Hiring Strategy Tweaked
Search mandates are usually accompanied with Job descriptions with EEE details, Age band and more.
Education – With strong preference of specific institutes.
Experience – Coming from a specific industry or companies.
Age –from X to Y years.
Exposure: Usually domain related.
As consultants our emphasis and challenge has been to counsel the clients wherever possible, to look beyond the obvious, and focus on finding the leader who can do the job who may or may not conform to EEE and age restrictions. This while keeping an eye on his cultural compatibility and major leadership competencies.
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We are living in a disruptive volatile market where the need of right attitude, learnability, working in ambiguity maybe more important than pedigree or age. We are focusing on bringing in innovative thinking and change of mindset at leadership levels and search for people who have faced adversity successfully in different high performing industries.
However, we still see resistance to age and pedigree while hiring. We firmly believe if the person has success orientation and grit, has other attributes of adaptability, learnability, facing ambiguity, ability to inspire, she/he can surely bring in certain mojo, maturity to fit right for the assignment. US and Japan are classic examples where age is no barrier, as the world heads towards a silver Tsunami.
In a recent example for a CEO(USA) we had 2 candidates one mid 40s and the other early 60s who made it to the final round. The 60+ candidate was selected on count of fitment and culture and was a strong recommendation from us. The client hitherto was not open to a candidate of foreign decent, and had an age cutoff at 53 yrs. However, based on our relationship and persuasion they agreed to call both candidates to India for a final round. And finally the 60+ American of German descent got the job and has joined.
Would you be open to senior candidates who are a right fit for the job but not necessarily conform to the Role Specs/ JD?
Talk to us for your hiring needs in India ,EMEA or the US
General Counsel, Cube Highways | Top GC (Legal 500, Law Asia, Forbes, BW BusinessWorld)
1 年Totally echo the sentiment. Having interacted with Dusshyant personally, I feel Dusshyant's approach is way different and out of box. Wherein most of the other consultant just give in to what client asks, Dusshyant counsels and emphasis on the right fitment and not bothered by the stereotype. Time has come that we evolve to a new type of hiring....
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1 年Super article Dusshyant Arya . Agree with your observations. Ageism is surely an issue we need to be mindful about for both young and old.