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What is Talent Advisory?

Bringing Clarity to Your Recruiting and Retention Efforts

Imagine having a trusted expert in the managed recruiting and retention game who can help you navigate the ups and downs of hiring in the transportation, logistics, and supply chain industries. With our Talent Advisory Services, we blend our industry wisdom, data insights and a dash of human-centered leadership to bring some clarity to the talent strategy puzzle. Hiring is tough, but you don’t need to manage it all on your own. As the workforce evolves at lightning speed, talent remains your competitive advantage—so don’t wait to make it a priority.

The Time is Now

There is an industry-wide decline in employee engagement.

38%

Employees quit jobs within the first year of employment.
Source: Nectar

23%

Less than a quarter of supply chain employees are highly engaged today.
Source: Gartner

147%

Companies with highly engaged employees can outperform their competitors by nearly 1.5 times.
Source: Gallup

Focus Areas You Care About

Tailored to Your Business Needs

Our Talent Advisory team will conduct a thorough assessment of your business challenges and the unique needs of your organization as it relates to hiring and retaining talent. Our primary goal is to position your team for success by establishing a robust strategy and clear process for hiring. Once this solid foundation is in place, we’ll collaborate on strategies to engage and develop talent for both short and long term impact.

Talent Strategy and Recruiting

  • Talent & Employer Branding
  • Identifying Hiring Needs
  • Market Assessment & Search Preparation
  • Sourcing Talent

Talent Development and Retention

  • Company Culture
  • Employee Engagement
  • Appreciation & Recognition
  • Learning & Development

Aligning Talent Advisory Services with Business Goals

At CS Recruiting, our Talent Advisory Services are designed to complement your hiring strategy with expert insights, practical tools, and real-time engagement support. While Recruiting Services remains our primary focus, our Talent Advisory services offer a flexible and impactful way to bridge the gap between business objectives and workforce alignment.

When your company is preparing for growth, entering a new market, or refining team structure, our Talent Advisory team can support your internal efforts through workshops, coaching sessions, and custom consultations. These services are designed to bring clarity to your hiring process and empower your team to make better talent decisions.

Rather than restructuring your organization, we help define existing roles, improve job descriptions, and ensure your open positions are positioned to attract the right talent. Our approach brings hiring teams together and creates alignment across leadership, recruiting, and culture.

For example, when a logistics client introduced a new service offering, we facilitated a team workshop focused on hiring strategy and candidate positioning. The result was a shared understanding of needs, faster decision-making, and a more targeted search.

In another case, a client struggling with employee morale and retention brought us in to lead a leadership workshop focused on recognition and appreciation. Together, we redefined their talent brand and clarified what their employee value proposition needed to communicate in order to attract and retain top talent.

Our Talent Advisory Services are a natural complement to our core recruiting models, including Professional Search and Executive Recruiting. These services bring structure, clarity, and collaboration into your hiring strategy, helping you build a workforce that supports both short-term goals and long-term growth.

Using Talent Advisory Services to Navigate Market Shifts

As a specialized recruiting partner with advisory expertise, CS Recruiting provides clients with current insight from thousands of logistics and supply chain searches. This market visibility includes compensation trends, candidate behavior, title calibrations, and offer acceptance pattern, which influence how you should approach hiring today.

Instead of relying on outdated data, we offer Talent and Market Analysis reports that are customized to your needs. These reports help you level-set expectations, refine job scopes, and assess your compensation strategy with confidence. This is especially valuable in roles with high turnover or evolving skill sets.

In one recent case, we partnered with a cold chain distributor who was facing challenges filling warehouse leadership roles. Our analysis uncovered gaps between internal expectations and market realities, and we provided a data-backed recommendation that led to stronger candidate alignment and faster fills.

Talent Advisory Services at CS Recruiting are not designed to replace Human Resources. They are intended to support the HR function. Our team offers a fresh perspective grounded in industry expertise and recruiting know-how. Whether we are providing a one-time coaching session, hosting a team workshop, or delivering a market benchmarking report, we equip hiring teams with the knowledge to act quickly and strategically.

We deliver actionable insights that help you stay ahead of market shifts, supported by our Areas of Expertise and ongoing thought leadership on our Recruiting Blog. With this combination of industry perspective and practical tools, your team can hire with clarity and move forward with confidence.

Talent Advisory Services

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Personalized Coaching

Virtual and On-Site Workshops

Talent and Market Analysis

Solutions Customized To You