Small Companies

Your HR Partners

Small-sized companies and closely held corporations face unique challenges when it comes to engaging and recruiting talent from universities. When you have a small – or even nonexistent – human resources division, you may face stall points in your hiring pipeline. These could include small candidate pools, a lack of access to qualified candidates and a habit of rushing to fill vacant positions. Working with the Kelley School Headquarters of Urban Business (HUB) can help alleviate these issues.

How Kelley HUB Can Help

We work with you to develop a customized talent pipeline plan that fits the needs of your company. This allows you to access talent early and streamline your hiring process. By engaging students from high school through graduate school, we can help your organization build a brand that resonates with top business talent.

The Kelley HUB helps you achieve this by addressing:

  • Company branding in a way that graduates will recognize and want to join.
  • Just-in-time hiring so that you have candidates queued up when you have openings.
  • Inconsistent hiring, which will standardize your process and improve your hiring pool.

The Benefit of a Talent Pipeline

Identify top talent early.

Have you ever needed to fill a position quickly, but couldn’t identify enough qualified candidates? By proactively developing a pipeline of talented prospective employees, there is no rush to find the right candidate when you need one. We work with you to nurture a pipeline of candidates so that over time, you have built relationships and interest among top talent. Once these candidates develop the necessary skills and experience your open position requires, you may formally recruit them.

Gain a competitive advantage.

A talent pipeline approach allows your firm’s hiring managers to be highly competitive. Whereas most firms lack an external talent inventory, your pipeline will equip you with higher-quality applicants and faster hiring practices. As candidates come to expect your effective and efficient hiring process, your firm will gain a competitive advantage over your talent competitors.

Solutions at Kelley HUB

We offer specific programs designed to help small businesses increase brand awareness among college students. These programs can help grow your applicant pools and make your open positions more competitive.

  • KelleyCareers: Posting your position on KelleyCareers helps student applicants to find your company. It also allows us to market job opportunities while you manage your applicant pool.
  • Micro-Internships: Kelley Micro-Internships are paid, short-term, project-based experiences that require 10 to 40 hours to complete. These projects allow companies to reduce costs, build an early talent pipeline and help students gain real-world business experience.
  • Kelley Internship Program: When you hire interns, you equip our students with the skill sets that are most important to your company. Students also learn the daily responsibilities of a full-time employee at your company.

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