Four Ways to Make Lean Recruiting Work
March 25th, 2010 by Louis P. Kadetsky, CPC
Talk of running a lean corporate recruiting operation isn’t new. Human resources functions have always felt disproportionate pressure to do more with less. Doubtless, an unemployment rate of 10.4 percent may cause “lean” to be pushed to new extremes, and for corporate recruiting departments, it’s just more of the same. These days, the big challenge is finding ways to go leaner without cutting into muscle. Even if you lose budget, your responsibilities are unlikely to change – and you’ll need tools to help you rise to the challenge!
KGTiger’s STREAM service can help alleviate the workload (and budgetary) pressures on your department, handling the 67 percent of your operation’s tasks that are rote, administrative and unlikely to tap the talent, skills and professional experience in your corporate recruiting department.
Below, you’ll find four ways that KGTiger can help you go leaner without compromising results.
1. Talent pool maintenance
Instead of waiting until it’s time to hire to develop your talent pools for key positions, KGTiger will assemble and manage them on an ongoing basis. So, when it’s time to fill a critical or high-profile req, you’ll already have access to a concentrated group of highly qualified and available candidates.
2. Early start
The ongoing talent pool management available through STREAM will give you first-mover advantage when the talent market begins to tighten. While your competitors are pulling together groups of potential candidates, you’ll have the best options already talking to your hiring managers.
3. Recruiters should recruit
STREAM will take over the aspects of corporate recruiting that don’t require the skills and techniques you’ve spent a career refining. Our team will make the follow-up calls, format resumes and sift through cover letters. You can spend 100 percent of your time with the best candidates, rather than the 33 percent (at best) that you get now.
4. Share for success
Overburdened corporate recruiters usually don’t have time to compare notes. If you use STREAM to go leaner, your team will still wind up with extra elbow room, allowing them to share ideas and make the entire corporate recruiting function more effective.
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