Embracing Change

One of my favorite quotes is from George Bernard Shaw;

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

In my inaugural blog I referenced the need for immediate change in corporate recruiting. Why you ask? Because in the 17+ years I’ve been in recruiting, we haven’t changed it. Sure, we’ve added technology, we’ve invented new and creative ways to find the people we are tasked with locating (admit it, Recruiters were the first people to “Google” anybody!) and we’ve created an entirely new industry around “sourcing.” However, the fundamentals of Corporate Recruiting – defined as those of us who choose to be on the inside instead of where the money and fame is – have not changed in over 20 years.

Earlier this year I presented a webinar for the HCI Talent Acquisition – Re-Engineering Recruitment Community where I pointed out this lack of change. I also mentioned that we in corporate recruiting wrongly define our “competition” as those companies in our industry with talent we want. Our greatest competition in Corporate Recruiting is Recruiting Agencies and RPO firms. These organizations base their value proposition on being able to do our jobs better, faster and at lower costs than we do.

To compete in today’s employment landscape, Corporate Recruiters have to:

  1. Specialize within Recruiting to add significant levels of efficiency to the department.
  2. Utilize tools that level the playing field with Recruitment Agencies and their different business model.
  3. Adopt “rapid cycle” innovation to change in the Recruiting Department, mirroring the rapid market adjustments corporations make to acquire new customers.

I’ll leave you with another “change” quote;

“like an umbrella, a mind is only useful if it’s open!”

August 4, 2008 | Filed Under Industry Perspectives | 1 Comment 

Inaugural Blog

Welcome to the first AllianceQ Blog. Actually, this Blog represents a series of firsts:

This is the first blog on the AllianceQ website. This is also my very first post. As such, it will be simple, but will give you a flavor of entries to come. I believe Corporate Recruiting needs to change immediately to remain relevant in the new landscape of hiring. Occasionally my posts will touch upon AllianceQ updates and news, but that isn’t the focus of this blog. It’s about sharing my perspectives on industry trends and insights around what’s next in Corporate Recruiting.

This is also the first time I’ve made a move from the world of recruiting to the world of recruiting software solutions. AllianceQ is a very unique solution for Corporate Recruiting and it took something of this magnitude to pull me away from my 17 year career in recruiting.

And finally, AllianceQ is the first true recruiting collaboration of F1000 companies. As such, AllianceQ represents the change I will be advocating in this blog. When companies come together to collectively solve the issues and challenges that have been plaguing recruiting departments for so many years; we are on the precipice of true industry change! As we head into the coming “war to talent” (more on this in posts to come) it is the mantra of “we are more powerful than me” that will truly win the war. AllianceQ embodies this mantra.

I look forward to getting to know your thoughts on corporate recruiting and sharing mine with you!

Phil

July 8, 2008 | Filed Under Industry Perspectives | Leave a Comment