Caliber Collision, a national leader in automotive repair services with over 30,000 employees wanted to scale their high-volume hiring while maintaining a world-class candidate experience. To meet increasing labor demands, Caliber partnered with NXTThing RPO to redesign its Talent Acquisition strategy, integrating technology, analytics, and recruitment expertise to streamline hiring processes across its nationwide locations. Through this partnership, Caliber implemented automation, real-time analytics, and a blended recruitment model, enabling them to fill thousands of skilled trade roles faster, reduce hiring bottlenecks, and improve retention. By combining internal expertise with RPO support, they optimized sourcing, recruitment marketing, and compliance while ensuring a candidate-first approach remained at the heart of their strategy.
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Overview
NXTThing RPO is a leading recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider dedicated to transforming the hiring journey with innovative, candidate-centric solutions. We partner with organizations to streamline talent acquisition, leveraging advanced technology, scalable strategies, and human expertise to deliver exceptional hiring results. Our approach blends automation and AI-driven efficiencies with personalized recruitment experiences, ensuring companies attract, engage, and hire top talent faster and more effectively. Whether through high-volume hiring, executive search, contingent workforce management, or recruitment marketing, we provide customized solutions designed to reduce time-to-fill, enhance candidate experience, and drive measurable hiring success. With a proven track record across diverse industries, NXTThing RPO helps businesses build dynamic, high-performing teams—because at NXTThing, we believe every hire matters.
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Reimagining Talent Acquisition: How Caliber Collision redesigned its hiring function using technology, tools, and analytics to proactively achieve industry-leading efficiency and metrics.
Blending Teams for Success: Leveraging an RPO partner to enhance sourcing, recruit for hard-to-fill roles, and manage recruitment marketing, technology, and compliance for improved outcomes.
Balancing Technology with Experience: How Caliber created a seamless process that incorporates AI and scalable tools while maintaining a personalized, candidate-focused approach, offering multiple ways for job seekers to engage and apply.
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10:00 a.m. Tuesday, Mar 25
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Speakers
Jim Damico
Vice President Talent Acquisition
Caliber Collision
Jim D’Amico is the Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Caliber Collision, one of the nation’s largest auto collision repair providers, and is a former Board Member and Past Board President of The Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals. Jim is known for his focus on unique and successful approaches to Talent Acquisition. For years, he has set the tone in the industry and is lauded for his novel approaches to evolving Talent Acquisition, as illustrated by engaging a Hollywood Screen Writer to help his team develop into better story tellers, and creating the Differentiated Recruiting Model to improve efficiency, effectiveness and results to the business. Jim specializes in building Best in Class Talent Acquisition functions for large global organizations and was recognized by ERE in 2015 for his work at Spectrum Health in building the Best Large Talent Acquisition Organization, a feat he accomplished in less than a year. He and his teams are 6 time recipients of CANDE Candidate Experience awards. Jim was recognized by Glassdoor as one of the Top 20 Branded HR professionals, as well as by ICIMS three times as a TA Innovator and has been featured in a series of articles highlighting Exceptional TA Leaders by Dr. John Sullivan. He has been quoted in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and the Talent Fix Volumes I and II. He is a frequent global speaker and author and is very active in the TA community as a mentor.
Taylor Franco
Director, Talent Acquisition Operations
Caliber