Why bother chasing talented people?
Why bother being good at recruitment?
Why bother trying to retain staff?
HR as a profession has not been good at talking business. Yet HR departments get bigger and bigger.
Why?
Because almost everyone seems to agree on one point - people matter to business.
What they don't have clarity on, and find it difficult to articulate, is exactly HOW and WHY they matter. And HR, the girls and guys that specialise in people, rarely gives a compelling answer to those questions.
That's why I am blogging. I want this to be a forum to talk about how and why talent matters, and how you get your unfair share of it.
Because if it doesn't matter to a business organisation, why bother? Who cares who you recruit, how you find them, how they perform, or how long they stay?
So, I'm going to start with one BIG idea.
#1 Organisations = #1 Recruiters
The New York Yankees, the Bolshoi Ballet, an Olympic Gold Medal winning Rowing Eight know that despite having the best coaches, facilities and culture in the world, if they don't find the best talent to begin with they cannot be number 1. And, to them, anything other than number 1 will not do.
In the corporate world we think of the likes of GE, Apple, Sony, etc. Simple. They do lots of other things well - but recruitment is where it starts for them.This is where they get their head start, which they never surrender back to their competitors.
In plain English - the best organisations in the world got that way because they were also the best recruiters.
Fantastic to see Recruitment and HR discussed as a strategic function of the business. Important for people internally and externally to take note of this evolution of our Industry.
Posted by: Hannah Asher | March 18, 2008 at 09:48 AM