Overcome Recruiting Resistance: Get Ready for the Future Now
August 25th, 2010 by Louis P. Kadetsky, CPC
Short-sightedness is the current curse of corporate recruiting. As company executives remain focused on the day-to-day swings of the market and economy, they are overlooking an opportunity to lay the foundation for future growth – by bringing in revenue-producing employees. Everyone is feeling it, of course, which is what creates the opportunity in the marketplace for you to secure a competitive advantage.
According to a post on Monster’s “Recruiting and Hiring Advice” blog:
This resistance cuts across the industry, from temp agencies to retained search firms. “Employers are hesitant to hire non-contingent workers, so they’re hiring contingent employees,” says Tony Gregoire, senior research analyst at Staffing Industry Analysts. “Often they’re even skittish to hire contingents. There is growth in staffing, but it’s spotty. We project 16 percent revenue growth for industrial staffing in 2010, but healthcare should see a 3 percent decline in revenue.”
So, this creates the potential for disparity. You could follow the rest of the market, and hold off on hiring for now. Then, when conditions do turn in your favor sufficiently to warrant adding headcount, you can jump into the fray with everyone else and compete aggressively for the same talent your competitors want.
The time to act is now. Even if you don’t have the green light to start hiring, you at least want to start targeting. With KGTiger’s STREAM service, you can develop the talent pools that are most likely to yield the talent that will advance your company in the market when it is time to hire. And in the meantime, you can begin to cultivate these candidates, getting them interested in your company and building momentum until you can bring them into the formal hiring process.
Wait too long and you’ll be engaged in the same tactics as your competitors. Start planning now, even if you aren’t ready to hire, and you will be making decisions when the rest of the market is merely making inquiries.
[Source: Monster]