Carl Kutsmode

Recruitment Optimization Specialist

Carl has over 15 years of diversified corporate HR/Staffing Management consulting experience helping senior executives and staffing leaders of rapidly growing organizations align their talent acquisition and retention practices with changing business needs.

Carl specializes in performing current state recruitment delivery model (people, process, organizational, technology & strategy) gap analysis and best practice competitive benchmarking.  Additional areas of specialty include: diversity/generational recruitment optimization, technology vendor selection advisory services and staffing or HR leadership development skills mentoring /coaching. 

Carl has worked on engagements for companies ranging in size from startups to multi-national, global organizations and has considerable expertise in the banking/insurance/financial services, Hospitality, Pharmaceutical /Biotech/Healthcare, Consumer products, Energy and Retail Merchandising industries.
 
Carl’s consulting approach is efficient and pragmatic and he has a unique ability to synthesize complex recruitment and retention challenges in order to create right fit, practical solutions that meet long term talent related business objectives.

He is a member of Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), Human Capital Institute (HCI) and a current Chicago Chapter Board Member of the Staffing Management Association (SMAGC – Formerly EMA).

Carl holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Loyola University with an emphasis in Industrial Psychology.