the science and art of talent
At KhoLabs, we believe talent is the core of every great organization and that the future of early career talent doesn't come from repeating the past.
Companies and universities are faced with new challenges every day and we must evolve to stay ahead.
We can solve them together.
who we are
At KhoLabs, we partner with organizations in tackling today’s complex early career talent challenges to ensure tomorrow's success. We bring proven results, cross-industry expertise, and fresh thinking in designing strategies for clients.
Drawing from our professional experience in both corporate and academic environments, we provide well-rounded insights into goals of diverse stakeholders. This balanced perspective is essential for facilitating change, ensuring adoption, and driving effective implementation.
Our approach is rooted in a few core concepts. Through radical collaboration, we harness the skills and insights of industry specialists, while ensuring outcomes are designed for specific client needs. We leverage a design thinking methodology - maintaining a focus on people and outcomes, allowing space for creativity and ideation, testing and measurment, and creating agile solutions that can be scaled and refined.
A little about Simon Kho
Simon's passion for early careers stems from his personal experiences. As the son of immigrants, he carries a personal commitment to helping students access and discover their future calling. Simon began his career in higher education administration and college student development at both private and public universities.
As a talent leader for various companies, from start-ups to multinationals, Simon has a track record of implementing highly effective strategies on how best to develop a robust pipeline of skilled student talent while responding to the constantly shifting landscape of talent acquisition.
He brings three decades of change management experience, leading the dialogue and influencing key stakeholders on transforming the future of work across multiple industries and geographies. As early careers recruiting continues to shift, Simon understands the criticality of intentional partnerships between employers and universities.
Simon holds a bachelors degree in psychology and theology from Boston College. He received his masters degree in counseling and personnel services, with a focus on college student development, from Fordham University (NY).
what we do
We are outcomes focused and embrace a relationship-driven approach so that we work as trusted advisors and an extension of our clients' team. Our radical collaboration with clients and specialists ensures clear expectations, accesses deep insights, and delivers outstanding results. Through our active engagement with leaders from companies, institutions, and service providers, we have established core offerings that will tackle your critical gaps and hurdles.
our services
companies and organizations
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Full diagnostic of current Early Careers function and processes. This is the critical first step in determining the health of the EC capability, confirming the alignment to the broader business strategy, identifying gaps, and delivering recommendations for actions to improve results.
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Custom solution design for critical capability and needs. Each organization has different priorities and objectives and we will help design executable strategies. Some examples of previous work include:
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Create metrics and KPIs, including budgeting, retention, recruiter effectiveness
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Workforce/headcount planning model
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Organizational and team role redesign
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Tech enablement (tech stack and AI) to increase efficiencies
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Process effectiveness and workflow optimization
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Employer brand and attraction
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Candidate experience and retention
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Niche sourcing, including culture & belonging and specialized degrees/skills
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Recruiter and team training and development. Companies are experiencing more staff turnover and access to training improves time to productivity.
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Foundations is an on-demand series to assist new team members with core knowledge of university recruiting and required skills and tasks.
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Accelerate is advanced training for multiple team members and/or full teams. These sessions will be designed in consultation with recruiting leaders to expand knowledge, improves skills, build team effectiveness, and/or develop career paths for the team. This offering drives both performance and retention of high potential teams.
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Fractional leadership. This service is ideal for organizations who want an immediate solution for reshaping their early careers approach or looking to establish an early careers talent strategy. This option eliminates the need for a FTE headcount while still having access to expert leadership that can build strategy and drive change.
colleges and universities
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"Reimaging Career Services" strategy session. This offering will help evaluate and determine potential changes needed to effectively meet the needs of students, parents, faculty, and administration (e.g. student employment metrics, operating revenue streams, employer engagement, timelines, etc.). We offer a critical employer perspective when considering the future of career services. The university recruiting ecosystem has changed so dramatically that this is a crucial conversation for all student services teams. Areas to consider include:
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Student preparation (career exploration and industry exposure)
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Understanding recruiting timelines
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Skills and experience mapping and interview readiness
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Employer development and management
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Becoming a target school for key employers
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Best practices and the competitive landscape
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Managing expectations (Students, parents, administration, faculty, employers)
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Expert consulting to enhance senior stakeholder engagement. Working alongside student services leaders, we will build an influencing strategy to increase commitment from key decision makers. Deliverables may include talking points and presentation-ready materials emphasizing the crucial need for career services as part of university success.
students
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Services in development for release in 2026.