As our indigenous business expands, it's imperative to craft a robust talent recruitment strategy aligned with our organizational values and goals. In this project, students will spearhead the creation of a comprehensive model for talent acquisition that celebrates diversity, fosters inclusion, and addresses the unique challenges faced by indigenous peoples.

Tasks include:

1. Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with current employees, indigenous business leadership and management to discern the specific needs and challenges of our organization regarding talent acquisition within our community.
2. Market Research: Conduct extensive research into Indigenous talent recruitment strategies tailored to indigenous peoples, focusing on approaches that prioritize cultural sensitivity, inclusivity, and community engagement.
3. Strategy Development: Develop a multifaceted recruitment strategy that leverages traditional and modern recruitment channels while emphasizing our commitment to indigenous values, culture, and community.
4. Rollout Plan: Create a detailed rollout plan outlining how our organization will implement the new talent recruitment strategy, including timelines, resource allocation, and key performance indicators for success.
5. Decision Matrix: Utilize a weighted decision matrix to evaluate and select recruitment methods based on criteria such as cultural alignment, effectiveness in reaching target demographics, scalability, inclusivity, and cost-efficiency.

By the end of the project, students should complete the following list of activities (this is basically a retelling of the steps above):

• Conducted research by speaking to company staff to determine needs and challenges of our current recruitment management system.
• Completed research online to determine a recruitment strategy applicable to the business
• Created an execution plan of the recruitment strategy
• Compiled a final report with data, research findings, and the execution plan.

Final deliverables should include:

• A final report outlining research conducted, optimal recruitment strategy, execution plan including considerations of adopting the new system.
• A 20-minute presentation explaining all findings in the report.

Students will connect directly with us for mentorship throughout the project. We will be able to provide answers to questions such as:

• What are the main challenges we are having with finding indigenous staff?
• What aspects of our current recruitment strategy works well? Which need the most improvement?
• How much money do we have to implement this strategy?
• Input on choices, problems or anything else the students might encounter.