LEAN, Just-in-time recruiting!

In the last two weeks, I participated in discussions when this “age old” question popped up!

Please allow me to Rant a bit!
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Get a room of Hiring Managers, HR/Recruiting professionals, and sourcers together and you will get a lively debate going about “Whose Responsible?”

• Who is responsible for Turnover of new hires?
• Who is responsible for ’sourced’ candidates/leads that don’t get hired?

Regarding Turnover:

You ask Hiring Managers and many will “blame” it on poor candidate quality.

You ask Recruiters and they are likely to blame management for the ‘on boarding,’ (or lack of), process.

HR might blame shoddy assessment tactics by both parties!

Regarding ‘top’ candidates not getting hired:

Sourcers are likely to ‘blame’ recruiters that “can’t recruit and/or properly network with the leads provided.

Recruiters are likely to say, “…candidate was not a match and/or was not interested…”

At the end of the day; Who is responsible?

WE ALL ARE RESPONSIBLE!

WHO should be accountable?

WE ALL SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE!

Instead of “pointing fingers” and/or “passing the buck” – it is time for everyone involved to “take a check up from the neck up” and help identify solutions rather than excuses. As Les Brown says, “…you’re either on the way or in the way…” Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?

All too often we spend more time trying to define “who is responsible” or, who should “own” that metric rather than identifying solutions to the actual problem.

If the goal of the hiring/recruitment process is to “produce” top performers that are retained by your organization for a long period of time – then let’s work together towards that goal.

• New Hires not performing? Let’s figure out why.
• Quality new hires leaving within the first six months of employment? Let’s perform a Six Sigma project to isolate process errors and remove them.
• Sourcing leads not getting hires – - Lets get the sourcing and recruitment teams together and fix the problem.
• Who “owns” these metrics? — Who cares? All of us should take ownership.

I don’t want to get too philosophical on a Wednesday afternoon, but – - maybe this attitude among hiring managers, recruiters, HR & sourcers on this topic is the root of the problem with our economic situation.

Sure seems like there is more time spent trying to identify “Who is responsible,” and “Who is accountable,” rather than developing tangible, actionable solutions.

Moving forward, can we stop debating “Who is responsible” or should be held “Accountable”?

Rather, lets all take responsibility for identifying, engaging, hiring and retaining top performers.

End of story.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 at 10:41 am and is filed under David Szary, Recruiter, Recruiter Academy, Recruiter Boot Camp, Recruiter Top Gun, Recruiter Training, Sourcing, Talent Aquisition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.