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Developing our future Recruitment Leaders

Submitted by sparkin on Fri, 2008-02-08 14:11.

Over the past year I have heard from my network that there seems to be a shortage of innovative Recruitment Managers in Canada.

Are we as a Recruitment function doing enough to develop talented recruiters, who want to be Recruitment Leaders in the future, to get to the next level?

I would love to hear opinions as well as ideas on developing our talent further in the leadership of Recruitment.

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Submitted by tcollins on Thu, 2008-02-14 11:17. *

I think the best recruiters do not always make the best recruitment leaders. I believe organizations need to start looking at leaders that can motivate and engage recruiters with new challenges and goals on a regular basis. Recruitment teams need to raise their profile and level of importance across the enterprise. A good recruiment leader will be able to create allies throughout the organization and with other recruitment leaders.

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What about Identifying?

Submitted by rmatthews on Wed, 2008-02-13 13:02. *

I often wonder if one of the reasons for the Recruitment “talent shortage” is the “Changing face of Recruitment talent”.

Recruiting has welcomed some dramatic changes over the past couple of years with the arrival of on line social networking, Google and other search engines enhancing people’s ability to “connect”. No longer are we depending on the just the job boards for that perfect candidate. People are creating their own “brand” and I’ve seen some “new” recruiting talent use some pretty “hip” methods to find them.

What metrics, KPI’s, talent recognition programs do today’s recruitment leaders have in place to identify tomorrow leaders? Are they out there, are they just not what we would “typically” expect?

My two cents,
Richard

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Are we doing enough?

Submitted by ShaneCreamer on Sat, 2008-02-09 14:14. *

I don't think that enough is being done to support and develop Canadian recruitment leaders of the future. RNG as an enabling platform and medium of communication for our community is a strong step in the right direction, but until we collectively get our heads around the concept of Recruitment being a profession (not just a stop over for HR professionals), our progress will continue to be slow. I consider myself lucky to have worked in some of Canada's best and highest performing HR groups, but continue to be amazed that very few have a senior recruitment executive that has a seat at the HR leadership table. The irony here for me is that when business leaders and executives are asked about the biggest challenges facing their organizations, the recruitment and retention of top talent is almost always a top priority.

Very few organizations offer a career track supported by training and development for recruitment professionals, and seem to almost accept that their recruiters are going to turn over after a year or 2 on the job. As a community and a profession, I think we need to take the lead in developing, mentoring, and supporting our own talent and thought leaders.

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