Build a Talent Acquisition Function That Keeps Getting Better
Sustainable improvement requires more than individual projects and short-term solutions. This workshop helps your team establish a clear management approach for identifying improvement opportunities, setting priorities, and translating them into focused initiatives with measurable outcomes. Using the Recruiting Excellence
Continuous Improvement Framework, you will develop a practical improvement cycle tailored to your organization. Together, we define responsibilities, milestones, review routines, and a quarterly roadmap that enables your team to manage progress systematically and continuously strengthen its Talent Acquisition performance.
Why Do This Workshop?
Most Talent Acquisition teams improve by reacting to today’s problems rather than following a structured improvement approach. This makes priorities unclear, progress difficult to measure, and improvements hard to sustain.
This workshop introduces the Recruiting Excellence Continuous Improvement Framework, teaching your team how to systematically identify opportunities, prioritize improvements, execute change, and measure progress over time.
Instead of relying on individual initiatives, you’ll learn a repeatable management approach for continuously improving your Talent Acquisition function.

What you get
Tailored Maturity Assessment Report
- Complete current-state analysis across 21 components
- Company, Team & Individual insights
- TA maturity comparison across global peers
Continuous Improvement Methodology
- Business-impact prioritization framework
- Structured improvement cycle and governance
- Practical planning and scoping templates
Continuous Improvement Framework
- Quarterly roadmap with measurable milestones
- Review cadence to measure progress
- Repeatable framework for long-term improvement
Agenda
Understand what high-performing Talent Acquisition looks like and how the Continuous Improvement Framework works.
09.00
Review your Business Assessment, identify maturity gaps, and select the highest-impact improvement opportunities.
10.30
Prioritize initiatives, create scoping cards, define quarterly milestones, and build your rolling roadmap.
13.00
Design your quarterly review cycle, ownership, scorecard, and continuous improvement rhythm.
15.00
Goal & Target Audience
This workshop is designed for Talent Acquisition teams that want to move beyond one-off improvement projects and establish a structured approach for continuously improving their function.
It is particularly relevant for:
- Heads of Talent Acquisition
- CHRO / HR Directors
- TA Team Leaders
- HR Business Partners
- Continuous Improvement or Transformation teams

The Outcome
At the end of the workshop your team understands how to continuously improve Talent Acquisition using a structured, repeatable management approach.
You leave with:
- A practical Continuous Improvement Framework tailored to your Talent Acquisition & People function.
- A quarterly improvement roadmap with measurable milestones and clear priorities.
- A structured review cycle to measure progress, adjust priorities, and sustain long-term improvement.
This positions you as a strategic Talent Acquisition leader capable of driving measurable, long-term improvement instead of reacting to operational challenges.
The Consultants

Tony de Graaf
With decades of experience across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, I’ve built and transformed high-performing Talent Acquisition teams for some of the world’s biggest companies.
I don’t just talk about Talent Acquisition – I build and implement the strategies that make hiring a competitive advantage.

Marcel Rütten
With over 15 years in HR, I have established myself as a Global TA Lead, HR blogger, podcaster, and author, contributing significantly to the evolution of recruiting, personal marketing, and employer branding in Germany.
I am passionate about transforming HR practices to create people-centric organizations supported by technology and data.
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