TGIF

• Author: Amitai Givertz
• Posted: June 15, 2007
• Category: News and Events, Recruiting, Business Matters
• Tags: Center of Excellence, Performance Management, STREAMline Training, Training
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Let’s play a game. Which of the following is the odd man out?
 
Engineering Manager, VP of Administration, Hiring Manager or Production Supervisor; CFO, Plant Manager or Director of Nursing?
 
If you picked “Hiring Manager,” good job! No, not because in most instances the term “hiring manager” suggests a task and not a function but because hiring managers – in most cases at least – are not measured or held accountable for recruiting outcomes in the same way as a recruiter is. Of course, there are exceptions. There always are.
 
I’ve said before, recruiting is not an easy job even though great recruiters make it look that way. Assuming the recruiters “most obvious” job has been flawlessly executed we could expect that the sourcing and screening and selling of the job have resulted in a good stable of well-qualified, interested and engaged candidates for the hiring managers to play their own game of odd man out.

Here’s the reality. Unfortunately, very few hiring managers know much about selection or what it takes to interview a candidate and assess how good a job the recruiter has done in producing candidates. Most hiring managers do not understand how to asses a candidate against critical success factors like organizational fit, competency levels and potential, personal motivations and so on.

The problem with interview training for hiring managers is that whatever they learn they forget just as quickly. What they don’t forget they don’t apply. Yes, yes, there are exceptions but those simply prove the rule! Better yet, recruiter training that addresses these things and enables them to properly manage hiring managers and the selection process is likely to produce much better long-term results.

On Tuesday, June 26th we will be sharing some new approaches to dealing with this reality and sharing some techniques for actually changing it. Our STREAMline Recruiter Training Boot Camp and program primer will be held at the Marriott Perimeter Center, Atlanta, GA nd I would like to invite you to join me there.

Will you?