Colin Kingsbury Get's it Right

Thanks Colin. You are right. I don't want a different kind of recruiting... I am predicting a whole new business. You get it completely.

My insights on reqs are silly (if not downright stupid) if you consider them from the perspective of managing cost and risk for administrative functions inside a stable business. In that case reqs make a lot of sense. But, as I have maintained many times, the business landscape is changing so fast that those recruiting departments will be evaluated only on price per transaction, and therefore they will be outsourced. It is simply impossible for an internal recruiting department to compete on price with an RPO (assuming the RPO is run correctly).

Recruiting departments that stay as integral strategic parts of their business must operate on the value / experience concept, and reqs are antithetical to that proposition. But, as you so wisely note, this is not saying "The old recruiting department needs to think differently". Au contraire! I am  saying "The old recruitment department is going to go away, and in it's place will be a outsourced relationship or a completely different business."

So you got it exactly. Thanks for your great piece.

Comments

[cathy]

Great link, I do think the business is shifting this direction.