Treat Recruitment like Business Development

In late 2018 the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that total job openings are the highest on record.

The US is also currently experiencing historically low unemployment. This is the new normal and we’ve seen it coming since McKinsey’s original “War for Talent” report in 1997! There is only one way to truly compete for top talent.
We MUST stop treating recruitment as a transactional process. We have to learn to play the long game and to employ strategies that are very similar to business development.

What is your organization doing differently to compete? I’d love to hear your stories. In fact, I’m in the process of collecting case studies for the 100% Human at Work Initiative’s new Experiments book.

Ignite Global Member since March 6, 2022

Ignite Global helps future-focused organizations build and retain the workforce they need to thrive in the Decade of Disruption. We will help you break through old-school paradigms to understand and embrace the Future (Now) of Work. In 2009 CEO and founder Kim Seeling Smith started Ignite Global after deciding that instead of being paid to put bums in seats (working as a recruiter for the 15 years prior to that) she wanted to help organizations keep the right bums in the right seats (recognizing that this starts with hiring the right people).