About The Roadshow
(August 10, 2007)
The Recruiting Roadshow
is an experiment.Over the past
several years, I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to
see what working level recruiters are actually doing. Our industry has
grown and matured in some interesting ways over the last decade. The
result is an interlocking set of networks occupied by seasoned
recruiters who have been in the business for seven to ten years. They
occupy much of the visible universe of people who make buying decisions
in the industry.
My bet is that they also have a hard
time seeing the realities at the root of the game.
For a very long time, we have all
behaved as if Recruiting were a profession that is practiced identically
from setting to setting. Years of monolithic tools (job boards,
Applicant Tracking Systems) reinforced the notion.
The trouble is that the labor market is
different from town to town. Differing levels of demand, differing
levels of supply and deeply differing manners and procedures. While the
senior ranks are somewhat globalized, the real labor market is
excruciatingly local.
For the most part, the sellers of new
Recruiting tools behave as if the marketplace were homogenous. Nothing
is farther from the truth. The methods and techniques of Recruiting vary
from hamlet to hamlet. It is beginning to be the case that online tools
serve to illuminate the differences.
The goal of each individual
Recruiting Roadshow is
to cause members of the local Recruiting world who may not have easy
access to the industry's network infrastructure to have access to each
other. In other words, the networking that happens at every Recruiting
Roadshow is more important than any content that is distributed.
We hold Recruiting Roadshows in order to
make it possible for new Recruiters to network with other new
Recruiters.
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