Recruitment Strategy
Define target talent profiles, strengthen employer branding, build university and community partnerships, and create an organized recruiting calendar.
Early Career & Emerging Talent
Build a stronger talent pipeline from first impression to long-term growth.
Dillingham Consulting helps organizations design and strengthen early career programs that attract high-potential talent, accelerate development, and create meaningful pathways into the organization. From recruitment strategy and compensation design to onboarding, curriculum, mentoring, and program experiences, we bring every element together into one cohesive talent solution.
Proven Enterprise Experience
$12MCombined Learning & Development and Early Careers portfolio directed
100%Increase in Early Career hiring
40%Expansion in qualified candidate pipelines
10,000 to 14,000+Growth in the candidate pool through employer branding and targeted recruiting
These results reflect Geynille Conover's most recent Enterprise Learning & Development and Early Careers leadership experience in her last corporate role.
End-to-End Program Design
More than a recruiting program, a complete early talent experience.
Successful early career programs do more than fill entry-level positions. They connect workforce planning, talent attraction, structured development, manager involvement, employee experience, and long-term retention. Dillingham Consulting helps organizations create an integrated program that supports participants from their first interaction with the employer through their transition into confident, contributing professionals.
Consistent Selection
Develop competency-based criteria, interview guides, assessment practices, and equitable candidate evaluation processes.
Orientation & Onboarding
Create engaging in-person, virtual, or hybrid orientation experiences that prepare participants, managers, mentors, and teams for a successful start.
Structured Learning
Deliver a purposeful curriculum that strengthens business knowledge, professional skills, workplace confidence, and career readiness.
Mentors, Buddies & Networks
Build meaningful relationships through mentors, peer buddies, subject-matter experts, leaders, and cohort-based experiences.
Projects & Business Exposure
Provide meaningful assignments, shadowing opportunities, team events, presentations, and exposure to different functions and career paths.
Compensation & Incentives
Establish fair, competitive, and internally consistent salary and bonus structures aligned with program goals and participant contributions.
Program Evaluation
Track hiring, participation, engagement, manager feedback, conversion, retention, and other outcomes that demonstrate program effectiveness.
Program Solutions
Programs designed for interns and full-time early career talent.
Summer Internship Programs
Create a structured internship experience that gives participants meaningful work, professional development, organizational exposure, and a clear understanding of future career opportunities.
- Recruitment strategy and annual hiring calendar
- University and community partnerships
- Competency-based interviews and selection
- Offer, preboarding, and participant communications
- Comprehensive in-person, virtual, or hybrid orientation
- Meaningful projects and defined learning objectives
- Job-shadowing and cross-functional exposure
- Monthly development sessions
- Guest subject-matter expert speakers
- Mentors and peer buddies
- Leader engagement and networking
- Team-building and social events
- Manager guides and support resources
- Capstone presentations or final projects
- Performance feedback
- Full-time conversion strategy
- Program evaluation and participant surveys
Full-Time Early Career Development Programs
Accelerate the transition from student or recent graduate to capable professional through structured learning, business exposure, relationship-building, and ongoing development.
- Cohort-based onboarding
- Role-specific learning plans
- Monthly continuing-education sessions
- Guest subject-matter expert speakers
- Mentoring and peer-buddy programs
- Business and industry education
- Professional and soft-skills development
- Project-based learning
- Job-shadowing opportunities
- Cross-functional or rotational exposure
- Career-development conversations
- Manager expectations and enablement
- Performance milestones
- Networking and leadership visibility
- Fair salary and bonus structures
- Engagement, retention, and advancement measurement
What We Can Build
Every component needed for a connected early career strategy.
Workforce & Program Strategy
Clarify business needs, target roles, hiring goals, program scope, timelines, ownership, governance, and measures of success.
Talent Attraction & Recruiting
Build sourcing strategies, university partnerships, recruiting campaigns, employer-brand messaging, selection processes, and candidate communications.
Curriculum Development
Create structured learning experiences that combine business knowledge, professional skills, career development, and practical application.
Orientation & Onboarding
Design comprehensive in-person, virtual, or hybrid experiences that create connection, clarity, and readiness from day one.
Mentoring & Peer Support
Establish mentor and peer-buddy structures with clear expectations, guides, conversation prompts, and ongoing support.
Projects & Career Exposure
Develop meaningful projects, job-shadowing opportunities, presentations, rotations, and exposure to leaders and subject-matter experts.
Compensation Design
Create fair and competitive salary and bonus structures that support consistency, internal equity, attraction, and retention.
Measurement & Improvement
Develop surveys, scorecards, reporting, and feedback processes to evaluate outcomes and continuously strengthen the program.
Curriculum & Continued Development
Learning that continues beyond orientation.
Early career talent needs more than a strong first day. Dillingham Consulting develops structured learning journeys that continue throughout the internship or development program. Monthly sessions can combine business education, professional skills, career development, and direct access to leaders and subject-matter experts.
- Understanding the organization and industry
- Workplace communication and professional presence
- Building effective relationships and networks
- Receiving and applying feedback
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Time management and accountability
- Collaboration across generations and teams
- Problem-solving and critical thinking
- Career ownership and goal setting
- Responsible use of artificial intelligence
- Preparing for performance conversations
- Transitioning from intern to full-time employee
Programs can include live workshops, virtual learning, guest speakers, manager-led discussions, peer activities, business projects, and self-directed resources.
Connection at Every Level
A support network designed into the program.
Manager
Provides role clarity, performance feedback, meaningful work, coaching, and day-to-day support.
Mentor
Offers broader career perspective, organizational guidance, professional encouragement, and exposure beyond the participant's immediate team.
Peer Buddy
Helps the participant navigate everyday questions, workplace norms, relationships, and the transition into the organization.
Program Team
Coordinates communications, learning, events, resources, issue resolution, and the overall participant experience.
Clear responsibilities, practical guides, scheduled touchpoints, and consistent communication help each member of the support network contribute to the participant's success.
Flexible Partnership
Start from the ground up or strengthen what already exists.
Build
Build a New Program
Design a complete internship or full-time early career program, including strategy, structure, recruitment, curriculum, participant experience, compensation, and measurement.
Redesign
Redesign an Existing Program
Evaluate the current experience, identify gaps, improve consistency, and introduce stronger development, manager support, and program governance.
Enhance
Enhance a Specific Component
Receive targeted support with recruiting, curriculum, orientation, mentoring, compensation, program communications, events, surveys, or measurement.
Let's build it
Ready to build your next generation of talent?
Whether you are launching your first internship program, redesigning an existing experience, or creating a full-time development program, Dillingham Consulting can help you build a scalable solution aligned with your workforce and business goals.