Welcome readers to my new Blog, entitled Radical Recruitment. You might be wondering what is Radical Recruitment. For me, it's a new way of thinking about recruiting, I think the great Lou Adler said it best when he wrote "Find Jobs for People, not People for Jobs". It's a new paradigm in recruitment, that places the candidate at the forefront of the process, and aligns all the other key stakeholders around an exceptional candidate experience.
Why do this? Why not stick with the old tried and true methods of recruitment? Well, because very soon we won't have a choice. Even though the economy is according to all pundits "slowing down" and in "recession like" conditions, I haven't seen a drastic reduction in hiring, because our talent pools are getting smaller and smaller every day.
As Ricki Ricardo said "let me 'splain" with a few facts:
1946-1964 - "Baby Boom" - in the United States alone 76 million people were born
1964-1975 - "Gen X"
1975-1995- "Gen Y" - in both generations combined in the US alone 25 million people were born
So that's a talent deficit of 50 million people in the United States alone. Even if we relied on immigration we couldn't make up that difference. And it's started to hit companies already, the first boomer "Kathleen "Kathy" Casey-Kirschling filed for Social Security in 2007, it is expected that fully 80 million Americans born from 1946 to 1964 who will qualify for Social Security over the next two decades it what has been less than affectionately known as "The Sliver Tsunami".
We need to look at the ways that we recruit, retain and market to new talent and the sooner companies start to change the better prepared they'll be to fight the talent wars of the upcoming decades. It's not all doom and gloom, social networking, niche search technologies and the Internet itself is making the job of finding top talent easier all the time, it's how we connect to these people that can (IMO) make the real difference, and that's radical.
Over the next long while I intend to write more and more on this subject and others, I intend to write about recruitment, sourcing, RPO recruitment in particular, employment branding...and share some of my thoughts on the changing shape of HR in general.
Thanks for stopping in, I'll see you soon.