Recruiting Animal

Mike Ramer Redux

Executive Recruiter and Trainer

Animal Show - Wed Sept 01, 2010 - NOON ET

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Gen Y is The Workless Generation

From TIMnovate

A lost generation of unemployed youth is emerging from the global economic crisis.

The jobless rate for Americans aged 16-19 has jumped to 26%, the worst job market in 60 years.

This is creating a generation that doesn’t know what work is like because they have never held a real job.

Reference: Teenage Wasteland, Chris Farrell, Bloomberg Business Week, August 10, 2010

Morit Rozen, Oct 26-28, ERE Expo, Hollywood Florida

Did Recruiters Help Hewlett Packard?

HP Plagued by Lop-Sided Hires

For a company to be great, it needs long-run vision and short-run operational excellence.

Carly Fiorina had a powerful vision for HP. She led the acquisition of Compaq - which turns out to have been a good deal - against fierce internal opposition.

But she lacked the operational skills to get the company doing what she wanted

She was replaced by Mark Hurd, a penny-pinching efficiency expert.

He slashed costs, boosted margins and destroyed HP’s future by slashing R&D investment from 9% of revenues to 2%.

From TIMnovate

Here's something funny.

Back in 2006, Business Week ran an article called The New Kingmakers Of Executive Placement. In it they praised Andrea Redmond and Charles Tribbett for "shaking up the staid world of executive recruitment".

The key to their success? "They're not old white men."

Together they are trying to get companies and their boards to think differently about leadership.

They talked HP into hiring Mark Hurd.

"There was no one on the board who had ever heard of Mark Hurd," admits one of HP's directors. And no one thought NCR [the company he was running] had the complexity of HP.

Even so, Redmond and Tribbett were certain Hurd was right for the job, and they worked hard to open the minds of the board members to that possibility.

Morit Rozen, ERE Expo, Oct 26 2010, Hollywood, Florida

Get Good Job Description

I know U2 busy to answer questions about the job U want me to fill, Missy Hiring Manager,

But I not gonna waste time making zero money looking 4 wrong guy -- and then have U dump all over me 4 doing lousy job.

So if you want what you need, U gotta gimme what I need too.

And what do I need?

- key responsibilities
- kinds of decisions this person's gonna make
- what new hire has to achieve in the 1st year

- must-have experience and education
- nice-to-have qualifications
- names of companies which hire well for this role

- direct reports
- dotted-line reports
- supervisors
- key stakeholders

- who's gonna interview my candidates
- best thing about the job
- hardest part of the job

List from Linda Brenner on ERE. Hat Tip Maureen Sharib on ERE.

Questions for the Hiring Manager. Taking a Job Description

Mike Ramer, Executive Recruiter and Trainer

Animal Show - Wed Aug 11 - NOON ET

Mike on Linkedin.

Mike on Twitter

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Call: 646-652-2754

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