Name: Talent Leaders Dinner: Soft Skills, Hard Results – The ROI of Connection
Start: 2026-04-14T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-14T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Capital Grille - Rockefeller Center

$Talent Leaders Dinner: Soft Skills, Hard Results \u2013 The ROI of Connection$

Join TA & HR leaders to explore how soft skills drive hiring quality, candidate experience, retention, and measurable business ROI
About this Event

Join TA & HR leaders to explore how soft skills drive hiring quality, candidate experience, retention, and measurable business ROI.

Main Themes:

Defining Critical Soft Skills: Identifying the human capabilities—communication, adaptability, collaboration, leadership—that matter most in today’s workforce.
How Skills Are Evolving in an AI-Enabled Workplace: Exploring how the capabilities organizations once prioritized are shifting as AI and new technologies reshape work, and what that means for how talent teams identify, assess, and validate skills.
Return on Talent Investment: Moving beyond traditional TA metrics to understand how hiring for the right skills drives measurable outcomes like performance, retention, productivity, and long-term business value.
Proving ROI in Talent Acquisition: Connecting soft skills assessment to measurable TA outcomes like reduced mis-hires, faster time-to-productivity, and stronger employer brand.

Why You Should Attend:

Exchange ideas on the current, and future, Talent Acquisition landscape
Expand your peer network within the Chicago Talent Acquisition community
Address the current pain points in recruitment practices and gain foresight to adapt and innovate ahead of the curve.

This event is designed for Senior Talent Acquisition & HR Leaders only. Those who do not fit this job profile will cancelled from the event.

Secure your space now, and we will send a calendar appointment to reserve your space.