We transform how companies attract and engage their people.
Think of us as your rapid-response team – a mix of seasoned recruitment experts and researchers, marketers and strategists, technologists and data scientists – to help improve the way talent acquisition work gets done. This translates into better talent attraction, brand and culture fit, and lots of high-quality engagement – but just so we’re clear, our business model is not based on “high-fee” recruiting. what??!
Strategic Consulting
We help you align talent strategy with business goals, seize opportunities for improving talent acquisition, and define roadmaps to get you there.
Data & Analytics
We help you understand candidates and employees by collecting, organizing and optimizing data into insights you can use to drive long-lasting value.
Talent Technology
We help you choose, implement and maintain talent acquisition technology platforms and tools to stay current with ever-changing environments.
Agency Services
We combine technology and real people with hard-hitting marketing, scalable support programs, and flexible services to serve in-house teams.
Our Capabilities
TalentSum is a true business consultancy that brings a unique combination of deep domain expertise and core consulting capabilities to address your biggest challenges all across the talent acquisition landscape.
1: Talent Data & Strategy
Envision and design a clear strategy and build a roadmap to a better future. Collect and analyze data to understand culture and fit, who your true candidates are, what they need, and how they come in and experience your organization.
2 : Brand Activation
Translate data insights from employees and candidates to create a strategic employer brand and compelling value proposition. Identify your target audiences and develop a consistent and reliable messaging framework.
3 : Recruitment Marketing
Communicate and connect your employer brand and proposition. Share your organization and engage with candidates using best practices in recruitment marketing.
4 : Strategic Sourcing and Pipeline Development
Free your in-house team to be ready for what comes next. Identify great talent, gather intel from potential candidates, engage and build relationships, shortlist candidates, build pipelines of talent and more.
5 : Recruitment and Hiring Optimization
Achieve optimization of related systems and processes. Leverage best practice knowledge and expertise to design and build out your front-to-back approach.
6 : Technology and Tool Implementation
Choose, implement and maintain hundreds of useful talent acquisition and HR technologies and tools used to analyze, brand, engage, source, recruit, hire and on-board.
Why turn to TalentSum?
We’ve been in your shoes – We have real hands-on experience where Talent Acquisition, Marketing and Technology collide – on both the corporate side and the agency side. Our deep and wide experience provides us a comprehensive view of talent acquisition business models, recruiting trends, marketing-centric approaches, market indicators, and new technology developments – and we use all of this to help clients make the best informed decisions that will succeed in today’s marketplace.
We have the right experience – We are experienced in virtually all aspects of talent acquisition, including: talent strategy, data analysis, employer branding, recruitment marketing, strategic sourcing, recruitment and hiring optimization, and on-boarding. We also have business experience across marketing, technology and operations. We’ve not only helped others build up their organizations, but we’ve built up a few of our own.
We are different in a good way – In today’s competitive environment, companies increasingly must real chops across data analysis, talent marketing, technology, sourcing and more to succeed. We’re Data-heads. Strategists. Marketers. Journalists. Researchers. Technologists. Innovators. And we’re ready to help you be great all across the talent acquisition landscape.
We are very very discrete – The work we do requires discretion and confidentiality. We strive for the highest standards in all our work, and believe our clients have come to respect and trust our ability to handle sensitive and important challenges. We know the difference between the practices we can share with others and the “secret sauce” that you want to keep as your own.