Next steps in Talent Attractions

Since last time we have seen what we need to understand about definition of the requirement should we even call it a search? This time we want to see what information do we capture for those correct definitions.

Always when acquiring talent it is important to define the audience, scope, geography, skill set (better if we can even get down the basics of versions), country, city, location within the city (east, west north & south), years of experience required, organizations we would want them from etc. It would always be better for us to have a pre-defined format with all these questions when we meet our stakeholders to capture these and this also gives them a wonderful picture / impression of how we can help them with this search (or how we would go about do this thing of attracting the best & the right talent. 

Not many stakeholders of ours would be ready with this information and not even 1% of the stakeholders would have even thought about these parameters from the hiring perspective. So it is very critical for us to help them understand these and also help them with these definitions and thereby make our job a lot simpler and easier to strategize and execute. Yes, I mean ‘Strategize’ (some even call it planning!). Without planning the search it would be difficult for us to start or go about this and at the end it even ends in a search which gives nothing and we come back stating ‘we are not able to attract anyone’. 

We sit with the hiring manager / head of the hiring unit to define these (even it means it takes about a week to define/give these information’s) and do a simple analysis based on Roles, level/grades, skills, locations, versions, domains and experience ranges. This would help us to showcase the steps we need would be taking post collecting all these information and our strategy (should I call it planning?) and gives us a clear idea of where the challenges are and how long would it take for us to meet these challenges. Also when we do this many a times the analysis gives us the solution as well!!!

Don’t want to believe me? Wait and watch!!!