Recent online discussions about recruiters and recruiter training meant throwing my two cents into the fray with a repeat of articles about recruiter excellence… going beyond the basics. There is also a need to go back to the basics from time to time, how we work with others, and to analyze where recruiting management is taking us. Can just anybody be taught to recruit? Could a troop of monkeys do as well as today’s recruiting corps? The answer would depend on the quality of the final product that would be acceptable. If the truth were known, some companies are hiring on the cheap and bringing in inexpensive warm bodies and trusting that on-the-job training will be quick enough to offset any negative image generated before they are up to par. Sweatshop agencies have become the breeding ground for discontent, but those recruiters with a fire in the belly can declare independence and move on to perform earth shattering accomplishments.
The bottom line of this discussion is that profit or expenses should not define recruiting or any other function. The proof of the product is the outcome: customer and candidate satisfaction.
The Four Pillars of Recruiting – The knee-jerk reaction to describing essential elements of a function is to think of the columns holding up some massive structure. This is understood to be a symbol of strength. A very supportive person is known as a “pillar of strength.†While somewhat overused by business to show the strength of ideas, it also has the ability to show how complicated situations can be simplified into a few basic support structures. Recruiting is a perfect example of a complex function that can be better understood in a simplified model of columns. – more –
Recruiting Management And Key Stakeholders – …Generally speaking, all companies have stakeholders who expect results or rewards as a result of their interaction with the company. They are stakeholders because they will be impacted or have an impact on the actions of the company. They may be internal or external, individual or groups, and political or economic in their nature. For any internal organizational unit, the company’s core stakeholders are always of some concern, but special attention is given to those which have particular interests in the unit’s mission and activities. – more –
The Future of Recruiting: Does It Have A Future? – By most people’s definition, all things that have a past and present will have a future. Birth, life and death are understood to be natural occurrences and we assign this human characteristic to other things associated with human behavior. So the thought leaders ask this question about the future of recruiting with an assumption that tomorrow will look much differently than today. Some are predicting that it will evolve into something new and others see it dead and buried. – more –