How to create untapped talent pipelines and career pathways
3. What not to do or learning lessons
4. How to create trust in hard-to-reach communities
5. How to grow community engagement partnerships
Matt Strauss
As the CEO and Founder of RiseKit, a software company that connects untapped job seekers to career opportunities and supportive services, Matt has over 5 years of experience in social entrepreneurship and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Matt's passion for focusing on social problems stems from his volunteer work as a mentor for young people from under-resourced communities in Chicago. He realized the need for a system change that would break down the barriers and silos in workforce development and empower job candidates to access the resources and networks they need to thrive. That's why he created RiseKit, a software platform that helps nonprofits, employers, government systems, and community foundations save time in finding, training, and supporting job candidates, while also collecting powerful data on how to best organize communities and cities. Matt and his team work tirelessly around the belief that the zip code in which someone is born shouldn't determine one's life trajectory.
Matt is also a Forbes Human Resources Council Influencer and Contributor for The Sociable, where he shares his insights on topics such as talent acquisition, diversity equity and inclusion, social entrepreneurship, culture, community engagement, and mental health.
For fun, you should ask Matt about his love for soccer, family, poke bowls, or social entrepreneurship.
