I want to paraphrase a recent conversation I had with an “anti-Recruitment” Hiring leader who was going on about how the talent he sees is “crap” and it takes forever to get anything done “on time”.

Me – can you outline the situation you’re referring to
HL – I had someone quit and I needed to fill the role because the longer that role stays open the more revenue it costs us.

I was at a conference a few weeks back and met up with someone and we began to discuss “Talent” (who isn’t these days) and the person I was speaking with said that the buzzword “War for Talent” needs to be updated to the “War for Good Talent”. I had nothing to say so I thought I’d go on an adventure to see what other people are saying about this.

We have all seen the recruitment life cycle time and time again, but, how many people are actually stepping outside of this cycled process and take a serious look at “Talent” and what that actually means?

Time to hire – 5 days,… good for you! Fast forward 1 year,… is this person still there, are they productive, are they exceeding expectations. If the answers are not positive, then you’ve wasted 5 days, you may never get back and cost the company a ton of money.