Party Like It's 1984

In read a recent Kevin Wheeler article earlier this month in ER Daily with some interest. As you can tell I'm a little behind inmy reading! Kevin nibbles around the edges of a topic that I believe spans much further than workforce planning--we are all recruiting like its 1984 again.

Wake up and smell the cofee! The dynamics of business have changed requiring all of us to look for a new kind of agile talent. Guess what? That agile talent does not have the mentality of job seeking. They are looking for an amazing and engaging project or company. The candidate has access to so much information about the company just by Googling it that they know more than the people they are interviewing with. Meanwhile most corporate sourcing and recruiting practices would make you think that candidates are lining up at the door dying to work for their companies forever. THAT HAS TO CHANGE in order to hire the top talent everybody keeps talking about.

I will be expanding on what I think that means in subsequent posts--stay tuned. Meantime, let me know what you think --I'd love to hear.