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America Back to Work: Brien Convery
Recruiting and Retaining Newly Graduated Professionals
In this week’s episode of America Back to Work, host Arnette Heintze sits down with Brien Convery, a seasoned talent acquisition professional.
Brien has passionately focused on recruiting young professionals and has founded the podcast “Coffee with Convery” to give students a platform to share their experiences and insights into transitioning from school to the working world.
Arnette and Brien explore the challenges and opportunities in campus recruiting, delve into the unique characteristics and needs of Gen Z professionals, and discuss how employers can effectively engage with this emerging talent pool.
Brien sheds light on employers’ misconceptions about new professionals, the risks and benefits of hiring them, and what it takes to truly stand out as an employer in today’s competitive job market.
America Back to Work Highlights
- Shifts in Campus Recruiting: How the landscape of campus recruiting has evolved over the years and the increasing importance of engaging with young talent.
- Understanding Gen Z: Insights into Gen Z’s mentality, passion for change, and unique way of processing information.
- Challenges Small and Medium Businesses Face: Small companies face difficulties engaging with campus talent compared to larger enterprises.
- Humanizing the Recruitment Process: Brien advises hiring managers on building meaningful connections with young candidates.
- Student Engagement Best Practices: Effective strategies for pre-onboarding, orientation, and ongoing engagement with student hires.
- Networking and Its Importance: The pivotal role of networking in job seeking and how young professionals can leverage it.
Key Takeaways
- Hire for Potential: Focus on young candidates’ human skills and potential rather than strict qualifications or experience.
- Meaningful Engagement: Maintain communication with students between their hiring and start date to keep them engaged.
- Leverage Diversity: Utilize employee resource groups to foster an inclusive and supportive work environment.
- Innovative Approaches: Think creatively about how to appeal to young talent, especially if you are a small or medium enterprise competing with larger brands.
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S2Verify is one of the leading, privately held, pre-employment background screening companies in the United States.
Arnette Heintze is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at S2Verify. Before establishing S2Verify, Arnette spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
He served more than 20 years in the United States Secret Service as a special agent and senior executive where he planned, designed, and implemented security strategies to protect U.S. Presidents, world leaders, events of national significance, and our nation’s most sensitive assets, including financial infrastructure.
After retiring from the Secret Service, Arnette focused on building growth and performance of innovative start-ups and SMBs. In 2004, he established Hillard Heintze, a globally recognized strategic security risk management and investigations firm. In 2009, along with Bill Whitford and Jim Zimbardi, Arnette established S2Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.