Thu, 12 Jul 2012
When managing an expanding global resourcing and recruitment operation, the traditional areas for driving efficiencies “don’t matter that much” – in fact the broader, strategic picture is far more important.

This is the focus of a Special Report on pp10-11 of July’s Recruiter out this week, as explained by Christoffer Ellehuus, managing director of research and advisory firm the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), in the video below the ad:Instead of those areas described by Ellehuus in the video, there are three key areas that should dominate the resourcing and recruiting function’s strategy:

• The question of “what recruiting activities you do global versus which ones you do at a local level”.
• The ability to be agile and distribute resources globally in an appropriate way, and in particular “how cannot depend on outsourced providers to do the recruitment for you in new markets”.
• Being able to get ahead of hiring needs so a recruiter can understand and influence decisions around recruitment and be more than “just an order taker… influencing hiring decisions before they hit”.

He says that these three things are setting a “new lens for how you think about managing a recruiting organisation today”.