As the Director of Content Strategy at SocialTalent, Holly Fawcett is a passionate advocate for hiring excellence and talent acquisition best practices. With a wealth of experience consulting for some of the world’s largest organisations, Holly has played a pivotal role in transforming talent acquisition strategies and empowering recruiters globally. Through her work at SocialTalent, Holly has trained tens of thousands of recruiters on topics close to her heart, including continuous development, fostering high-performance cultures, driving diversity and inclusion, and mastering the art of interviewing. Her current focus is an ambitious global project to measure and benchmark the hiring capabilities of recruiters worldwide, with a vision of making every organisation an extraordinary place to work. Holly is a thought leader with a deep commitment to elevating the standards of talent acquisition, always eager to share actionable insights and inspire meaningful change.
In today’s competitive talent market, the relationship between recruiters and hiring managers must evolve beyond task efficiency. True hiring excellence emerges when recruiters position themselves as strategic partners, working alongside hiring managers to achieve organisational goals. This keynote will explore how to transform the recruiter-hiring manager dynamic by focusing on partnership, insights, and outcomes.
Learn how to:
Position Yourself as a Strategic Partner: Move beyond simply responding to hiring manager requests by establishing yourself as an equal collaborator. Discover techniques to align your roles to the organisation's ultimate goal: hiring the best talent.
Coach Hiring Managers to Success: Recognise that recruiting is not their full-time job—and empower hiring managers with market insights, best practices, and guidance to navigate the hiring process effectively.
Achieve Hiring Excellence: Introduce the SocialTalent Hiring Excellence Maturity Model, which identifies five stages of organisational hiring maturity, from reactive, ad-hoc recruiting to a culture where hiring is a competitive advantage embraced by the C-suite.
