interbiznet.com
Click OK to subscribe to our free email Newsletters
No wonder HR has such a bad reputation.
As we pointed out in the Human Capital Management Framework we presented yesterday, much of the real value extracted from Human Capital comes from the internal machinations involved in assignment, reassignment, utilization, assessment and development. While Recruiting is an extraordinary gateway function, its utility as a key component of strategy is variable: stronger in up times, weaker in down times. When cost savings is the issue, Recruiting is not the answer.
Any fully featured, business cycle responsive Human Capital Management system must have cost savings and personnel optimization strategies embedded in the product. The reason that Icarian remains a market leader is the fact that, more than any other competitor, the executive team has seen business downturns and has some idea about how to respond. Admittedly, their offerings have yet to match their vision but, would you really want to do business with a provider, in these times, who continued to think that the optimization of "onboarding" was somehow going to play meaningfully into next quarter's financials.
Ask most Recruiting professionals what the complement of Recruiting is and they'll mumble something about outplacement. Internal and external alike, Recruiters sort of wash their hands the moment a new hire has begun to be absorbed by the organization. (There's some interesting research on the iimpact of newcomers on culture which might shed light on expanded downstream roles for Recruiters.)
These are the tough questions that follow the implementation of a real Recruiting system. The answers won't be simple and formulaic. Rather, they'll be culturally biased and context sensitive.
The Talent Lifecycle
(October 23, 2001) It's amazing how simplistically things can be described when they are devoid of operational experience and limited to the perspective of recruiting. We've come across a view of the Human Capital Marketplace that describes the "Talent Lifecycle" as Attract-Recruit-Hire-Retain. It's as if candidates didn't exist in advance of requirements and didn't have a variety of roles and relationships after hiring occurs. It's as if downsizing, layoffs and the end of a business weren't perfectly predictable parts of an employment relationship. It's as if the only thing that matters was the tiny details of the Recruiting process.
Some interesting organizations we stumbled on while working on this article:
Talent is what matters most.
Hire the best with Authoria Recruiting.
Authoria Recruiting 2007 is a next-generation recruiting solution that helps you:
Find a smarter way to hire. Download our complimentary white paper
The most widely-used enterprise recruiting solution on the market, Authoria Recruiting helps our customers manage private talent pools totaling over 11 million candidates.
-
Staffing Strategies: Can You Find, Recruit, and Retain the Talent You Need?
Electronic Recruiting News
FEATURES:
ANNUAL REPORTS:
RESOURCES:
ADVERTISING: RESOURCES:
Stocks We Watch:
- Bugler
(Sign-up)
Daily Industry News
- ERNIE
(Sign-up)
ERN in Email
Index (ERI)
- 2003 HCI
- 2002 ERI
- 2001 ERI
- 2000 ERI
- 1999 ERI
- 1997 ERI
- 1996 ERI
- Report Pricing
Branding Presentation
- Recruiting Then/Now
Public Companies
in Electronic Recruiting
All Rights Reserved.
Materials written
by John Sumser
© TwoColorHat.
All Rights Reserved.