Recruiting Strategy: From the Boardroom to the Trenches
Recruiting Strategy: From the Boardroom to the Trenches
Recruiting is not an easy business. While some may argue that it’s simple, that viewpoint is often skewed by the position a recruiter finds him or herself in. For third-party recruiters, the maxim, we find people for jobs holds true and the interaction may stop one to two weeks after the candidate’s first day. Meanwhile the corporate recruiter is not only expected to interface with marketing to create an employment brand but to sort through employee referrals, job board advertisements and a complex legacy system to find the right candidate. But even these examples don’t begin to cover what recruiters all over the world do day in and day out.
So what’s the secret formula? Lots of smart recruiters feel that moving their jobs out of the tactical, and into the arena of strategic, makes their job easier. Viewing recruiting as a strategic business objective helps translate the function from a corporate perspective all the way down to the trenches, or the “bullpen”. Whatever professional situation you find yourself in, building a strategic approach that makes sense at all levels and all stages and then walking through that plan, often alleviates some of the recruiting pitfalls we hear about all the time.
Sometimes this means taking a deeper look at tracking activities and setting up metrics to understand and possibly justify the value of practices, processes and outcome. For other companies, it means looking hard at whether the perceived employment branding is accurate and successful in attracting the right candidates. Still others may assess their function as a whole and realize what worked for a small company no longer meets a medium-sized company’s needs. In some cases, new tools must be purchased, replacing leadership may be in order, and creating new more efficient processes can be part of creating a strategic recruitment plan that will support the end goal: valuable employees.
Both Recruiting Trends and RecruitingBlogs.com find themselves in the position to observe recruiters on a daily basis and watch as they continuously wrestle with their profession. We’ve collected articles from foremost experts and relative unknowns, recruiters in big corporate companies and small one-man shops, but what they all have in common is a strategic approach to recruiting.
We hope you will find the collection of best practices and recommendations both interesting and useful. Enjoy!
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We’d like to thank the people who contributed to this book and we encourage you to continue to follow their work.
- Omowale Casselle, co-founder and CEO, mySenSay
- Susanna Cesar, Advorto (Recruitment 2.0)
- Scott Erker, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, DDI’s Selection Solutions
- Joe Gerstandt, Speaker, Workshop Facilitator and Blogger
- Ryan Leary, Senior Sourcer and Client Recruiter, Kenexa
- Lizz Pellet, CEO, EMERGE International
- Paula Santonocito, Business Journalist
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Posted by RecruitingTrends.com
on May 28, 2010. Filed under Contributors, Features, Recruiting, Thought Leadership, Tools.
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