Hi All,
I am an MBA student currently interning in HR during my summer break. My project topic involves studying the best recruitment strategies currently employed across various industries. I am seeking information on the newer approaches or strategies being utilized in recruitment today. Could anyone kindly assist me with this?
In Anticipation,
Ruhi Pathan
From India, Mumbai
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1I am an MBA student currently interning in HR during my summer break. My project topic involves studying the best recruitment strategies currently employed across various industries. I am seeking information on the newer approaches or strategies being utilized in recruitment today. Could anyone kindly assist me with this?
In Anticipation,
Ruhi Pathan
From India, Mumbai
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Hello,
A new style of recruitment is, without a doubt, Employer Branding. It ensures that you have a strong image on the labor market as a company so that people want to stay with you or apply spontaneously to your company. To do so, you have to know what your own employees expect from you (which is a lot more than just a high salary). Your own employees are your best ambassadors. The message you bring to the labor market has to come from inside the organization.
Good luck!
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A new style of recruitment is, without a doubt, Employer Branding. It ensures that you have a strong image on the labor market as a company so that people want to stay with you or apply spontaneously to your company. To do so, you have to know what your own employees expect from you (which is a lot more than just a high salary). Your own employees are your best ambassadors. The message you bring to the labor market has to come from inside the organization.
Good luck!
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buddy! ur topic is a hotcake. i recently designed a recuitment process for my coy, i ll try to fwd dat to u.
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Hey Venkatesh...thats so sweet n nice of u...but can u mail it across to me as soon as possible...coz i hav to submit my report in some days.... will always remain thankful to you....
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hi, the topic is in a way related to what i am doin my intern too. can someone pl forward a copy of the details to my id as well? regards akil
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Hey Venkatesh! If you don't mind, can you mail me at 
too? I do have a suggestion - you can post the details on Citehr so that others can benefit as well.
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Hi,
I am working in an IT firm. Could you please email me a copy of the recruitment strategies? It would be a great help. My email ID is sukhjinderg@gmail.com.
In fact, since a lot of members seem to be interested in this report, you could go ahead and post it for a free download along with your message.
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Sukhi
From India, Delhi
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I am working in an IT firm. Could you please email me a copy of the recruitment strategies? It would be a great help. My email ID is sukhjinderg@gmail.com.
In fact, since a lot of members seem to be interested in this report, you could go ahead and post it for a free download along with your message.
Thanks,
Sukhi
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Hi,
A few days back, I received an email from a job portal stating that reputable organizations like ACES, Infosys, and many more are seeking MBA freshers. However, I did not keep that email in my inbox as it was not useful to me. I receive such emails frequently, so the next time I receive one, I will forward it to you.
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Vegha.
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A few days back, I received an email from a job portal stating that reputable organizations like ACES, Infosys, and many more are seeking MBA freshers. However, I did not keep that email in my inbox as it was not useful to me. I receive such emails frequently, so the next time I receive one, I will forward it to you.
Regards,
Vegha.
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hii venkatesh i m doing my summer project on recruitment process so plz fwd me the material...i need it urgently... regards anish
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hi this is archana again can any one of u guide me 4 any good topic of hr 4 project work.& best sap institution too.
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Hi Venkatesh,
I had requested the information to be forwarded to my email ID lavena.dsouza@gmail.com. Unfortunately, I guess you must have missed it. Can I suggest you upload this data here so that all our friends, including myself, could view the same.
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Tina
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I had requested the information to be forwarded to my email ID lavena.dsouza@gmail.com. Unfortunately, I guess you must have missed it. Can I suggest you upload this data here so that all our friends, including myself, could view the same.
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Tina
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Hai this is sunil my project is on recruitment and selection process at software companies can any one pls send me any important notes
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For best-in-class recruitment practices, please visit Predictive Index Survey.
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Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Here are some hiring practices that I've found valuable...
Recruit people who will be slow learners of the corporate dogma ("This is how we do things around here"). If you keep looking for people of "your kind", that is, the same skills and attributes you have, sooner or later you create such level of incest in your firm that you end up wiping yourself out. Hint: Look at some Royal families in the world.
Recruit people who are better than you. Yes, you can put together a team in which you are the genius, but then you stand on the shoulders of dwarfs, and the limit of your vision is the tip of your nose. Attract people who are better then you, stretch you with their weird perspectives and oddball concepts, and you stand on the shoulders of giants. To do this you must tame your ego, but in return, you may just see much further.
Recruit people who occasionally piss you off. It only means those people think differently, thus bring new perspectives to your firm. If you recruit only people you like, because they are just like you, you are multiplying your own flaws. If you are an accountant who is allergic to selling, soon you will have a neat group of bankrupt accounting geniuses.
Recruit people whom you are willing to compensate well. As the Brits say: If you pay peanuts you get only monkeys. And since the universal law of attraction says that, "like attracts like", if you attract monkeys then you have a monkey business in which you are the chief monkey. That makes you a five-star imitator. And high calibre people with do their best to avoid you.
Yes, money is not the greatest motivator, but lack of money is the greatest demotivator. Just imagine, you have to live the rest of your life in fear of losing your best people, because a better firm has seduced them with better opportunities, including but not limited to better compensation. And when they go to the competition, they take your deepest secrets and many of your clients with them.
You may say that stealing clients is unethical, but since the professional service firm is the only form of business that is based on one-to-one relationships, many clients automatically move with the professionals with whom they have one-to-one relationships. And, besides swearing and shaking your fist to the high heavens, there is not a sausage you can do about it.
Now you may say your people signed non-disclosure and non-competition agreements. You can't be so naive, can you? There is one more thing here: How can you ask - almost - minimum wage - people to go out and sell your premium services? Minimum wage people develop minimum wage mindsets and minimum wage performance. Potential clients will be able to read this sign and it is very repelling.
Recruit people you don't need yet. Recruiting good people is just like "recruiting" a spouse. Just as you can't go out saying "I must fill the vacancy for a wife by Friday 5:00PM", you cannot find good people that way either. You recruit good people whenever you bump into them. Many firms make the mistake of growing linearly. The idea is to start with the end in mind and working backwards. If your vision is to develop a large multi-national firm, then abandon your small business management practices, that is, let's save money by building our own websites and cleaning our own toilets. If you want to grow, show it.
Also growth starts on the inside. First you have to develop the performance capability within your firm, and then that capability turns into performance and new revenue. It's like farming. First you have to plant and then harvest. You can't start the farming cycle by getting paid $1 million for your corn which you haven't even planted yet.
Use job interviews as idea generation, not only to screen candidates. The fresh perspective of the "ignorant antagonist" can take your level of thinking to a much higher level. Most people in most firms become the big bosses' yes people. Bring in people who dare to oppose you. That is how great concepts are created. You need people who dare to say: The emperor has no clothes.
Encourage your people to be mavericks. This is very hard. Most firm owners, especially owners of small joints are breathtakingly ego-driven, and want to take control without realising a basic fact as Nicole Kidman bluntly put it to Tom Cruise in the movie Days of Thunder: "Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac. Nobody controls anything." They have the "My way or the highway" mentality. You can buy people's time, their muscle movements, but you must earn their respect. You can control labourers by prodding them to shovel more horseshit from one pile to the other, but you can't control professionals to provide higher quality services. And one must be an Olympic-grade idiot even for trying. Just accept that your people are good at what they do, and give them freedom to practise their crafts. Focus on that you create an environment of honest, ethical high quality work, and your people will step up to your expectations.
Heed this: It may be your business per se, but your people probably have more control over it than you can imagine, and rest assured if you piss them off, they can ruin it for you before you can say Jamina Puddleduck.
Over the years I have asked this questions from people at professional service firms: "If you were dismissed unjustly, what could you to take revenge on your firm?" Here are some responses:
• "I would take the firm to court."
• "I would write a news release about my firm's dirty practices."
• "I would start laying out the firm's dirty laundry."
• "I would get in touch with the media: newspapers, radio, TV, and off I go on a crusade."
• "I would set up my own firm and would continue servicing my own clients."
• "I would file an official complaint against my firm at its professional association."
• "I would request a tax audit on my firm on the very strong suspicion of tax fraud."
• "I have contacts at the Hell's Angels. Use your imagination."
So, if you believe you have the upper hand on your people, then you had better get real. They have the upper hand on you, and if you piss them off, there is no doubt, they will know how to use it to destroy your firm. So, you had better respect your people a little bit.
Hint: Do you know why so many consultants never put their best clients into their firms' databases, and protect their identities like junkyard dogs? And I bet some of them would even kill if someone got too close to their clients.
Why Do You Think That Happens?
Consultants know that only very few firms are worth investing a long-term career in, so they grow their own assets within their firms. It is basically their firms' cultures that force them to build their own careers covertly, and when they are ready to jump, they go into competition against their former employers. Who can blame them? Nobody. Their former employers "made" them do it by working in a competitive as opposed to a collegial and collaborative environment.
When you talk about money, watch your candidates like a hawk. Watch both for verbal and non-verbal cues. If, after a boring discussion, their eyes light up, then you had better run very fast and very far, unless you run a consulting whore house and manage by "billable hours" and "making quota."
Focus on people who have never worked in an environment you have. Ignoring this concept can lead you to a collection great - for instance - doctors with amazing content knowledge but with no emotional skills, who cannot work with people beyond giving basic orders: "Bend over!... Next!"
Over the years the fitness industry has turned itself into a cheap commodity because most of the facility managers have focused on hiring personal trainers and instructors with advanced fitness degrees but no business knowledge. Consequently, most fitness facilities don't know sweet Fanny Adams about how to operate profitable businesses that offer longevity and overall well-being.
Ignore your firm's past. You can't build your firm's future by constantly looking at the rear view mirror. As the saying goes, you can never discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose the sight of the safe and secure shore.
Here you can ask two questions:
The tactical question is: "What can we achieve through who we are, with what we and by what we do� today." That is, you have some rigid tactics and keep the strategy fluid. This is retarded. This is like a ship's captain saying, "Where can we go by steadily sailing south-east at 5.6 knots." Here the strategy is subservient to the tactics. As Stephen Covey says, "You're busy climbing a ladder but you don't know what it leans against." In this approach "How?" (Tactics) is given and the "What?" (Strategy) is haphazard.
The strategic question is: Who do we have to become and what do we have to do to achieve our objectives? Note that the "What?" (Strategy) is given and the "How?" (Tactics) is flexible.
Discovering Your People's Natural Strengths?
To make the most of your people, you have to make sure they play to their natural strengths. Your strengths are the direct result of the natural talents you were born with. These talents have been honed and sharpened through life experiences, education and the skills you've developed over the years. If you determine your people's strengths, you can really build a strategically focused firm that has a competitive advantage. In order for you to clearly identify your people's strengths it will be helpful to look at what constitutes strengths.
Strengths = Talents + Education + Experiences + Skills
Step 1- Talents
It all starts with your inborn talents. Your talents are the special abilities that you were either born with or developed within the first 3 years of your life. Talent is a consistently recurring pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that can be applied productively. These abilities can take many forms:
• Thinking abilities (strategic thinker, a marketing mind, visual or spatial thinking, genius thinking, creative thinking, linear thinking, curiosity, etc�)
• Feeling abilities (intuitive, empathetic, passion, confidence, determination, spontaneous, etc�)
• Behaviours (working well under pressure, being responsible, ability to focus, being a good listener, good negotiator, good bluffer, eye-hand coordination etc�)
Your talents are the foundations of your strengths. To achieve mastery, to be really excellent at anything first requires that you were born with a foundation for it. If you have the foundation, then you still need to receive the education, experience and skill training to convert the talent into a strength. If all these elements come together you have a strength.
Step 2 - Education
This derives from schooling, working with through mentors, reading, attending seminars, audio programs, and every other way you can bring in information that is already prepared for you in some form or another. This is the result of explicit learning.
Your education can either supportive or antagonistic to your natural talents. If a naturally talented musician like Mozart had studied accounting, that would have been antagonistic to his natural talents. Ideally, your education should work in synergy with your talents. If you're a naturally born analyst, then study accounting.
Step 3 - Experiences
What you've learned throughout your life and pulled out as your observations and conclusions on how to do things. As a result of your experiences, your work becomes more and more intuitive. Hint: You can't go to school to become the next Picasso. You may want to read more about this in Malcolm Gladwell's book, entitled Blink.
Step 4 - Skills
Skills are the steps by step instructions that experts have refined for you to more easily learn specific activities. While learning skills will help you improve your performance in any area, the areas where you have foundational talents will show exponential growth in your ability.
An example might be golf. I would imagine that no one has ever played at a pro level the first time they picked up a club. But some people take lessons for years and while they improve they still kind of suck. Others though show incredible progress from lesson to lesson. The difference between the two is inborn talents.
Before You Are Hiring Your Next Person
Step 1: Define the Position
Purpose: This is the "Why?" you want to hire this person. You must have a better reason than we have lots of projects and need new people. First reach the point of having much more demand for your firm than it can provide, so you can cherry pick your clients. And hire only when you have overwhelming demands for your services at premium fees.
Objectives: This is the "What?" you want to hire this person. What is this person expected to achieve in the new position?
What is this person responsible for? Do you expect this person to achieve results or mark time, be busy and perform pre-defined tasks?
What authority will this person receive to achieve the expected outcomes?
Describe the type of relationship this person is expected to work in both with clients and other associates of your firm.
Describe the environment this person is expected to operate in.
Step 2: Job Performance
The person: Remember, his book, in Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill writes about personality traits to achieve success, not specific skills to master, courses to take and certificates to collect. So, you'd better select this person based on character traits. Everything else can be taught and learnt. Many firms kill themselves by employing apathetic geniuses. What also works against you is that statistically, some 86% of employees hate their jobs and/or bosses.
Rewards: How do you reward this new person? Forget about hourly rates. That's retarded and it rewards incompetence.
Repercussions: How do you deal with people who refuse to act in the in the best interest of the higher good and goes on self-serving crusades?
Step 3: Measuring Results
Expected vs. Actual: Basically you measure and chart your projections against your actual results.
Differences: This gives you your delta, the difference between the projection and actual outcomes.
Corrections: And based on your delta, now you know what to do with it. That is, what sort of corrective action to take to get back on track.
There are two factors you can measure. Does your measurement relate to the process or the outcome? And is the measurement qualitative or quantitative?
So, you measure...
Quantitative Outcomes: These are the numerical changes your firms achieves by hiring this person.
Quantitative Process: This is the measure of progress. In project management these are your milestones.
Qualitative Process: This is about how your new candidates feel about the process of change that your firm initiated by hiring them.
Qualitative Outcomes: This section measures how your new candidates feel about the end result they are expected to create.
So, what are the lessons here? One is that you should focus on character not schooling. This especially important if you consider that...
...According to the study "Academic Dishonesty in Graduate Business Programs: The Prevalence, Causes, and Proposed Actions", reported by The Toronto Star, 56% of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the last year, compared with 47 per cent of non-business students.
"The study, which included 5,000 MBA students from 11 graduate business schools in Canada and 21 schools in the U.S., was conducted by management professors at Rutgers, Washington State and Pennsylvania State universities, and due to appear in the next issue of the Academy of Management Learning & Education journal. Researcher Donald McCabe also noted "Those numbers are probably under-reported."
This study points out an ongoing trend that lying and cheating in the world of business is just normal and they are here to stay. So, students learn at an early age that since business is based on lying and cheating, using lying and cheating in studying business is acceptable and perfectly normal.
In a 2005 study by analysts at Wetfeet, over 800 students, who pursued careers in management consulting, were asked: "Please select up to 3 factors that make your top ranked company appealing to you." Only 2 (0.25%) people said that "Ethics" was one of their top 3 factors for choosing a consulting firm. (Even the category "Other" was rated more highly than "Ethics.")
So, this is it for this month on hiring good people. A few things to think about.
Good Luck,
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Strategies for Talent Acquisition
Here are some hiring practices that I've found valuable...
Recruit people who will be slow learners of the corporate dogma ("This is how we do things around here"). If you keep looking for people of "your kind", that is, the same skills and attributes you have, sooner or later you create such level of incest in your firm that you end up wiping yourself out. Hint: Look at some Royal families in the world.
Recruit people who are better than you. Yes, you can put together a team in which you are the genius, but then you stand on the shoulders of dwarfs, and the limit of your vision is the tip of your nose. Attract people who are better then you, stretch you with their weird perspectives and oddball concepts, and you stand on the shoulders of giants. To do this you must tame your ego, but in return, you may just see much further.
Recruit people who occasionally piss you off. It only means those people think differently, thus bring new perspectives to your firm. If you recruit only people you like, because they are just like you, you are multiplying your own flaws. If you are an accountant who is allergic to selling, soon you will have a neat group of bankrupt accounting geniuses.
Recruit people whom you are willing to compensate well. As the Brits say: If you pay peanuts you get only monkeys. And since the universal law of attraction says that, "like attracts like", if you attract monkeys then you have a monkey business in which you are the chief monkey. That makes you a five-star imitator. And high calibre people with do their best to avoid you.
Yes, money is not the greatest motivator, but lack of money is the greatest demotivator. Just imagine, you have to live the rest of your life in fear of losing your best people, because a better firm has seduced them with better opportunities, including but not limited to better compensation. And when they go to the competition, they take your deepest secrets and many of your clients with them.
You may say that stealing clients is unethical, but since the professional service firm is the only form of business that is based on one-to-one relationships, many clients automatically move with the professionals with whom they have one-to-one relationships. And, besides swearing and shaking your fist to the high heavens, there is not a sausage you can do about it.
Now you may say your people signed non-disclosure and non-competition agreements. You can't be so naive, can you? There is one more thing here: How can you ask - almost - minimum wage - people to go out and sell your premium services? Minimum wage people develop minimum wage mindsets and minimum wage performance. Potential clients will be able to read this sign and it is very repelling.
Recruit people you don't need yet. Recruiting good people is just like "recruiting" a spouse. Just as you can't go out saying "I must fill the vacancy for a wife by Friday 5:00PM", you cannot find good people that way either. You recruit good people whenever you bump into them. Many firms make the mistake of growing linearly. The idea is to start with the end in mind and working backwards. If your vision is to develop a large multi-national firm, then abandon your small business management practices, that is, let's save money by building our own websites and cleaning our own toilets. If you want to grow, show it.
Also growth starts on the inside. First you have to develop the performance capability within your firm, and then that capability turns into performance and new revenue. It's like farming. First you have to plant and then harvest. You can't start the farming cycle by getting paid $1 million for your corn which you haven't even planted yet.
Use job interviews as idea generation, not only to screen candidates. The fresh perspective of the "ignorant antagonist" can take your level of thinking to a much higher level. Most people in most firms become the big bosses' yes people. Bring in people who dare to oppose you. That is how great concepts are created. You need people who dare to say: The emperor has no clothes.
Encourage your people to be mavericks. This is very hard. Most firm owners, especially owners of small joints are breathtakingly ego-driven, and want to take control without realising a basic fact as Nicole Kidman bluntly put it to Tom Cruise in the movie Days of Thunder: "Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac. Nobody controls anything." They have the "My way or the highway" mentality. You can buy people's time, their muscle movements, but you must earn their respect. You can control labourers by prodding them to shovel more horseshit from one pile to the other, but you can't control professionals to provide higher quality services. And one must be an Olympic-grade idiot even for trying. Just accept that your people are good at what they do, and give them freedom to practise their crafts. Focus on that you create an environment of honest, ethical high quality work, and your people will step up to your expectations.
Heed this: It may be your business per se, but your people probably have more control over it than you can imagine, and rest assured if you piss them off, they can ruin it for you before you can say Jamina Puddleduck.
Over the years I have asked this questions from people at professional service firms: "If you were dismissed unjustly, what could you to take revenge on your firm?" Here are some responses:
• "I would take the firm to court."
• "I would write a news release about my firm's dirty practices."
• "I would start laying out the firm's dirty laundry."
• "I would get in touch with the media: newspapers, radio, TV, and off I go on a crusade."
• "I would set up my own firm and would continue servicing my own clients."
• "I would file an official complaint against my firm at its professional association."
• "I would request a tax audit on my firm on the very strong suspicion of tax fraud."
• "I have contacts at the Hell's Angels. Use your imagination."
So, if you believe you have the upper hand on your people, then you had better get real. They have the upper hand on you, and if you piss them off, there is no doubt, they will know how to use it to destroy your firm. So, you had better respect your people a little bit.
Hint: Do you know why so many consultants never put their best clients into their firms' databases, and protect their identities like junkyard dogs? And I bet some of them would even kill if someone got too close to their clients.
Why Do You Think That Happens?
Consultants know that only very few firms are worth investing a long-term career in, so they grow their own assets within their firms. It is basically their firms' cultures that force them to build their own careers covertly, and when they are ready to jump, they go into competition against their former employers. Who can blame them? Nobody. Their former employers "made" them do it by working in a competitive as opposed to a collegial and collaborative environment.
When you talk about money, watch your candidates like a hawk. Watch both for verbal and non-verbal cues. If, after a boring discussion, their eyes light up, then you had better run very fast and very far, unless you run a consulting whore house and manage by "billable hours" and "making quota."
Focus on people who have never worked in an environment you have. Ignoring this concept can lead you to a collection great - for instance - doctors with amazing content knowledge but with no emotional skills, who cannot work with people beyond giving basic orders: "Bend over!... Next!"
Over the years the fitness industry has turned itself into a cheap commodity because most of the facility managers have focused on hiring personal trainers and instructors with advanced fitness degrees but no business knowledge. Consequently, most fitness facilities don't know sweet Fanny Adams about how to operate profitable businesses that offer longevity and overall well-being.
Ignore your firm's past. You can't build your firm's future by constantly looking at the rear view mirror. As the saying goes, you can never discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose the sight of the safe and secure shore.
Here you can ask two questions:
The tactical question is: "What can we achieve through who we are, with what we and by what we do� today." That is, you have some rigid tactics and keep the strategy fluid. This is retarded. This is like a ship's captain saying, "Where can we go by steadily sailing south-east at 5.6 knots." Here the strategy is subservient to the tactics. As Stephen Covey says, "You're busy climbing a ladder but you don't know what it leans against." In this approach "How?" (Tactics) is given and the "What?" (Strategy) is haphazard.
The strategic question is: Who do we have to become and what do we have to do to achieve our objectives? Note that the "What?" (Strategy) is given and the "How?" (Tactics) is flexible.
Discovering Your People's Natural Strengths?
To make the most of your people, you have to make sure they play to their natural strengths. Your strengths are the direct result of the natural talents you were born with. These talents have been honed and sharpened through life experiences, education and the skills you've developed over the years. If you determine your people's strengths, you can really build a strategically focused firm that has a competitive advantage. In order for you to clearly identify your people's strengths it will be helpful to look at what constitutes strengths.
Strengths = Talents + Education + Experiences + Skills
Step 1- Talents
It all starts with your inborn talents. Your talents are the special abilities that you were either born with or developed within the first 3 years of your life. Talent is a consistently recurring pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that can be applied productively. These abilities can take many forms:
• Thinking abilities (strategic thinker, a marketing mind, visual or spatial thinking, genius thinking, creative thinking, linear thinking, curiosity, etc�)
• Feeling abilities (intuitive, empathetic, passion, confidence, determination, spontaneous, etc�)
• Behaviours (working well under pressure, being responsible, ability to focus, being a good listener, good negotiator, good bluffer, eye-hand coordination etc�)
Your talents are the foundations of your strengths. To achieve mastery, to be really excellent at anything first requires that you were born with a foundation for it. If you have the foundation, then you still need to receive the education, experience and skill training to convert the talent into a strength. If all these elements come together you have a strength.
Step 2 - Education
This derives from schooling, working with through mentors, reading, attending seminars, audio programs, and every other way you can bring in information that is already prepared for you in some form or another. This is the result of explicit learning.
Your education can either supportive or antagonistic to your natural talents. If a naturally talented musician like Mozart had studied accounting, that would have been antagonistic to his natural talents. Ideally, your education should work in synergy with your talents. If you're a naturally born analyst, then study accounting.
Step 3 - Experiences
What you've learned throughout your life and pulled out as your observations and conclusions on how to do things. As a result of your experiences, your work becomes more and more intuitive. Hint: You can't go to school to become the next Picasso. You may want to read more about this in Malcolm Gladwell's book, entitled Blink.
Step 4 - Skills
Skills are the steps by step instructions that experts have refined for you to more easily learn specific activities. While learning skills will help you improve your performance in any area, the areas where you have foundational talents will show exponential growth in your ability.
An example might be golf. I would imagine that no one has ever played at a pro level the first time they picked up a club. But some people take lessons for years and while they improve they still kind of suck. Others though show incredible progress from lesson to lesson. The difference between the two is inborn talents.
Before You Are Hiring Your Next Person
Step 1: Define the Position
Purpose: This is the "Why?" you want to hire this person. You must have a better reason than we have lots of projects and need new people. First reach the point of having much more demand for your firm than it can provide, so you can cherry pick your clients. And hire only when you have overwhelming demands for your services at premium fees.
Objectives: This is the "What?" you want to hire this person. What is this person expected to achieve in the new position?
What is this person responsible for? Do you expect this person to achieve results or mark time, be busy and perform pre-defined tasks?
What authority will this person receive to achieve the expected outcomes?
Describe the type of relationship this person is expected to work in both with clients and other associates of your firm.
Describe the environment this person is expected to operate in.
Step 2: Job Performance
The person: Remember, his book, in Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill writes about personality traits to achieve success, not specific skills to master, courses to take and certificates to collect. So, you'd better select this person based on character traits. Everything else can be taught and learnt. Many firms kill themselves by employing apathetic geniuses. What also works against you is that statistically, some 86% of employees hate their jobs and/or bosses.
Rewards: How do you reward this new person? Forget about hourly rates. That's retarded and it rewards incompetence.
Repercussions: How do you deal with people who refuse to act in the in the best interest of the higher good and goes on self-serving crusades?
Step 3: Measuring Results
Expected vs. Actual: Basically you measure and chart your projections against your actual results.
Differences: This gives you your delta, the difference between the projection and actual outcomes.
Corrections: And based on your delta, now you know what to do with it. That is, what sort of corrective action to take to get back on track.
There are two factors you can measure. Does your measurement relate to the process or the outcome? And is the measurement qualitative or quantitative?
So, you measure...
Quantitative Outcomes: These are the numerical changes your firms achieves by hiring this person.
Quantitative Process: This is the measure of progress. In project management these are your milestones.
Qualitative Process: This is about how your new candidates feel about the process of change that your firm initiated by hiring them.
Qualitative Outcomes: This section measures how your new candidates feel about the end result they are expected to create.
So, what are the lessons here? One is that you should focus on character not schooling. This especially important if you consider that...
...According to the study "Academic Dishonesty in Graduate Business Programs: The Prevalence, Causes, and Proposed Actions", reported by The Toronto Star, 56% of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the last year, compared with 47 per cent of non-business students.
"The study, which included 5,000 MBA students from 11 graduate business schools in Canada and 21 schools in the U.S., was conducted by management professors at Rutgers, Washington State and Pennsylvania State universities, and due to appear in the next issue of the Academy of Management Learning & Education journal. Researcher Donald McCabe also noted "Those numbers are probably under-reported."
This study points out an ongoing trend that lying and cheating in the world of business is just normal and they are here to stay. So, students learn at an early age that since business is based on lying and cheating, using lying and cheating in studying business is acceptable and perfectly normal.
In a 2005 study by analysts at Wetfeet, over 800 students, who pursued careers in management consulting, were asked: "Please select up to 3 factors that make your top ranked company appealing to you." Only 2 (0.25%) people said that "Ethics" was one of their top 3 factors for choosing a consulting firm. (Even the category "Other" was rated more highly than "Ethics.")
So, this is it for this month on hiring good people. A few things to think about.
Good Luck,
Sunita Singh
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I m working in an MNC . Looking after recruitment. I m now asked to frame a Recruitment Policy Cum Strategy , Can any one could send me the details. Awaiting for reply. Please . regards
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Hi Venkatesh,
I am involved in recruiting Diploma engineers for our manufacturing company. Attrition rates are reaching new heights. I hope your research has the key to reduce this. Please share your "work of art" so that I can also benefit from it. Input from others is also welcome.
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Tom
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I am involved in recruiting Diploma engineers for our manufacturing company. Attrition rates are reaching new heights. I hope your research has the key to reduce this. Please share your "work of art" so that I can also benefit from it. Input from others is also welcome.
Regards,
Tom
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Dear Vegha,
If you could kindly inform me about the job opening (as you mentioned in the message). I am currently pursuing an MBA in HR and IT. I am in the process of applying and looking for links to apply for jobs. Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you and regards,
Madhur
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If you could kindly inform me about the job opening (as you mentioned in the message). I am currently pursuing an MBA in HR and IT. I am in the process of applying and looking for links to apply for jobs. Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you and regards,
Madhur
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Hello friends,
I am currently undergoing my summer project titled 'Knowledge Management Practices.' I am a novice in the field, so I am looking forward to help from experienced professionals. Any information, please forward to me on my ID:
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Thank you in advance.
Anil
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I am currently undergoing my summer project titled 'Knowledge Management Practices.' I am a novice in the field, so I am looking forward to help from experienced professionals. Any information, please forward to me on my ID:
Thank you in advance.
Anil
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Hello Venkatesh,
Can you please forward the details on Recruitment Strategies and planning to my email as well: lordart2004@yahoo.com? It will really help me in taking up my new position and understanding it well. I will be really grateful to you if you could do the needful.
Regards,
Ritu
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Can you please forward the details on Recruitment Strategies and planning to my email as well: lordart2004@yahoo.com? It will really help me in taking up my new position and understanding it well. I will be really grateful to you if you could do the needful.
Regards,
Ritu
From India, Calcutta
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Hello,
A new style of recruitment is, without any doubt, Employer Branding. It ensures you have a strong image on the labor market as a company so that people want to stay with you or apply spontaneously to your company. To do so, you have to know what your own employees expect from you (which is a lot more than just a high salary). Your own employees are your best ambassadors. The message you bring to the labor market has to come from inside the organization.
Good luck!
Hello! I am in dire need to complete my task (project) on the reduction in the cost of recruitment and to evaluate the training program. Please, guide me on the best inexpensive way to establish a reduction in cost for the enterprise and the methods to measure the training program, benefiting both the company and the employees.
Thanks in advance and hoping to hear from you as soon as possible.
Kate.
From India, Mumbai
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A new style of recruitment is, without any doubt, Employer Branding. It ensures you have a strong image on the labor market as a company so that people want to stay with you or apply spontaneously to your company. To do so, you have to know what your own employees expect from you (which is a lot more than just a high salary). Your own employees are your best ambassadors. The message you bring to the labor market has to come from inside the organization.
Good luck!
Hello! I am in dire need to complete my task (project) on the reduction in the cost of recruitment and to evaluate the training program. Please, guide me on the best inexpensive way to establish a reduction in cost for the enterprise and the methods to measure the training program, benefiting both the company and the employees.
Thanks in advance and hoping to hear from you as soon as possible.
Kate.
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Hi everybody! I'm a student of MBA HR as well, and I'm also doing my summer internship. As a part of this training, I'm working on a project on recruitment. I would be very thankful to everybody if they could help me with this project. I will be delighted if everyone could provide me with their valuable inputs.
I kindly request you to forward to me the information regarding new and best recruitment strategies that have been compiled by one of the members. My email ID is [email protected]
From India, Ghaziabad
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I kindly request you to forward to me the information regarding new and best recruitment strategies that have been compiled by one of the members. My email ID is [email protected]
From India, Ghaziabad
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Dear Ruhi,
I suggest that you include some information on Web 2.0 recruiting as it is the latest technique used in the field of recruitment. This involves attracting candidates from sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
Thank you.
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I suggest that you include some information on Web 2.0 recruiting as it is the latest technique used in the field of recruitment. This involves attracting candidates from sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
Thank you.
From India, Mumbai
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Hi Venkatesh,
Can you please share it with me
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Chaitanya
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Buddy! Your topic is a hotcake. I recently designed a recruitment process for my company; I'll try to forward that to you.
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Hi All,
I am an MBA student currently doing my summer internship in HR. My project topic is studying the best recruitment strategies used presently in different industries. Can anyone please help me by providing information on some of the newer approaches or strategies in recruitment that are currently being used?
In Anticipation,
Ruhi Pathan
From India, Hyderabad
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Can you please share it with me
Chaitanya
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Originally Posted by venkatesh.n
Buddy! Your topic is a hotcake. I recently designed a recruitment process for my company; I'll try to forward that to you.
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Originally Posted by pathan_ruhi
Hi All,
I am an MBA student currently doing my summer internship in HR. My project topic is studying the best recruitment strategies used presently in different industries. Can anyone please help me by providing information on some of the newer approaches or strategies in recruitment that are currently being used?
In Anticipation,
Ruhi Pathan
From India, Hyderabad
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attached is presentation about behavioral interviewing techniques, I hope it will help. thanks Sumawed
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From United Arab Emirates, Dubai
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Dear Venkatesh,
Your topic is quite popular. I recently designed a recruitment process for my company. I will try to forward that to you.
Please forward the same to me as well.
Regards
From India, Madras
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Your topic is quite popular. I recently designed a recruitment process for my company. I will try to forward that to you.
Please forward the same to me as well.
Regards
From India, Madras
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Hi Shweta,
I am new to this forum and currently working on my SIP in HR. My project focuses on recruitment strategies, which seems to align with your topic as well. Could you please share your project with me? You can forward it to my email id: shipi.chawla@gmail.com.
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Ruhi
From India, Delhi
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I am new to this forum and currently working on my SIP in HR. My project focuses on recruitment strategies, which seems to align with your topic as well. Could you please share your project with me? You can forward it to my email id: shipi.chawla@gmail.com.
Regards,
Ruhi
From India, Delhi
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The topics discussed are very worthwhile and they are very important to the current needs of our industry
From India, Hyderabad
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Hi Venkatesh,
Asking for a suggestion is good, but as an HR professional, you should rely on your own thinking. Avoid using others' ideas to grow. While they might be helpful for a while, they may not be beneficial when you truly need them. So, please, think for yourself and make the right decisions.
Even if you struggle to come up with ideas, consider referring to HR books; they can provide you with some insights.
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Asking for a suggestion is good, but as an HR professional, you should rely on your own thinking. Avoid using others' ideas to grow. While they might be helpful for a while, they may not be beneficial when you truly need them. So, please, think for yourself and make the right decisions.
Even if you struggle to come up with ideas, consider referring to HR books; they can provide you with some insights.
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Hi, I am working with a company called CegonSoft in Chennai. We are into Training, Development, and Recruitment Solutions. We have many candidates who have completed their courses with us and have worked on live projects with us (Java, J2EE, .Net, Testing, PHP). If any corporations require fresher candidates, they can contact us immediately. For further information, please contact 9003098840.
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From United States
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Hi, I am not sure what the newer approaches/strategies are nowadays, but I see quite a few recruiters who are not even following the traditional practices. Practices like screening candidates and doing a fitment check. I would like to know what practices are followed in this area.
From India, Mumbai
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Dear Venkatesh,
Could you please help me with your recruitment process? I am already working on a similar project, and yours could certainly help me finalize mine. If possible, please post a thread on citehr or email me at umailkirti@gmail.com.
Thank you.
From India, New Delhi
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Could you please help me with your recruitment process? I am already working on a similar project, and yours could certainly help me finalize mine. If possible, please post a thread on citehr or email me at umailkirti@gmail.com.
Thank you.
From India, New Delhi
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Hi Ruhi,
In today's highly competitive environment, when a person has more than one job offer in hand, the best way of recruitment is by referral hiring as it gives the candidate assurance that they would not be treading alone on an unknown path. However, in the case of multiple positions, it is always better to seek the assistance of HR consultants as they have a ready database of resumes and access to various job portals.
Hope this has helped to solve your query in some way. Meanwhile, just provide me your email id and I'll send a copy of my project on recruitment and selection to you.
Regards,
Anika
From India, Dehra Dun
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In today's highly competitive environment, when a person has more than one job offer in hand, the best way of recruitment is by referral hiring as it gives the candidate assurance that they would not be treading alone on an unknown path. However, in the case of multiple positions, it is always better to seek the assistance of HR consultants as they have a ready database of resumes and access to various job portals.
Hope this has helped to solve your query in some way. Meanwhile, just provide me your email id and I'll send a copy of my project on recruitment and selection to you.
Regards,
Anika
From India, Dehra Dun
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