Large Companies

Build a pipeline of qualified candidates ready to fill your open positions.

The average cost-per-hire in the United States is $4,129, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. As a large company, you understand how these hiring costs can truly add up. You’re positioned in a competitive market where you must identify top talent and market your opportunities and culture while many other firms vie for the same candidates’ interest.

The Kelley School Headquarters of Urban Business (HUB) can work with you to build brand awareness early among potential candidates and keep them engaged with your firm throughout their college careers.

How Kelley HUB Can Help

By developing a customized talent pipeline to fit the needs of your company, you gain access to candidates early, which can prevent just-in-time hiring. We work with you to engage students from high school through graduate school so you may access top business talent well before graduation.

The Kelley HUB helps you address and overcome the unique hiring challenges of a large company, such as:

  • Competitiveness with other large corporations.
  • Difficulties finding qualified applicants.
  • Lack of a talent pipeline, which leads to rushed, just-in-time hiring.

The Benefit of a Talent Pipeline

Identify Developing Talent Early

When you don’t have to rush to fill an open position, you have time to identify promising prospects who are still developing. Over time, you build a relationship and interest when other firms weren’t interested in these students. Once the developing talent finally reaches the required skill or experience level your open position requires, you may formally recruit them.

Increase Hiring Manager Satisfaction

The rush of typical panic-sourcing your talent often leads to some candidates who aren't good fits. When you eliminate this rush and have more time to vet your candidates, the pipeline process delivers higher-quality candidates and fewer disinterested or unqualified candidates. Hiring managers can avoid wasting time working with poorly matched candidates. When combined with your improved quality of hires, the pipeline dramatically increases hiring manager satisfaction throughout the recruiting process.

Boost Offer Acceptance Rates

Students in your recruiter’s inventory have more time to learn about and appreciate your company, which increases the chance they’ll want to join your team. This two-way communication over several years also allows your firm to capture and understand the unique needs of the candidates you’re targeting. As a result, you can sculpt your offers to meet those unique needs. Taken together, the pipeline process can dramatically increase your offer acceptance rates from those students who were in the inventory.

Solutions at Kelley HUB

The Kelley HUB offers specific programs to help large businesses build a talent pipeline that attracts and trains qualified candidates for the positions you want to grow.

  • Kelley Challenge: These are business innovation competitions hosted at local high schools. You share business challenges that expose high school students to the types of issues faced by your firm, and students develop innovative solutions based on your deliverable requirements. This introduces your company to students early in the talent pipeline.
  • Kelley Corporate Experience: These on-site job shadow programs give students the opportunity to learn more about your company and experience your culture firsthand.
  • Kelley ACT Program: Similar to an internship, students in ACT team projects are supervised by Kelley faculty and paid for their work on a specific challenge at your firm. Over the course of eight to 12 weeks, ACT projects allow you to watch the development of individual students before considering candidates for permanent job offers or company internships.

Let’s talk talent.

We want to discuss the opportunity to partner with you in the new HUB career services model. Please contact us to learn more about how we can get started.

Robert Smith

Associate Director of Employer Services, Kelley Indianapolis Career Services
rs26@iupui.edu
317-274-2587