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Can Recruiting Ever Be Fully Reimagined?
Applicant Tracking Systems Need to Be Upended
Over the past few months, I’ve had a wonderful experience partnering with a global organization and their executive team to recruit a new Managing Director who will be opening up this global firm’s first subsidiary office in the United States.
While the candidate pool included many talented leaders well suited for the role, this entire process offered reminders about the extent to which recruiting is in need of continuous disruption, one that reimagines a forward thinking, human centric, innovative talent acquisition process.
For most of us working today, from front line employees to the executive suite, none of this is surprising news.
Referrals are King
Everyone knows that referrals into an organization for a key role has consistently been regarded as the top way to source talent. Referred employees are four more times likely to be employed than those who are not.
Referrals go much farther faster than sending resumes and cover letters into what has long been regarded as the notorious black hole — the dreaded applicant tracking system — places where candidate resumes often go to die in a digital pile of hundreds, if not thousands, of applications for one job…
