Dear friends, thanks for all your comments on the earlier blog on the coming Talent War. How to get ready to fight this war? Yes, it is about training and retraining, yes it is about identification of your ‘A’ and ‘B’ players . But before all this, the Talent war is fought and won or lost at the beginning, at the recruitment stage. ‘ Recruit in a hurry and repent at leisure’ is one of the main perils for organisations today. There is too much pressure on HR to fill in the numbers. And how do we recruit right. By slowing down the recruitment process. Putting levels of elimination in place. Unfortunately our education system does not churn out ‘employable’ candidates . We will need humungous training effort. So we need recruitment processes that will select the ‘trainable’ candidates . I am a strong believer in the good old aptitude tests. Which will test the three ‘Rs’ ability to read, write and arithmetic. Evaluate and Eliminate. Spend more time on the selection process, get independent views from senior recruiters ( line managers) in the organization. Make the candidate meet at least 3 of your senior line leaders. Get at least 3 independent views. Make Selection one of the most important roles for line managers. Make Selecting right the first capability of your organization in this War for talent.
No comments:
Post a Comment