Designing world-class early talent programs Making work ‘work’

Is your graduate or early talent program delivering long-term value? In this episode, Laura Manescu, Senior Talent Strategy Consultant at Mercer Workforce Solutions, Fiona Herron, Senior Manager of Graduate Programs at Commonwealth Bank, and Phil Harrington, Leader of Mercer’s Talent Assessment Business, talk about trends and best practices that will help you bring talent in early and develop and nurture them through your organisation.

In this conversation, they talk about the challenges and opportunities for hybrid work in recruiting and developing early talent, the evolution of assessment practices, assessing for skills, aligning graduate programs with broader HR strategy, using the recruitment process to make strides in DEI, personalising the candidate experience, using data beyond the point of hire, getting candidates excited about your offer, and more.

Visit the podcast page for the episode’s transcript, references and resources https://www.mercer.com.au/our-thinking/workforce/podcast-making-work-work.html