Winning The War For Talent

Key Business Principles of the Recruiting Process – Your interviewing process should be business focused, candidate focused and rely heavily on the partnership between the teams involved in the recruiting process. Have you ever looked at the candidate generation results for your organization? Specifically look at the following: ·        Time to fill…

Consumerization of Talent Acquisition – Candidates are more like consumers of your company’s hiring processes than ever before. Are you creating the same type of process for them that you do for customers? The rise in visibility of processes, status and satisfaction ratings are changing. Have your recruiting processes done the same? One challenge about…

Process Automation and Data Based Decision making – Process automation allows for consistency and quality control of the information being shared. I am not advocating fully automated processes, but automation can be very useful in gathering and distributing information consistently so that people can make comparisons that are fair.  Technological advances have been significant over…

Talent Acquisition vs. Filling Requisitions – Hiring teams often get too focused on pedigree and checklists instead of finding the talent needed to complete the duties of the currently open positions. Are your teams more focused on hitting a number and checking boxes than adding great talent to the company. An important cost improvement factor…

Diversity Recruiting – Diversity Recruiting goes way beyond ethnicity and gender. Are your teams maximizing the unemployed and underemployed populations who may not respond to traditional mass market advertising? Veterans and their Spouses, Entry Level, Retiree and Disability Hiring initiatives are all ways to increase the candidate pool while strengthening the diversity of your team…

Note- One thing that was mentioned in the chapter was the idea of “ring fencing”. In the ring fencing model, the specific resources and their costs can be assigned to the specific project and activity. Using some type of outsourced resources that were discussed can be used to get a clear picture of costs associated…

Here is an exercise that I suggest you follow:  Think of a key position in your company.  Try to find it, read the job description and then apply. Have your managers do the same. Ask yourself the following questions: How easy is it to find, and how easy is it to apply? Does the job…

As you begin to approach the talent market about your hiring, here are some questions to ask yourself:

Now that the search is on, here are some questions for you to consider: