Five Recruiting Scenarios - John Sumser's Lead-Up to ERE Expo 2010 Spring

"If there's ever been a time that resists planning, it's this time. And one of the things we call all do to make the economy move, is help each other figure out what's going to happen next." John Sumser

John Sumser

Welcome to a Inside Recruiting Channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today is Special Contributor to TotalPicture Radio, John Sumser.

John is the Founder and Editor of the recently launched HRExaminer. A well known industry analyst, Sumser is also the CEO of Two Color Hat, a media and HR Marketing Consultancy which provides product analysis, market segmentation, positioning, strategy and branding guidance for the Recruiting Industry and Human Resources Field. (In a past life, John sold doughnuts door-to-door. I sold vacuum cleaners. Maybe that's why we get along so well). In HRExaminer, John is writing an excellent series as a lead-up to his presentation and conversation at ERE Expo 2010 Spring in San Diego titled, The Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting.

At ERE Expo, John's presentation - Recruiting Disruption - will just cover enough of the basics to get a conversation started. Consider the following:

The recruiting profession is 30% to 50% smaller than it was 18 months ago.
Many more HR Generalists are filling the recruiting role.
Technology is changing rapidly.
A new generation is coming to work.
Sourcing is simultaneously separating from the selection process and transforming itself.
Meanwhile, good enough sourcing is on everyone’s desktop. It just keeps getting better.
Social Recruiting is grabbing a foothold.
Salary transparency makes candidates smarter about the deal.
Workplace reviews create brand management problems.
The effective unemployment rate of 18% creates a candidate deluge.
Budgets are trimmed to the bone.
The publishing industry, which once provided the infrastructure for employment advertising is dead.
Other industries are in peril creating a sea of displaced, disrupted workers.

Old ideas of privacy are under assault.
Economic forecasts are impossible to believe (your company’s or the government’s)
Employment branding is gaining traction in health-care markets.

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CareerXroads 9th Annual Source of Hire Study: Meltdown in 2009 and What It Means for a 2010 Recovery

"A trip down memory lane... in 1997, 28.7 percent of a hires were from newspaper ads. Guess what that number is today..."

Gerry Crispin

Welcome to an Inside Recruiting channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. For most HR and recruiting professionals following the podcasts here on TPR, Gerry Crispin needs no introduction. For those who don't know Gerry, and his partner Mark Mehler, they are the founders & principals of CareerXroads, and thought leaders in the human resources and recruiting industries.

For the past nine years CXR has published a free, public report on the "Source of Hire" -- a detailed description (free of vendor spin), about how one group of corporations fills their open positions, in the US/North America. You'll find a free PDF of the SOH report here. If you're in a career transition and want to see a real-world assessment of where and how (especially large) corporations recruited candidates for their open positions last year, here it is. If there's one word you should take-away from this report, as a job seeker, it's "referrals."

In the introduction, the authors write; "If the reader assumes that the data sliced and diced in this whitepaper is truly representative of where firms find their hires in the US, then you will have missed our point entirely. Indeed, this whitepaper, which we have published now for nearly a decade, is constructed as a lab report to examine the problems and the promise of how well corporations measure one part of the staffing process. "

"Our intent is to hold up a mirror so firms can look at themselves and their increasingly critical and vulnerable supply chain. Vendors can help, but only if staffing leaders are disciplined enough to do their part and get vendors to focus on needed changes as a priority."

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How to Create Meaningful Relationships with Executive Recruiters

Marc Lewis

Executive level job search today is frustrating, confusing, and can, at times, be completely demoralizing. People don't return your calls. Even headhunters don't call you back. Why? You have a twenty-year track record. Excellent references. Real accomplishments. You just spent $900 to have your resume rewritten. And still, you can't get arrested. You spend hours submitting your resume to Internet job listings and never get as much as a call-back.

In this Inside Recruiting Channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio, Peter Clayton will address these issues with an industry veteran, and get some clear answers.

Marc Lewis is Founder & CEO of the Leadership Capital Group. Marc has placed key executives at leading companies worldwide, from Global 500 to private equity backed startups and roll-ups backed by many domestic and international private equity firms. With industry background in finance and technology, he is recognized as an expert on management and human capital trends, quoted in publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune, Business Week, CIO Magazine, Information Week, Computerworld, CNET and Bloomberg.