Talentstar

Talentstar

Services

Talent Acquisition

Talent acquisition is a vehicle that enables an organization to achieve its strategic goals by extending its talent resource base — not just quantitatively, but qualitatively as well. It might involve identification and recruitment of an individual, or identification of firms for potential merger or acquisition.

Roles and Responsibilities

A design firm is an ecosystem based on culture, values, and belief, as well as the talent that creates its foundation. The ecosystem depends on effective systems and processes, including a process for development of roles, responsibilities, expectations, and boundaries.

Talent Development

Successful practices are not only able to attract the right people to their firms, but to provide opportunities for growth and recognition within the framework of successful performance. Roles and responsibilities, as well as performance evaluations, should be linked to carefully crafted training, coaching, and mentoring programs.

Practice Development

How do you measure success? Long-term success is dependent on development of a chain of values that links your firm leaders, your employees, and your clients.

Leadership Succession

What are your criteria for future leaders and owners? For most firm leaders, the ultimate goal is to ensure the sustainability of your practice. By understanding the characteristics of the talent who will succeed within your firm, and by creating a pathway for growth and development, you are also creating a mechanism to attain sustainability.

Extension of Networks and Collaborators

As true talent advocates, we are constantly on the lookout for ways to bring our clients together and help them extend their reach for creative alliances and opportunities. Since we are active within the design field, we are able to build professional relationships with a broad range of key collaborators in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and planning.


WHAT WE DO

Since recruiting is the most outwardly visible service that we provide, we are probably best known as talent scouts within the design field. 

We believe that successful recruiting is dependent on the integration of talent and practice strategies within the context of competitive advantage.

We offer a sequence of services to help our clients achieve their practice objectives.


The Build Business Interview:
Questions for Marjanne Pearson
by Matt Handal


"Someone told me Marjanne Pearson is a superstar recruiter who knows everybody in the industry. But when you talk to her, you quickly learn she is more than that: Marjanne helps A/E/C firms envision what they want to become and then finds the people they'll need to make that evolutionary step. And her journey into that role is quite fascinating."

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EXPLORE OPPORTUNITY

Gensler is seeking candidates for two leadership positions: an Architectural Project Director, based in Chicago, and a Director of Talent & Human Resource Strategy, based in Washington DC.

NEWS AND VIEWS

Check our Help Desk for help with your job search, and find more information on our Posterous blogs:
Talentstar » Explore opportunity
Next Moon » Strategy by design

SOUND ADVICE

Find information and ideas that will help you achieve success for yourself and your practice:
Next Moon » Strategy by design.
Collaboration » Write, teach, and testify.