Customized Relocation Experience
When it comes to relocation, we support not just the new candidate you hired, but their entire family. Using a confidential assessment, we ask about the spouse/partner and children, and the special needs, hobbies, interests, and more. This personalized approach helps new hires integrate seamlessly into their new community.
Pre-hire Consultation
Pre-hire consultation for prospective employees designed to understand the applicant on a personal level, provide information on the surrounding area, and give guidance regarding any identified concerns.
Dual Career Support
Dual career support for accompanying spouses or partners of a new hire through personalized career action plans that leverage a network of partners and members within the community.
Community Transition
Community transition assistance designed to connect the employee and their family to their new hometown as it relates to their practical needs, hobbies, and social goals.
Cultural Transition
Cultural transition for new hires unfamiliar with local and national traditions and practices.
A confidential assessment is completed by the new employee and a customized Community Transition plan is developed from it that leverages a network of local resources and is aimed at connecting the family to the community.
Community Connecting & Acclimation
From finding realtors, to primary care doctors and specialty physicians, to visiting prospective schools, Talent-Connect serves as an extension to the employer’s efforts to integrate the new hire into the organization by helping them and their family also integrate into the new community they now call home.
There are a variety of scenarios that would inhibit someone from relocating, even if the position offered to them is their dream job. Perhaps they have aging parents under their care, and they need to be certain that local resources are in place to support them. Or perhaps they practice a religion and are unwilling to relocate to a city that lacks a local house of worship for them.
These are conversations that are inappropriate to have at the workplace with your hiring team, yet they greatly influence your candidate's decision in accepting or declining your offer of employment. At Talent-Connect, we can set them at ease by addressing these concerns, and providing the answers they are searching for.
Dual Career Support
We help the spouse of the candidate you just hired find work. We call this process dual career support. We focus on the spouse or partner by connecting them with leading executives from major organizations in the surrounding area.
While a change in employment may be a great move professionally, there’s usually family for the applicant to consider as well, especially when it means moving them away from their hometown and their partner’s own career. It can seem overwhelming to expect that a spouse or partner will quickly find meaningful work in a new geographic area with no connections there to leverage.
That’s where we step in! As your local resource, we’re here to help a loved one make those connections through our broad network of partners, members and sponsors.
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Dual career support for an accompanying spouse or partner includes:
A customized career action plan based on their specific career goals,
Insight and guidance into the local job market as they explore their own career development
Opportunities to network with local executives which creates connections they might not otherwise have
So what if the spouse or partner of a faculty applicant also requires a faculty position?
Often a highly qualified faculty applicant has a spouse or partner also employed in higher education but the hiring institution simply doesn’t have a second position designed for their loved one’s skill set as well. Talent-Connect’s relationships with leading colleges and universities throughout the I-95 corridor allows both family members to explore academic opportunities in tandem and experience the same customized dual career support, just focused on faculty opportunities in the surrounding areas.
Competitive Recruiting Edge
When a company or higher education institution partners with Talent-Connect, they’re able to offer their prospective employee a benefit unique to their own personal situation through dual career support. Since most new hires are part of a dual-income household, easing the stress of career uncertainty for their accompanying spouse or partner yields a noticeable competitive recruiting edge. The hiring organization also benefits with better retention rates through the investment in the loved one’s career growth thanks to Talent-Connect’s network of professionals working to acclimate them to the new professional community quickly.