Introduction to Recruiting

When I teach my management classes the first topic I typically get into is Recruitment. There are many reasons for it, here are a few most important –

• Recruitment activities almost never stop, even during economic downturn like nowadays.
• Recruitment is never easy, even during “employer’s” market.
• Recruitment mistakes are some of the most expensive.
• Most of managers (including myself) overestimate their abilities to recruit right people.
• There is always a plenty of room for improvement in any organization’s recruitment process.

Recruiting is a key responsibility for majority of managers. In some organizations that is not the case, the managers are isolated from the recruitment process, and I feel sorry for these guys. While complex, laborious and error prone recruitment continues to be one of the best levers a manager have in building solid teams.

I will cover my views on recruitment, tips, tricks and traps in a series of posts, for now let me just cover the basics.