Our Internal Executive Search Function Made Us a True Business Partner
My company, Lockton , is a sales-led company that has a very intriguing setup. Producers (salespeople) at Lockton are very well-regarded, and an office can be built around a highly successful one. Our model is a high-risk, high-reward type of opportunity that offers great financial success once you reach a certain level. Traditionally HR has not been involved at all in the sourcing and recruitment of these individuals. That all changed when in fall 2008 Lockton engaged in a Producer recruiting experiment that I was fortunate enough to get involved with
How to Crack the Self-Awareness Paradigm
To bring people together around a common cause, it is critical that a leader be self aware. Jeff Immelt's recent comments to the cadets at West Point reminded me of this fact. Immelt, CEO of General Electric, said he he's learned lessons from the Great Recession that have made him "humbler and hungrier... I needed to be a better listener coming out of the crisis... I should have done more to anticipate the radical changes that occurred," he added.
Aussie Military Looks to Manpower RPO To Fill Ranks
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Video 2.0 for Recruitment blog about the U.S. Army’s $33 million investment in a recruiting video game. Ernest Feiteira picked up on an item I posted and started a conversation about the value of such recruiting tools
Social Media Recruiting Paying Off at Crowe Horwath
Crowe Horwath has a social media strategy, a plan, and now evidence that its investment in social media recruiting is paying off. A just-completed mid-term report by Crowe Horwath’s strategic sourcing leader, Michele Porfilio, shows that in the first six months of the company’s fiscal year (which begins April 1) 20 percent of the hires came from non-traditional recruiting methods. Those methods include search engine marketing and optimization, the use of job aggregators (principally Indeed and SimplyHired) and social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Advice to a Friend on Starting Her Business
I was emailing back and forth with a friend the other night who is starting up a small business. She was struggling with writing copy for her website and wanted to know what I thought
The Godot Effect
Personally, I wouldn’t even know him if I saw him. – Estragon , Waiting for Godot Some years ago I was sitting in a product design meeting. The discussion kept circling around some particularly knotty issues that no one in the room actually knew much about. In one sense, this wasn’t a serious problem given that the company was still actively hiring and there was a recognition that more people were needed. Someone finally commented that we’d have to make sure to hire someone with the particular expertise in question, and in one fell swoop, that task was assigned to a non-existent person. Again, this is not necessarily a problem … yet.
A Christmas Thank You for the Under-Appreciated Recruiter
It’s hard to argue against the fact that 2009 has been a rough year for corporate recruiters. Budgets have been slashed, training has been all but eliminated, and even with reduced recruiting activity, requisition loads are still onerous. Not everyone celebrates Christmas, but as it falls at the end of the year, it is an opportune time to take a minute and to thank those who have helped you throughout the year. While executive recruiters used to get huge paychecks and bonuses, corporate recruiters in most organizations can only be classified as under-appreciated
You Had Me … and Then You Totally Lost Me
I’m watching 60 Minutes and they have on a really moving piece about a small town in Ohio, and they interview this guy who’s probably in his late 40s/early 50s and he’s explaining how he used to have a great job managing a hundred people, but then his company shut down and he can’t find work. There’s a video of him as a senior executive a year ago, and then they show him now, and he’s not clean shaven and he looks older and tired and he explains how his house is being foreclosed on and my eyes are filling up with tears for him and for all he’s lost. And then the interviewer asks him how many resumes he’s sent out and he said he thinks it is about one hundred and twenty-three. Wait. What?
