Corporate Recruitment Partnering

Putnam/Travers partners with Corporate Recruiting departments to elevate their recruiting productivity by consulting on strategy, process, and today’s best software and internet based recruiting tools. Putnam can also provide its own professional Recruiters, whom join the client’s in-house team, sharply increasing the quality and speed of hiring during a growth phase. Client firms often increase recruiting activity for limited periods of time to suit their business cycles or growth phases, but prefer not to hire their own permanent Recruiters, knowing the high volume recruitment will ultimately slow down. Our firm provides professional, experienced recruiting specialists to assist these clients during such growth periods. We are presently advising many Fortune 1000 firms on today’s most effective recruitment strategies, while also contributing to the bottom line results of small and mid-sized firms that are growing quickly, on both domestic and international fronts.

Campus Recruiting Programs

If you’re not competing for this year’s brightest graduates, your firm is at a major disadvantage. The 80/20 rule states that the best 20% of employees affect 80% of work success. To thrive or even survive, you need your share of that top 20%. Being on the right campuses, at the right times, with the right message, we’ll ensure your firm obtains a higher percentage of these highest quality employees. Firms that don’t have a compelling campus presence, will have to settle for the remaining graduates, and will find themselves lacking impactful leaders in the future.

Putnam/Travers can leverage its exceptional relationships on campus to deliver the results you need. Discuss the skill and knowledge sets you need with us, and from there, we can immediately recommend which business school or undergraduate program will offer the best candidate pool for your specific needs. We’ll partner with our contacts in the Placement Offices to interview and select the very best candidates for your unique environment and positions. We’ll arrange all interviews and advance those candidates that have the potential to positively impact your firm and truly perform in their new role.

We’ve spent considerable time as on-site recruiting consultants for global investment banks and management consulting firms. As a result of this experience, we offer strong relationships at universities such as the Wharton School, Columbia University, New York University, and many, many more across the nation and abroad. Each university program has a different curriculum and attracts different students. Each university’s student body acquires different strengths and skills relative to others. Every learning institution has its own particular recruiting rules, procedures, dates and process difficulties. Put our successful relationships, talent assessment strategies, and campus experience to work for you.

How do firms compete with investment banks, consulting firms, and high technology growth companies when their Human Resources department is already overburdened and doesn’t have a significant campus recruiting program in place? HR departments are budgeted very, very tightly in terms of time and money and almost always leave too little time to properly identify, attract and acquire exceptional talent on campus. Putnam/Travers consults to these very departments and we know first-hand how strategic recruiting is overshadowed and how results can be compromised.

Traditional (OCR) On Campus Recruiting Program

  • Advertise your firm’s business, career platforms and specific job opportunity to the right students via university intra-net, print media, career center bulletin boards, guidance counselors, student leaders, student clubs and associations, etc.
  • Carefully analyze, compare, and rank all student resumes.
  • Pre-select students to be interviewed, based on properly weighted skill criteria.
  • Coordinate with University Career Center to arrange one all-day interview session.
  • Manage all transportation, lodging and other logistics for a small number of students invited for ‘second round’ interviews at your firm’s location.
  • Communicate the universities’ varying mandatory policies and timeframes regarding offers and “exploding offers”.

 

Customized (OCR) On Campus Recruiting Program

Custom events usually entail one or more of the following components, and are designed to create an enjoyable, educational, influential and memorable experience for the students and speaker(s). This shared educational experience is intended to differentiate your firm’s message from competitors’ lectures and brochures. The program may include: Employer Information Sessions, Networking Socials, Sponsored Learning Events, Digital Media Presentations, Company tours (either via DVD virtual tour or physical visit to your offices), et al.