Leading on from idea #1, comes this one...
What if senior management in a firm suspended decades of tradition for just a month or so, and decided to ignore the dollars and find out what it would take to smash their competitors in the talent market? I mean just pin the ears back and throw open the door to whatever it would take to REALLY address the issue?
I am betting a few things would happen.
Firstly, if they got some ORIGINAL thinkers with strong professional-level recruitment backgrounds on the job, they would come up with some EXCELLENT solutions that would work (hopefully I'll be starting the ball rolling with some blog posts to come).
Secondly, having had their minds opened, they would abondon the idea that "good enough" is good enough. They would toss the idea of benchmarking themselves against competitors, and start imagining the possibilities of implementing these ideas that would change the recruitment game in their market.
Thirdly, they just might be tempted by the dilectible prospect of jumping the opposition,and get the proposals fully costed.
Finally, someone, somewhere, (a Managing Partner, CEO, even HRD?) would find the guts to get behind the strategy, sell it to investors and management, and argue for it as a "company-maker" style of investment that will propel them to the forefront of the sector.
A move that would change the game...wow what a prospect!
PS...this firm would also prove in the medium term that this investment is nothing compared to the returns realised, and that in fact it drastically reduces other costs associated with poor recruitment strategies like undisciplined agency spending, high turnover amongst "new hires", and worst of all - chronically unfilled vacancies.
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