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The Pillars of an Award-Winning Program
Hannaford Supermarkets was selected as a 2024 Campus Forward Award Winner for their unwavering commitment to seeking out and hiring early career talent and investments in nurturing and retaining the next generation of diverse talent. Please see below for the highlights of their approach to early career recruitment.
Standout Candidate Experience
Hannaford Supermarkets cares about their candidates like they're their own employees, and pride themselves on going above and beyond to assist in their early career journey. As such, Hannaford offers multiple opportunities for candidates to engage with past program participants as well as program leaders prior to a final interviews and selection. This helps to ensure that not only Hannaford Supermarkets and the role are a fit, but most importantly the culture and the environment are also a good fit for the individual.
Innovative Use of Technology
Hannaford is leveraging technology with their new applicant tracking system to funnel candidates and provide automated real time responses and one-on-one interaction through the tool. It also allows Hannaford to have affinity groups that candidates can join so if the company has roles in fields of interest, the team can reach out to them. Hannaford also has a variety of other digital platforms and partners that assist the team with targeted outreach to students that have similar interests or are looking to work in the specific geographic location which again allows the team to be very deliberate and specific with those they are targeting and reaching out to.
Impactful Internship Program
Hannaford's internship program is impactful for early career talent because they give interns and early career professionals exposure to the entire organization. Hannaford gives them support not only to grow and develop professionally but also personally to become the leader and the individual they want to be. Hannaford has a variety of intentional leadership development offerings they do for their interns as well as have a catalog of ad hoc opportunities for engagement and upskilling that they can choose to take advantage of while being paid. The focus of Hannaford's internships is to provide a real-world experience and opportunities to solve business challenges while learning what it is like to become a young adult in a professional setting.