Event Details

The Recruiting Blueprint is a high-impact, workshop designed for HR professionals, recruiters, and talent acquisition teams ready to elevate their hiring process and attract the right candidates who stay and thrive. This session blends modern strategies, data-driven insights, and AI-enhanced tools to help you rethink your approach to recruiting from the ground up. You’ll learn how to align your talent acquisition efforts with your company’s goals, create a magnetic employer brand, source smarter, and design a candidate experience that leaves a lasting impression — all while supporting retention from day one.

By the end of The Recruiting Blueprint: Modern Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Talent, participants will be able to:

1. Design a strategic recruiting plan aligned with business goals and organizational culture.
2. Define and strengthen their Employer Value Proposition (EVP) to attract values-aligned candidates.
3. Identify and implement modern sourcing techniques across platforms, including passive and niche talent pools.
4. Evaluate and integrate AI tools to streamline sourcing, screening, and communication without compromising candidate experience.
5. Enhance the candidate journey to reduce ghosting, improve engagement, and increase offer acceptance.
6. Track and analyze key recruitment metrics (time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, conversion rates) to continuously improve talent acquisition outcomes.
7. Apply a “recruit-to-retain” mindset by aligning hiring practices with long-term employee success.

SPEAKER: Tressa Manns, CEO and Owner- Convicted to Grow Coaching LLC

Tressa Manns is an enthusiastic and dynamic certified motivational speaker, business coach, facilitator, and self published author who specializes in fostering leadership skills, building resilience, boosting confidence, women empowerment, and business development. With over 25 years of experience in empowerment speaking, corporate leadership, recruiting, business and confidence coaching, Tressa has a proven track record of contributing to organizational success and substantial growth.

Tresa excels in empowering professionals and leaders to discover their purpose, set achievable goals, cultivate confidence, and overcome challenges.As a dedicated advocate for growth,  Tressa firmly believes in the boundless potential within every individual, asserting that everyone deserves equal opportunities to flourish. Serving as the CEO of Convicted to Grow Coaching LLC in the DC Metropolitan area, Tressa offers coaching programs and workshops focused on personal growth and professional development in areas such as career planning, leadership, staffing, business development for small businesses, and entrepreneurship.