Parallels in Recruitment Process and Product Management

Are you confused reading the title? How are Product Management and Recruitment process linked? One is a Product and other is a Person, how it’s possible to create parallels?

Don’t worry, I am here to clarify it.

Recruitment is the process of identifying, screening, hiring, and eventually onboarding qualified job candidates. It’s carried out mainly by Human Resources.

Product Management is an Organizational function that deals with new product creation, business rationale, planning, verification, forecasting, pricing, product launch, and marketing at all phases of the product lifecycle.

So, can we portray parallels in Product Management and Recruitment process? It’s absolutely possible.

BLOCK DIAGRAM — PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AND RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Let’s break down (in align to block diagram stages) the Recruitment Process and Product Management lifecycle and see its similarities:

STAGE 1:

Recruitment – Attracting prospective candidates for active job openings in Organization

Product Management – Proposing to Client on why to choose our company ‘X’ over others in market and specifying old, successful projects done with other clients?

STAGE 2:

Recruitment – Acquiring candidate CV/Resumes via ATS (Applicant Tracking System) or Internal Job portal

Product Management – Client sign-off for Product Development initiation and get clarity on their requirements

STAGE 3:

Recruitment – Shortlisting CV/Resumes in align to Job description

Product Management – Preparing Product Roadmap in align to Client needs

Recruitment – Scheduling Job Interviews

Product Management – Strategic version of Product Development (Prioritization)

STAGE 4:

Recruitment – Conducting interviews

Product Management – Product Design and Development

STAGE 5:

Recruitment – Assess candidates and select/offer best talents

Product Management – Conducting Product Testing, Client Demo and reconfiguration based on final Client inputs. Launching final product

STAGE 6:

Recruitment – Onboard new talents in Organization

Product Management – Customer’s satisfaction on desired product usage

STAGE 7:

Recruitment – Analyse Recruitment Metrics for long term success and strategize in the future. Sample tools include: Zoho, IBM Watson, TalentLyft

Product Management – Implement Product Analytics for future product enhancements. Sample tools include: Amplitude, Mixpanel, Zoho, Pendo

Now, you would have understood how Product Management and Recruitment Process intertwine each other.

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