Do they simply fill a headcount?

Having specialised in the young talent attraction & young talent development space for many years, I have snippets and observations which I share at every opportunity. Ad nauseum to anyone who cares to listen. Or not.

My Achilles heel, which is at the same time can be a gift for which I am recognised, is my inability to remain uninvolved and fully objective when it comes to the young people I so passionately want to see fly.

I struggle to see a recruitment process as a stand-alone, procedural exercise. After 22 years I have given up trying to do so and openly admit I have failed. It will never be ‘a process’ for me. Candidates place their trust in us talent attraction professionals. They place their aspirations, their career and their future in our hands.

With this context I’m concluding with a question. When hiring, how does an organisation strike a balance between being humane versus being cost and time effective? Are they mutually exclusive? Is there a tipping point? Or is it all about finding that bum for that seat?