Talent Acquisition

Responsibly Governed

Human Resources

FY2023 Budget

Program Budget Overview

Overview of Program & Intended Outcomes:

Beginning in late 2021, Talent Acquisition supports all departments in attracting and hiring the best talent to meet their business objectives. Talent Acquisition partners with Total Rewards to attract talent by promoting the city’s competitive compensation, benefits, and lifestyle perks and by establishing strong employer brand

awareness. For 2023, the Talent Acquisition program is in the process of building a team with a focus on diversity. This team will assist hiring managers in determining an advertising strategy for open positions, provide the appropriate tools and resources to select the best candidates for the position, and assisting those individuals in successfully onboarding with the organization. Additionally, the TA team will be building talent pipelines by partnering with local schools and community organizations, participating in career fairs, and tracking our success rate with various recruitment websites and sources.


For 2023, the Talent Acquisition program proposed an enhancement and a restart of some targeted recruiting activities that have been paused since early 2020. One of the city's top priorities is the attraction and retention of key talent which can no longer rely on passive recruitment to obtain the talent needed. Additional advertising dollars budgeted for targeted recruiting and sourcing to build strong partnerships with organizations will provide a steady flow of applicants and connect to a broader and more diverse candidate pool than those individuals who would be actively looking for City of Boulder opportunities. Workday will enable us to measure and track a wide variety of metrics relating to Talent Acquisition, including: where our candidates learned about the position, the time that it takes to fill different jobs, how long we retain employees who came to us from various sources, etc. The ultimate measure of success will be fewer vacancies and faster time-to-fill rates when vacancies occur.



2023 Activities:

  • Continue to development more targeted recruiting efforts
  • Reduce duration to fill vacant positions
  • Increase employee retention