Antoinette King at Options Consulting Solutions (OCS), a boutique recruitment and executive search firm, offers a look into talent acquisition, management, and retention insights and processes. Antoinette is the Founder and Managing Partner at OCS, and offers her expertise gained from over 30 years of recruitment experience and leading the firm’s business operations. Taking a consultative approach and being a partner for clients and acting as a mentor and guide to candidates, her career has been spent dedicated to fully understanding business needs, company culture, and individual wants and needs. 

People are the most important asset in any organization, and it’s integral to know the biggest challenges in the labour market and current trends, understand the multi-generational talent pool and the characteristics and motivators for each group, where and how to find top talent recognize and eliminate common biases often present in the hiring process, discover strategies to boost attracting and retaining talent, explore an overview of best practices for interviewing and onboarding, and more. 

These insights will be shared from a perspective of enhancing inclusivity in the workforce and tailoring strategies for optimized hiring practices and processes. We will investigate common challenges and questions faced by OCS clients and the practices followed or suggested by OCS. The core message of the discussion asserts the importance of the human in human resources by taking a personal approach to talent acquisition, management, and retention that also emphasizes inclusion in the workforce and the recruitment space.