What is your company's recruiting strategy?
Is it an Academy approach where you grow your own employees through rotations and leadership programs? Is it an acquire approach where you hire from the competition?
Whatever your strategy or situation, make sure you know it.
Second question - Who controls the strategy?
Does Recruiting, HR or the function control the strategy and the forecasting for this? Make sure that you are aware of the strategy and then are staying ahead of the forecasting. Knowing the strategy is a big difference maker. The overall result for you if you understand the strategy means you can operate in a proactive (predictive) mode versus a reactive (fire drill) mode.
Ultimately, the goal is to help you operate as a cool calm recruiting consultant versus running around like an emergency room doctor in a triage situation.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
My Lucky Day!
Sorry it's been so long since my last blog. I have been traveling so
much and have been so busy with college recruiting interviewing. I have not really had much time to do anything other than work. I have been going so fast that I had something funny happened to me when I returned to
town. On Sunday of last week, I was late going to the airport and my
car needed gas. I was running so late that I didn't have time to fill
up the tank. I dropped the car off at the airport valet service and
figured I'd probably have enough when I left the airport to make it
home or at least to the nearest gas station. When I got in the car I forgot about the lack of gas since I had been gone for four days.
The low gas indicator was not on low it was BRIGHT! I may not even have enough gas to make it to the first gas station. I made it out of the airport and past 635 heading back to Frisco. I knew the first exit was for Bass Pro Shop and there was a gas station right off the exit from the highway.
On the way to the exit I felt the car starts to sputter. When I got on off the exit ramp, that's when the car started to really sputter. Then as I approached the stop sign before the gas station, the car ran out of gas and all the power on the car went out.
Then the next 20 seconds were like something out of a comedy movie. I shifted the car into neutral and coasted down a small incline and turned into the parking lot of the gas station and coasted into the gas station running out of momentum RIGHT AT THE PUMP!
I may have come up with the new business venture or an additional business item for the DFW valet service. They don't need to ask me if they can wash my car while it's parked in valet. They need to ask me if they can fill it up with gas since I never have time to do that.
much and have been so busy with college recruiting interviewing. I have not really had much time to do anything other than work. I have been going so fast that I had something funny happened to me when I returned to
town. On Sunday of last week, I was late going to the airport and my
car needed gas. I was running so late that I didn't have time to fill
up the tank. I dropped the car off at the airport valet service and
figured I'd probably have enough when I left the airport to make it
home or at least to the nearest gas station. When I got in the car I forgot about the lack of gas since I had been gone for four days.
The low gas indicator was not on low it was BRIGHT! I may not even have enough gas to make it to the first gas station. I made it out of the airport and past 635 heading back to Frisco. I knew the first exit was for Bass Pro Shop and there was a gas station right off the exit from the highway.
On the way to the exit I felt the car starts to sputter. When I got on off the exit ramp, that's when the car started to really sputter. Then as I approached the stop sign before the gas station, the car ran out of gas and all the power on the car went out.
Then the next 20 seconds were like something out of a comedy movie. I shifted the car into neutral and coasted down a small incline and turned into the parking lot of the gas station and coasted into the gas station running out of momentum RIGHT AT THE PUMP!
I may have come up with the new business venture or an additional business item for the DFW valet service. They don't need to ask me if they can wash my car while it's parked in valet. They need to ask me if they can fill it up with gas since I never have time to do that.
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