Transforming recruiting from soul-crushing to life-giving
Sourcing, Recruiting, Hiring and Onboarding Consultant
Does the lack of infrastructure, time, and resources for recruiting make you want to crawl back into bed? As your go-to talent partner, I'll bring strategic support for your talent needs so your organization can hire the right candidates the first time around.
Talent Services Solutions
Sourcing and recruiting for top talent takes more time, energy, and resources than ever before.
Let's take action on your highest needs for full-cycle sourcing, recruiting, and onboarding services.
- Comprehensive intake to understand business needs
- Collaborate to create a multi-pronged sourcing strategy
- Manage hiring process workflow
- Create screening and interview questions, interview matrix, and candidate evaluation
- Develop job descriptions that attract your ideal candidate and reflect desired competencies
- Proactive talent sourcing and recruitment, including initial screening calls to assess fit
- Comprehensive hiring and onboarding services
Process for Delivering Talent Services:
- Intake & Needs Assessment: In our intake call, we uncover your top needs and areas for support.
- Contracting: I'll send a Scope of Work for your review so we can get started.
- Kickoff: We establish the dynamic for our work together, clarify communication preferences, and move toward action on top priorities.
- Engagement: We meet 2x a month, 90-minute sessions, for a minimum of 3 months. If working on an active recruiting project, our check-in calls will occur weekly.
I’m Michelle Powers and I'm here to be your right-hand recruiter.
The first 15 years of my career were spent in social impact, where resources for recruiting, onboarding, and training were limited, even when there was a critical business need.
My work history gave me the boots-on-the-ground experience of what it is like as a leader to source, recruit, hire, onboard, train, develop, and support my team members with limited budgetary flexibility.
I leave no stone unturned in the talent management process and free you up to focus on other critical aspects of your job.
Relevant Education & Learning
MA, John F. Kennedy University
MBA, John F. Kennedy University
Leadership & Management Certificate, UC Berkeley Extension
Co-Active Training Institute Fundamentals of Coaching
FAQ
Questions? I got you.
Why would I need to hire you if we have an HR Director already? In hiring me as your strategic execution partner, you get to benefit from my education and expericne without the full-time commitment or the high costs associated with hiring another full-time team member internally. Most importantly, many HR Directors are significantly overworked and pulled between competing priorities for everything related to HR, Talent, Employee Engagement, Benefits, etc. My role is to lighten their load.
What are your qualifications in the talent space? In addition to 20+ years of progressively challenging experience as a leader, manager, teacher, and consultant in the social impact space, I've also had the privilege of working in Executive Search. My MA/MBA and certificate in Leadership and Management from UC Berkeley Extension also support my lived experience and hands-on work.
I'm an HR Director - what can you do for me and my department? Glad you asked! I bring to the table talent lifecycle experience, particuarly in candidate sourcing, recruiting, hiring, and onboarding. I devise full-service recruiting strategy that you can execute on with your team OR, we can get really granular and I can execute all aspects of your search from intake to placement. Along the way, I provide helpful updates, align with stakeholders, and ensure candidates have a stellar experience.