Resourcing | Heineken's Global Head of Talent Acquisition on mid-career retention

Anecdotally, it feels like employers have to work a lot harder to get the talent they need these days – the oft-cited war for talent is just always there. 

Additionally, HR Grapevine has spoken with recruiters, both in-house and on the agency side, who experience first-hand increasing candidate demands for different challenges in their career, the ability to learn new skills, operate in a different function, and find new purpose.

HEINEKEN are one big employer having to recruit on this landscape. To find out how to forge an employer brand to catch the best talent, how to focus on mid-career talent and what non-linear careers mean for business, we caught up with Ben Clark, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, HEINEKEN – who also revealed why they’ve created a programme for this.

What is the Go Places programme? How does this tie into business issues?