The Phony War For Talent

Vin Dieselevy sez

1. There's a war for talent because job requirements are insanely inflated.

Every hiring manager thinks she needs an Einstein when a sub-elite person would do just fine.

2. There's a reason hiring managers get away with this.

HR departments are too cheap to hire good recruiters who have the backbone to stand up to their unreasonable demands.

Comments

[Jim Durbin]

Good point CH, or rather good catch.

My time working with large staffing agencies taught me this - clients often asked for top talent, but the majority of employment systems we worked with were ill-suited at hiring top talent.

The vast middle is where the public companies make their money. Which is to say that public companies went where they could make money, which is placing the average worker, not the top one.

And these systems (vendor lists and their offspring, the VMS) are designed that way. Quality of hire is measured by number of submittals, number of hires, and length of stay, not by contribution to the bottom line.

When you measure what is easiest, rather than what is important, you distort your talent acquisition process.

but then again - there's room for everyone.