Recruiting Tour de Force -Article

What is HOT? 1. War on talent impacting every company on the planet. 2. RPO –Recruitment Process Outsourcing. 3. Emerging industries –RPO, Sourcing, Selection, and Retention. 4. Major link between vacant chairs and loss of revenue. 5. Niche recruiting disciplines. 6. Industry experts. 7. Recruiting being divided into sourcing and selection –some companies’ boast they can do it all; others segment into best services offerings in each category. 8. Retention Focus. 9. Sourcing focus. 10. Pipeline concern. 11. Managers being held accountable for talent sourcing. 12. Management being held accountable for retention. 13. Management being held accountable for employee development. What’s NOT? 1. Generalist recruiting. 2. Only using the job boards. 3. Unemployed candidates. 4. Running advertisements. 5. Internet focus rather than people communications focus. 6. One person being a hybrid expert at everything. 7. Lone rangers. 8. 35% fees for sourcing names only. 9. Inflexibility of candidate interviews –location and time. 10. Evaluating candidates solely based on gut instinct.