Adela Schoolderman
Manager, Talent AcquisitionEdwards Lifesciences
Adela Schoolderman is a Talent Acquisition leader with 15 years’ experience, and a Masters in Human Resource Management; spanning medical devices, management consulting, technology, retail, and financial services industries. The common denominator seems to be that her roles always involve hiring employees who lead cutting edge technologies and business transformations. Adela co-wrote Candidate Experience: How to Improve Talent Acquisition to Drive Business Performance with Kevin W. Grossman of the Talent Board. They also built out special programs together, through the Talent Board, to help companies improve their candidate experience, and also designed a learning program together in partnership with HR.com.
In her spare time Adela loves exploring the great outdoors, especially in the Northwest, with her husband and seven rescue dogs with special needs. When she is not exploring outdoors you will find her preparing for and participating in fitness competitions, doing DIY home projects, or writing.
12:30 –1:00 PM PDT —
Talent acquisition is more than just recruiting and hiring. It's also about how positive or negative job candidates feel about their recruiting experience and ultimately how they perceive the business and the brand. For those who aren't hired, which is most for any given job, it's the difference between candidates applying again or not, referring others or not, being a brand advocate or not, and for consumer-based businesses, being a customer or not.
Excelling at recruitment and helping the business thrive in a post-Covid world means delivering a stellar candidate experience. During this informative TA week session, Talent Board president Kevin W. Grossman and Edwards Lifesciences TA manager Adela Schoolderman will share insights and best practices from their candidate experience book as well as current CandE benchmark research data on the benefits of improving the recruiting process and candidate experience.
Key takeaways include:
What talent acquisition teams can do to improve candidate communication and feedback loops throughout the recruiting cycle
How sustaining candidate experience improvements year after year can ensure your employer brand equity pays out in referrals and revenue
How improving TA processes and optimizing recruiting tech stacks ultimately drive business performance