Why Hiring Managers Are Like Football Managers
The sharp end of an English football (soccer) season, always sees a raft of managerial sackings and of course new managers brought into to save the presumably sinking ship.
In a naked attempt to garner sympathy for us poor recruiters, I thought I might outline why recruitment does seem to be even harder than other sales jobs.
Recently there has been an article on news.com.au that draws on the views (allegedly at least) of an anonymous ex-recruiter. Assuming his suggested biography was even real, he seems to have worked for 3 different recruitment agencies in a fairly short period of time and clearly failed to be successful at any of them. Fair enough, abject failure can happen to the best of us Continue reading
“Company X saved itself $1m in recruitment fees last year by buying its HR team a new whizz bang, techno gadget thing !”
Another day, another article or comment BTL, (surprisingly almost always from someone who stands to gain from this switch), about the cost of using an agency versus doing it yourself. Continue reading
