Year-End Recruiting Trends: Survey Follow-up
Two weeks ago I published a short survey here, and the response has been terrific! Dozens of you sent in your answers and thoughts, which I am analyzing. In January I will have completed the analysis of the results and will write them up for you in detail. This column highlights some of the key responses, along with a few of my own comments.
Outsourcing Talent Acquisition? Maybe You Should Think Twice
As organizations respond to the tough financial environment and a lessened (albeit temporary) demand for talent, many are considering outsourcing their recruiting entirely to third-party agencies.
On the surface this is a hard strategy to attack. After all, it removes a large amount of money out of overhead, makes the costs of recruiting variable with volume, and still seems to provide the same kinds of people to the organization.
Recruiting Trends: A Brief Survey
Will you help me -- and your fellow readers?
This has been an extraordinary year -- a year of tragedies and events that were unimaginable. Because of the many changes that the recruiting profession has gone through, I am asking your help in preparing an end-of-the-year article that will attempt to summarize and capture some of the key transformations, changes, events, and trends that we have experienced as recruiters over the past 12 months.
College Recruiting: A Time to Restructure
Did you know that fewer than 45% of all high school graduates go on to higher education, and that only about half of those in high school ever graduate? Or that enrollment this past year in engineering disciplines declined by 16%? These are scary statistics if you are responsible for bringing in entry-level talent, and even scarier if you are a manager with engineering or information technology positions to fill.
As we come out of this recession, we will need to attract all the college graduates we can.
Change and Thanksgiving
This past year has been one of change, and a great deal of stress, for our profession, not to mention our economy and our political systems. As we sit down tomorrow (in the United States) for Thanksgiving dinner with our family and friends, I hope we find it within ourselves to be thankful for all that we do have, and that we vow to begin to accept the changes this century will bring to us in recruiting.
We are now well into the second millennium and we can feel change everywhere.
A Memo to Hiring Managers: Tips for Better Hiring
You probably only hire a handful of people each year, and the recruiter assigned to your team has always done a reasonable job of getting decent people. Sure you have to ask for resumes two or three times in order to get enough to make sure you are hiring the best, but it seems to have worked out pretty well over the years.
Now let me ask you a few questions.
Service Level Agreements: Summing Up
For the past two weeks we have been discussing the value of service level agreements, or SLAs. There has been a large response to the questionnaire I distributed, and I now want to share some of the reactions and comments I have received and sum up this discussion.
While almost all of the agencies and third-party recruiters who responded indicated that they use formal agreements with their clients, very few of the internal recruiting departments say they use service level agreements. This is too bad.