Discover: The Best Graduate Isn’t Always the Best Hire: How Truebeck Construction Reduced Early Career Turnover Through Smarter Campus Recruiting
1:20 pm - Thursday 3rd December 2026
- Challenging the assumption that wider recruiting reach delivers better outcomes by analyzing turnover data and identifying that more than 50% of early-career departures came from employees who had relocated from out of state
- Redesigning campus recruiting strategy around long-term retention by targeting universities closer to core markets and selectively expanding to regional out-of-state programs with stronger geographic alignment
- Aligning internship and graduate hiring more closely to workforce planning goals, improving candidate fit, strengthening engagement, and increasing return on campus recruiting investment
