Description:

Attracting talent has become the top business challenge for most construction firms. Now, it is more important than ever for senior leaders and their hiring managers to learn best practices for attracting and hiring top performers. In this session, we will discuss how people’s attitudes and behaviors have changed when it comes to career moves. Gaining a better understanding of these dynamics helps improve your hiring success. We will cover hiring processes and practical strategies to successfully attract and get top talent hired in this environment.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain perspective on candidate attitudes and behaviors in this current environment

• Examine motivators of top performers, and how to find them

• Discover the underlying reasons job ads may not generate results

• Understand how your employer brand makes, or can break, hiring success

• Gain tips to prevent declined offers that waste company time and money

Presenter: Kathy Cole

Kathy Cole, is Founder and President of DK Cole Company, a firm specializing in retained, construction recruiting. Founded in 2006, DK Cole Company has teams in the Chicago area, as well as Tennessee and North Carolina, and serves clients nationwide.  Kathy’s background includes more than 25 years of construction recruiting, and she has been a speaker at various construction trade association events around the country, including regional and national CFMA conferences. She is a member of both the Middle Tennessee and Chicago Chapters of CFMA, and she’s a Past President of the Chicago Chapter.  She currently serves on CFMA’s National Executive Committee and is also Chair of the National Association of Executive Recruiters. She holds a BS in Communications from Middle Tennessee State University and is a Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC).