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FINAL REPORT

TOPIC:
RECRUITING AND SELECTION.

SUBMITTED TO:
MS Shagufta Rafif.

SUBMITTED BY:
Hadia Tariq.
Junaid Khan.
Sadia Muzaffar.

DATE:
THEORATICAL
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PRACTICAL
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CONCLUSION!
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Recruiting & Selection.

INDEX
1. Acknowledgement
2. Introduction
3. The topic
4. Importance to the topic
4.1. Essentials
4.2. Goals of Recruitment
4.3. Future Need
4.4. Proactive ness
4.5. Recruitment Alternatives

5. The Theory Side


5.1. Recruitment Defined
5.2. Recruitment and Culture
5.3. Recruiting Culture
5.4. Characteristics of Recruiting Culture
5.5. Benchmarks of Recruiting culture
5.6. Should be or not?
5.7. The sources
5.8. Recruitment and Technology

6. The Practical Side


6.1. Introduction to Johnson’ & Johnson’s
6.2. Growth & Expansion
6.3. Current HR practices
6.4. Recruiting methods
6.5. Failure’s

7. Time Case
7.1. Reasons
7.2. Preventive measures

8. Recommendations
8.1. Suggestions
8.2. Definition of reference
8.3. How to Reference Referral works?
8.4. Advantages of using reference referral
8.5. Hiring advice for small businesses
8.6. The 20 Rules for Great recruitment

9. The Competitive Intelligence


10. The Conclusion
AKNOWLEDGEMENT

We bow with humble gratitude before Allah the Almighty for providing us the
ability to complete this report in very short span of time. We are thankful to our
teacher, Miss Shagufta Rafif for her keen interest and support in our studies and
especially for the Cooperation she extended towards the preparation of this
report.

Finally, we are very thankful to Mr.Tariq Saeed Manager Human Resources for
Johnson & Johnson for his cooperation and time he spent with us. The practical
knowledge he gave us is also highly appreciable.
2. INTRODUCTION

The changing world order has compelled us to take hard look at the ways and means
through which we manage workforce. Research has shown time and again that human
resource management practices can make an important, practical difference in terms of
three key organizational outcomes; productivity, quality and profit.

Founder of the faint electronics believes “The enterprise is the people.” Without people,
organizations could not function. Conversely, people need organizations so that they may
satisfy their needs and wants and also maintain their standard of living along with
modern society of global village of today.

In order to manage people effectively in today’s world of work; it is essential to


understand and appreciate the significant competitive, legal and social issues.
Organizations are managed and staffed with people of all walks. Without people,
organizations cannot exist. Indeed, challenge, opportunity and frustration of creating and
managing organization frequently stem from people-related problems that arise within
them. People-related problems in turn, frequently stem from the belief that people are
alike, so they can be treated identically.

Human Resources Management (HRM) involves in establishment and execution of


policies, programs and procedures which influence performance, capabilities, and loyalty
of employees of an organization. Through these polices and procedures, individuals are
attracted, retained, motivated and developed to perform their work devotedly. Through
these polices and procedures an organization seeks to mold and reshape the actions of its
employees to operate successfully. HRM provides satisfactory quality of employment,
and improves the marketplace through strengthened abilities of services.

This report is all about the Human Resource Management practices in our culture. The
theme of this report is to find out the ways and methods running in our corporate culture
and compare those procedures with the International and standard market. The targeted
organization is J&J which is dealing in baby care and beauty products. An international
business from couple of decades. J&J has their Head Office in Karachi.

We will see there that how they are doing HR practices and specially target the
Recruitment and selection activities in it. The comparison will give us the brief
information about the differences and similarities between our culture and international
market. The base of this report that will compare the practical scenario is from book,
which is written by foreign writers.
3. THE TOPIC

The topic is Recruiting and Selection. It is one of the most important and very primary
objective and purpose of any HR department. The time has gone when the companies
were doing businesses within their own domain, its no more the like that, the world is
now like a global village where each and every thing is changing very rapidly. This rapid
change also affects the consumer attitude and behavior as well, they companies are now
facing very intense competition. Each and every thing is now very demanding and in
order to be proactive and face this dynamic market, companies has to do very proper and
fit planning with the help of some creative, innovative and hardworking personals. The
task is very tough to search and keep the best in your organization. Every one is looking
for the best. Labor demand has increased due to less supply in almost all areas. Our goal
is to touch the heart of Recruitment and selection activity. How to handle this dynamic
world in terms of these activities and how to plans for the future will be our core issues.

4. THE IMPORTANCE
The importance of this topic can’t be hidden. It is one of the most primary and important
areas of HR department. This is intact one of the primary duty of the department.

In this dynamic span of time in our business market, the competition is very intense.
Firms are not going for the maximum in short but to have some average for long,
specially out of Pakistan. In such requirement, there must be some very hard working and
creative persons will be the only choice of any organization. The HR department has to
arrange this all by Recruiting and Selection activities.

4.1 Is it essential?

The Management is itself an activity to perform some tasks containing leading,


planning, organizing, controlling and sometimes staffing as separate as well. The
staffing in our view is the only basis on which the company does all practices
within an organization because the activities mentioned above are all about the
manpower. If you do planning, , it could be multi dimensional, for your company
and your labor. The same is for other activities as well. Having some sound
workers in your company always helpful in terms of implementing all the
management essentials.

4.2 The Goals of Recruitment


The ultimate goals of staffing function are to keep the potential candidates intact
and keep the pool full by reserve candidates. It requires proper future planning
and some smartness. The whole picture could be change in a very split time so the
staffing has to be there in very updated and proactive fashion.
The old theory of lifetime employment is over now. Companies now seek to
increase the marketability of their staff, both within and outside the firm’s
compound. Organizations need staff, which is flexible, mobile and possess
multitasking capabilities. This mobility means workers are not looking for the
rational long-term benefits but want cash upfront. Thus, compensation packages
need to be structured accordingly. Attracting and retaining top talent has always
remained challenge and will be more so in the new economy of tomorrow. The
message of HRM is clear - adapt, add value and make an impact on the bottom
line. Doing so, it will be easy to understand the exceptions of the department for
the customer’s point of view and clarify its own role. The HRM Advisors will
have to become ready for solution creatively and cost effectively. The Advisor
will have to take time to understand the business in all its complexities, showing
how to get things done effectively and beneficially for an organization.
Technology will play big part for HRM utilization as more and more processes
can be made available online in future around the global village. Another thing
HRM can do, is to improve its image and functioning by measuring its
performance against other departments through benchmark techniques.

4.3 Future Need

International environment is changing rapidly. Nothing is permanent, and the


cause of yesterday’s success may be the cause of tomorrow’s failure because
world is global village now. Today’s leaders must assume the responsibility for
creating new models of management systems because many assumptions on
which management practices achieved up-till-now are becoming obsolete. The
world of Human Resource Management is changing more rapidly. Constant
environmental changes mean that HRM needs changes for competing new
challenges. They must respond by taking advantage of gradual, yet profound
changes in the nature of field, current practices, and overall human resource
management policies, mission and vision etc. The capability of HRM to cope
with and manage within such an environment is a vital element in the success of
any business of life. The new business context is compelling management to take
greater interest in the utilization of their organization’s human resources.

4.4 Proactive ness

Human Resources Management (HRM) involves in establishment and execution


of policies, programs and procedures which influence performance, Capabilities,
and loyalty of employees of an organization. Through these polices and
procedures, individuals are attracted, retained, motivated and developed to
perform their work devotedly. Through these polices and procedures an
organization seeks to mold and reshape the actions of its employees to operate
successfully. HRM provides satisfactory quality of employment, and improves
the marketplace through strengthened abilities of services.

4.5 Recruitment Alternatives

The recruitment process as we have discussed that is about to bring some


potential candidates for an organization. However economic realities coupled
with management trends such as rightsizing have resulted in a slightly different
focus. More and more companies today are looking for part time or temporary
employees and these all are available through different third party agencies and
job centers whose working is to just allocate some potential candidates in
different organizations as part time or temporary employees, they workers works
on contract jobs as well.
There are some recruitment alternatives in the following, which are now a days in
very great demand due to some different strategy for recruitment by companies.
These includes,

Temporary Help services are one of the sources of providing temporary


employees for jobs. Their might be some new such agencies and companies in
our culture but so far its not so we have to find out such agencies if we want to
use this all through other sources.

Employee leasing is another source of providing temporary employees. It sends


different individuals by hiring them for some other company for some specific
period of time. These leased employees are very well trend and skilled persons.
They screened by the leasing firms and their training and development is done by
the leasing firm, if it is required there. The acquiring organizations pay some fee
for these employees to the leasing company, The workers working there return
back to the leasing firm when the project for which they sanded is over.

Independent contractors are another source of temporary employees. They often


referred as consultants. The company can hire some individual contractor for
hiring employees within their premises or outside that.

Independent contractors arrangements benefits both for company and the


candidates because the company has to regard this individual as an employee. It
saves cost associated with full time or part time personnel, like social security
taxes and workers compensation premiums. Additionally, such opportunity is also
a means of keeping good individuals associated with your company.

5. RECRUITMENT DEFINED
The word RECRUITMENT refers to the process of gather, searching, keeping or offering
potential candidates for the job. This is what we have been studied so far about recruiting
but its not just to that. Its more than this.

In order to be successful and have competitive advantage in the market, you need to have
some well organized and skilled workforce in your organization. Successful employee
planning is designed to identify an organizations human resource needs. Once there
needs are known, an organization will want to do something about meeting them. The
next step, then in the staffing function assuming of course, that demand for certain skills,
knowledge and abilities is greater than the current supply, is recruiting.

The activity makes this possible for a company to acquire the people necessary to ensure
the continued operation of the organization. Recruiting is the process of discovering
potential candidates for actual or anticipated organizational vacancies. In other
perspective, it is a linking activity that brings together those with jobs to fill and those
seeking jobs.

The recruitment process should be capable to give enough information about the job so
the each and every candidates could analyze the required with his capabilities. It makes
the whole process easy for the recruiter because by giving extensive information about
the job separates the unqualified candidates form the list and that makes the list filtered.

5.1 Recruitment & the culture

In every profession, there's a hierarchy of common strategies that organizational


leaders can select from and implement to meet the needs of their organization.

In the recruiting profession, the strategy at the top of the hierarchy is a "recruiting
culture" strategy. Nicknamed by many as "the ultimate strategy," a
recruiting culture strategy is one that transforms every employee into a 24/7 talent
scout. Visiting an organization that employs such a strategy is a take-your-breath-
away experience — because recruiting, rather than being some obscure function
buried within the HR bureaucracy, is recognized as a primary driver of business
success.

Yes, the business success, not HR success. The single factor that makes a
recruiting culture unique is the realization among executives, managers, and
employees that great recruiting is essential in order to "move the needle" of
business success. This realization enables recruiting to permeate the very fiber of
the organization. Using any criteria, building a recruiting culture should be the
goal of any recruiting director worth their weight in salt.

Unfortunately, recruiting cultures are beyond the capabilities or even interests of


most recruiting directors, and as a result, they're as scarce as tofu .From
observation, there have only been a handful of recruiting cultures developed in
recent history. Each has been a true work of art convincing the entire organization
from the CEO on down that recruiting is so critical that everyone must be an
active talent scout.

For organizations that have achieved implementation of this pinnacle strategy, the
mere thought of shifting responsibility or ownership of a business-critical success
factor to an outside vendor via outsourcing is laughable. This elite group
understands the value recruiting can bring to the bottom line and have a lot of
lessons to share.

5.2 What Is a Recruiting Culture?

A recruiting culture is a recruiting strategy that shifts the responsibility of


recruiting to managers and employees. While the recruiting department provides
leadership, every individual and department in the organization is assigned a
prominent role in recruiting. No individual is exempt.

The process of building a recruiting culture begins with convincing senior


executives that recruiting is so important that it must permeate the entire
organization. In essence, recruiting becomes a business imperative.

The first step in accomplishing this is to build a "dead bang" business case which
convinces the CEO and the CFO that recruiting impacts business results as much
as other critical functions like marketing, R&D, and sales. Once buy-in has been
achieved, the next step involves the CEO making it clear to everyone that he or
she is the Chief Recruiting Officer for the organization, and as such, he or she
will lead the charge to ensure that there is excellence in recruiting throughout the
organization.

The business case must also be designed to convince every manager and
employee that they too must play a critical role in recruiting. In effect, every
manager and employee must be convinced that their personal business results,
bonuses, stock value, and even their job security depends on them working
alongside the very best people in the industry, and that the only way to ensure that
they work alongside the very best is for everyone to work tirelessly 24/7 as a
talent scout for the organization.

Examples Illustrating a Performance Culture

Perhaps two examples can further distinguish how recruiting cultures are unique:

1. In a recruiting culture, involving everyone in recruiting is critical,


and organization-wide involvement is certainly the hallmark of
FirstMerit Bank, which is one of the newest recruiting cultures that
have been developed. Under the tutelage of Michael Homula, the
bank achieved amazing recruiting results including a nearly 60
percent referral hire rate without a formal referral program.
Practices also include an offer presentation process that requires all
candidates given an offer to make referrals; a plan for recruiters
and managers to visit the competition to recruit away talent; and a
CEO who requested the director of recruiting present at the annual
shareholders meeting on the economic impact of recruiting. As
you can see, every employee, every new hire, and even managers
are expected to be talent scouts and in addition, the CEO was so
convinced of the value of recruiting that he placed recruiting on
the agenda of the annual meeting.
2. Recruiting cultures are also very aggressive in their approach. In
this example, a firm that is building a recruiting culture actively
participated in the practice of aggressively poaching top talent
from its competitors. When the firm's legal office received a well-
written letter challenging the poaching practice from a lawyer at a
competing firm, instead of getting intimidated, the head of
recruiting acted like a true recruiter and asked for and received
permission from their own legal advisors to recruit the lawyer who
wrote the cease-and-desist letter. Yes, in a recruiting culture, even
lawyers are recruiters.

5.3 Characteristics of a Recruiting Culture

In order to give you a clear picture of the key elements of a recruiting culture, will
highlight the key elements that are generally required to be classified a true a
recruiting culture.

These characteristics or focuses include:

Executive support. The CEO publicly declares themselves to be the "Chief


Recruiting Officer" for the organization and also makes it clear that they accept
the responsibility for ensuring that everyone contributes to the recruiting effort.

Every employee is a recruiter. Every employee is told prior to being given an


offer letter that no matter what their job title, they are expected to seek out the
very best "future coworkers" 24/7. In some recruiting cultures, they go the next
step, which involves customers and former employees as both recruiting targets
and referral sources.

A strong brand. The entire organization commits to building the strongest


employment brand (external reputation and image) in the industry by doing its
part to ensure that the organization's best management practices are talked about
in the media and at industry events. Having every employee talking to and
sharing success stories with numerous colleagues and strangers as part of the
referral program also contributes to building a strong brand reputation.
Top-performer focus. The focus is on identifying currently employed top
performers for all key jobs (as opposed to unemployed individuals). Because they
are top performers and already have a job, they are the hardest to recruit and the
most valuable once they are landed. Because these individuals are currently
employed, "personal courting" and relationship-building approaches are used to
build their trust and to convince them over time that they should join the
organization.

Referral program. The primary recruiting tool is the employee referral program
because not only does it produce the best results but it also involves every
employee in the recruiting process. While referral bonuses might be offered, the
key driver is convincing employees that it's in their own best interests to build a
team of employees that can drive business results. In a recruiting culture, referrals
are expected not just from employees but also from consultants, vendors, and
even customers.

Competitive analysis. The strategic goal is for recruiting not just to be "good
overall," but to be a sustainable competitive advantage for the firm. As a result,
the recruiting department completes a competitive analysis which directly
compares its recruiting program, practices, and results to those of the firm's
primary talent competitors. As part of this side-by-side comparison process,
"competitive slotting" (hiring to counter the strengths and weaknesses of your
competitors) is also an important part of the strategy.

Source impact. The recruiting department constantly gathers data to first identify
and then to focus the organization's efforts on the sources that have actually
produced top-performing hires. This data generally shows that recruiting should
focus on recruiting away the very best at other firms using referrals and
industry/professional events.

Recruiting is rewarded. Because great recruiting, retention, internal movement,


and employee development are critical to every manager's success, they are made
a significant part of each manager's bonus criteria.

A sales and marketing approach. All recruiting cultures realize that recruiting is
just another form of selling and as a result, the recruiting department works
closely with the sales and marketing departments to ensure that recruiting
practices "mirror" the very best sales strategies and approaches.

Internal competition. Recruiting and retaining top performers must become a


business success metric f or every function and business unit. Competition
between managers and teams should be enhanced by distributing ranked
recruiting and referral results to all managers and employees so that everyone
knows who is doing and not doing their part.
Future focused. Rather than just reacting to openings, processes are developed to
ensure that sufficient talent is available in advance for growth and new business
initiatives. This means that workforce planning is an integral part of both business
planning and recruiting.

Retention and blocking. Because recruiting cultures are so successful at


attracting top performers and building their external image, their own employees
may become the targets of other firms that also want to be the best. Rather than
bemoaning that fact, they consider it a compliment. However, they don't just sit
back; they have an aggressive process for identifying who might be poached, who
is doing the poaching, and what is needed to retain critical talent. A "blocking
strategy" is implemented to minimize losses.

Jobs are prioritized. Even in a recruiting culture, focus your recruiting efforts
and resources on the jobs that have the most business impact. As a result,
recruiting cultures identify mission-critical jobs and key business units and then
they prioritize their time and budgets to match those priorities.

Speed. Because the top-performing individuals that recruiting cultures are


targeting are often snapped up within days of deciding to leave their current or
organization, recruiting cultures develop processes which, while they assess
individuals over time, still have the capability of literally hiring them in one day,
when the marketplace demands it.

Evergreen jobs. Most recruiting cultures realize that there are certain skills that
the organization will never have too many of. As a result, a few mission-critical
jobs are designated as evergreen jobs, where hiring is continuous without the need
for an open requisition.

Candidates are treated like customers. In a recruiting culture, the wooing


process is expected to take a long time because top performers already have a job
and are likely to be treated well at their current firm. Recruiting cultures realize
that every interaction with potential candidates over this long period is a critical
opportunity to impress them. As a result, recruiting works with the customer
relationship management department to ensure that its recruiting processes treats
candidates like customers. This means using a customer relationship management
approach not only in how they are treated (i.e. A Candidate's Bill of Rights) but
also by assessing their satisfaction and by gathering critical information about the
specific criteria that must be met before each individual will accept a job with
your firm.

5.4 Who Are the Benchmark Recruiting Cultures?

When you have a recruiting culture, it is so obvious to everyone who interacts


with the firm that recruiting is a primary focus. Whether you formally declare
yourself to be pursuing a recruiting culture or not, your actions will make it clear
that you are striving to become one.

It's also important to note that firms with recruiting cultures don't automatically
have the most industry-leading best practices. Although having best practices is
important, the key distinguishing feature is that recruiting cultures have an
integrated approach that permeates the entire organization. It is this integration
coupled with the sharing of the recruiting role that delineates them from best-
practice leaders. Some of the organizations that currently are or are striving to be
recruiting cultures include:

Quicken Loans: The one to watch with some take-your-breath-away plans that
could make them the best of all time.

Google: No one has invested more in recruiting than Google, and its top
executives are an integral part of all hiring.

FirstMerit Bank: An amazing track record that will be hard to maintain now that
its recruiting director has left.

Southwest Airlines: Building and maintaining a recruiting culture in an industry


dominated by unions and that changes at "the speed of rock" can only be
classified as amazing.

Booz Allen: It does amazing things with referrals, internal movement, and
boomerangs. An integrated approach that is second to none.

SAS: One of the original employment-brand giants, its comprehensive branding


and overall HR strategy have made it world-famous.

The Container Store: It has turned recruiting into an art form in the retail field
that seldom celebrates recruiting. The #1 Best Place to work in America two
years in a row, it has made selling boxes into a glamour job.

Baptist Health Care: It does the impossible in an industry that routinely claims
that successful recruiting is nearly impossible.

MGM Grand: With the CEO's sponsorship, this firm has done some amazing
things without bragging .

Wegman's Food Markets: Its CEO's long-time involvement at the store level
has built a culture that was recognized as the #1 best place to work in America as
a grocery store, proving that it doesn't take glamour to be a recruiting
machine.
HealthEast: My personal favorite, it has done what many would say were
impossible things in recruiting and workforce planning, despite its size and
location.

The New York Yankees: In the one area where recruiting is always king, sports,
this organization has made recruiting the very best players its number one
business goal, regardless of costs.

Intuit: With Michael McNeil leading the team, the sky is the limit.

Cisco: The original recruiting culture seems to be making a strong comeback.

The U.S. Marines: Although it probably didn't do it as part of an integrated


recruiting plan, its branding, referral, and "alumni involvement" is a model that
everyone could learn from.

A recruiter must ensure that the labor he is looking for some project or company
should reflect the same cultural ethics. It should not be from external and totally
isolated background from the culture where its going to act.
Globally, when we are doing recruitment, we must ensure the relevant labor
market in order to have better understanding of cultural values, attitudes and
behaviors or individuals so one or the whole company can have better output in
means of communication and most importantly productivity as well.
This is to some extent, not a very common case in fact it all depends upon the
requirement and the nature of business as well.

5.5 Should be or not…

A recruiter must ensure this as well that the availability of the labor he is looking
should be the most relevant to the field in which he requires candidates. Most of
the organization just compromise in this regard that whatever the education or
experience a candidate have, they just select him due to some special references
or salary compromise by candidate.
In our country and other developing countries, these cases are very common. Its
not with the whole picture but the exceptions are always present at every stage.
Small scale businesses and to some extent middle scale also does this for just to
save some money on the cost of company image, productivity and the efficiency.
It should not be there in real means, we must ensure the right man for right job ,
not the wrong choice for right place.

5.6 The sources…

The sources of recruitment became very advanced due to the technological


emergence in our businesses. The sourcing for candidates has been significantly
enhanced with the use of the internet. Organizations like recruiters online network
are able to advertise job openings and reach many more individuals than was
thought possible. And an online recruiting effort can reach more potential job
candidates at a lower cost. Moreover, Internet is rewriting all the rules. Jobs at all
levels can be advertised on the internet, and access to literally millions of people
is possible.
There are certain sources of recruiting that might be effective for a recruiter.
The Internal search can occur through current employees, who have either bid for
a job, been identified through the organizations human resource management
system, or even been referred by a fellow employee. The employee referrals are
another type of internal search that is like the current employee referring to his
known person or unknown but with some know how recommends him for some
vacancy. The external searches may include the advertisement in news paper,
internet and other source of information that interacts with external environment
of the company. It may include the ads in universities, employment agencies and
a blind box ad.

5.7 Recruiting & technology

Recruiters have typically been slow to adopt technology. Probably less than 30%
of all organizations use applicant tracking systems, although they were the first of
the tools available more than a decade ago. Though most large companies have
put them in place, in many cases they have done so to deal with the administrative
recordkeeping that is required by Federal law.

Job boards are the next most commonly used form of technology. Perhaps
because they are cheaper and easier to understand than applicant tracking system,
even more organizations are using them. Recruiting websites are also common
now, but most organizations have implemented very simple ones that do not use
much technology.

Candidate or talent relationship management software, workforce and succession


planning tools, screening and assessment software, and communication tools such
as instant messaging (IM) are used by only a handful of the leading companies.

Most organizations recruit essentially the same way they did 30 years ago. The
only obvious difference between recruiting today and then is the increased use of
job boards and email and the decreased use of newspaper advertisements and
paper resumes.

Organizations have successfully lowered the cost of corporate banking by using


the Internet more effectively. They have decreased the cost of computing, the cost
of accounting and bookkeeping, and the cost of janitorial services. But the cost of
recruiting is the same, and in some organizations, higher than it was just a few
years ago.
Why don't recruiters adopt technologies more quickly? Can technology
make a difference or is recruiting something that has to done face to face?

The answer is that technology can and will over time significantly improve the
efficiency and the quality of recruiting, but it must be adapted with care and only
after a strategy and implementation process is in place.

Technology bought because it is in favor at the time, because the recruiting


manager or director likes it, or because the IT department thinks it would be a
good idea will most likely fail to be widely accepted. Technology should be
implemented according to a master plan that will move the organization down a
logical and flexible path toward a technically advanced recruiting function.
Random approaches and attempts to implement software, as it is available or
according to a fad, inevitably lead to failure.

Well-implemented software can reduce the number of recruiters you need or let
you deploy them more effectively where humans still have an edge — in
sourcing, branding, and selling your organization to candidates. Let the
technology assume the responsibilities for screening and initial assessment.
Technology can improve candidate quality, reduce the number of candidates you
have to produce before a hire happens, and let you know more about your
successful candidates so you can find more of them.

The technology is one of the core issues in almost every area of the business. It
becomes a very compulsory tool to make ourselves competitive and challenging
for future demands. There are some examples and names of different foreign
companies who are using different techniques and technology for their recruiting
and staffing functions. These are here with their name, function and the
information of the technology they are using. Let’s see that to what extent
technology have affected recruitment and staffing.

Staffing

VCG Inc. has released WebPAS 4.0, the newest version of its popular recruiting
and staffing software. This software tool includes new functions designed to
streamline a number of administrative processes for recruiters. For example,
WebPAS now offers e-mail integration with Microsoft Outlook, which allows
users to select specific or multiple e-mails with a single click. In addition, the
software can generate new job candidate profiles automatically from an e-mail if
needed. The software also provides recruiters and staffing managers a complete
record of all electronic communications with clients or job candidates related to
specific job placements.

 Contact: www.vcgsoftware.com; e-mail: info@vcgsoftware.com


Temp Works Software Inc. has created a new web-based job applicant portal for
its suite of web-based recruiting and hiring services. By using the new applicant
portal, a job candidate can complete online job applications quickly and submit a
resume, automatically creating a record within the TempWorks system. The
applicant portal also allows prospective employees to search a staffing company’s
database of open jobs for positions that may fit their qualifications. Applicants
then have the option to view further details, submit an e-mail to alert the staffing
company, add a job posting to their list for further review, and e-mail information
on a position to a friend or colleague.

 Contact: www.tempworks.com; e-mail: blarson@tempworks.com

Virtual Edge Corp. has announced the release of VE Salute, a new tool for
improving the orientation and training of new hires. VE Salute is designed to
streamline and accelerate the process of integrating new hires into an organization
and help ensure that they become productive and valued employees. The new
software tool features a self-serve portal that provides new hires with the
information they need to perform their jobs. VE Salute automates and streamlines
many orientation procedures that HR managers have to administer manually.

 Contact: www.virtualedge.com; llevan@virtualedge.com

6. INTRODUCTION TO J&J
Founded in 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Headquarters
situated in New Brunswick for more than 115 years.
International expansion started in 1919 with J&J Canada.

The development of the first ready-made, ready-to-use surgical dressings by Johnson &
Johnson in the mid-1880s marked not only the birth of a company, but also the first
practical application of the theory of antiseptic wound treatment. A new product, based
on a new surgical concept, led to a dramatic reduction in the threat of infection and
disease, which claimed an appalling number of postoperative victims.

The story begins with the discoveries of Sir Joseph Lister, a noted English surgeon, who
identified airborne germs as a source of infection in the operating room. He called them,
with grim aptness, the "invisible assassins." Medical science was beginning to
understand, however imperfectly, the need for greater care in protecting the wound area.
Yet, this concept of myriad living organisms, unseen and deadly, remained beyond the
grasp of many surgeons in the 19th century who were doubtful or even contemptuous of
Lister's work.

One man who did not question his theory of antisepsis was Robert Wood Johnson, who
heard Lister speak in 1876. For years afterward Robert Wood Johnson nurtured the idea
of a practical application of Lister's teachings. What he had in mind was a new type of
surgical dressing, ready-made, sterile, wrapped and sealed in individual packages and
suitable for instant use without the risk of contamination.

Prior to Lister's discoveries, the postoperative mortality rate was as high as 90 percent in
some hospitals. Surgeons could not bring themselves to believe they were contaminating
their own patients by operating ungloved with un sterile instruments.

Lister's methods required complex and cumbersome equipment suited only to the largest
hospitals, of which there were few. A solution or a spray of carbolic acid bathed the
operating room and the patient in a foggy mist. Still, it was a major advance over
accepted procedures: unclean cotton, collected from sweepings on the floors of textile
mills, was used for surgical dressings; surgeons operated in street clothes and wore a
blood-spattered frock coat like a badge of honor.

Robert Wood Johnson concluded there ought to be a better way. Mr. Johnson joined with
his two brothers, James Wood and Edward Mead Johnson, who had formed a partnership
in 1885. Operations began in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1886 with 14 employees
on the fourth floor of a small building that once was a wallpaper factory. In 1887 the
Company was incorporated as Johnson & Johnson. With few hospitals in the United
States in 1887 large enough to use Lister's methods of antisepsis, Johnson & Johnson
entered the surgical dressings industry.

The first products were improved medicinal plasters containing medical compounds
mixed in an adhesive. Then a revolutionary surgical dressing was quickly developed and
placed on the market. Recognizing the critical need for improved antiseptic surgical
procedures, the Company designed soft, absorbent cotton and gauze dressing that could
be mass produced and shipped in quantity to hospitals and every crossroads physician
and druggist.

Johnson & Johnson also extensively promoted antiseptic surgical procedures. In 1888 the
Company published a book, "Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound
Treatment," which for many years remained the standard text on
antiseptic practices.

Among the dedicated people instrumental in these developments was


Fred B. Kilmer, the Company's scientific director for 45 years beginning
in 1888 and father of Joyce Kilmer, the poet-hero of World War I. A
prolific and highly respected writer on scientific and medical subjects,
Kilmer influenced the health care profession's attitude through articles in
Johnson & Johnson magazines, which included "Red Cross Notes" and "The Red Cross
Messenger."

Fred Kilmer was also responsible for the birth of one of Johnson & Johnson's most
famous product lines in 1890. In response to a doctor's complaints of patient skin
irritation caused by the Company's plasters, Kilmer suggested sending the patient a
container of Italian talc to soothe the skin. The Company began packaging the talc with
the plasters, and soon customers were asking for more of the powder. The scented talc
was soon being sold as JOHNSON'S® Baby Powder, which remains one of the most
recognized and trusted products in the world. This led to the introduction of a number of
other baby products, and a series of advertisements proclaimed the new line of products,
"Best for your baby, best for you."

By 1890 Johnson & Johnson was treating cotton and gauze dressings by dry heat in an
attempt to produce not only an antiseptic product but a sterile one. In 1891 a
bacteriological laboratory was established and, early in the following year, the Company
successfully met the requirements for a sterile product through a continuous method of
handling dressings so they were kept under aseptic conditions and subject to repeated
sterilization during production.

The new sterilization processes, first by dry heat and then by steam and pressure, was the
genesis of the Company's slogan: "The Most Trusted Name in Surgical Dressings." In
1897 the Company developed another major contribution to surgery, an improved
sterilizing technique for catgut sutures.

In cooperation with several leading American surgeons, Johnson &


Johnson in 1899 developed and introduced the zinc oxide type of
adhesive plaster. Because of its greater strength and quick-sticking
quality, this type of plaster became an important adjunct of surgery; it
meant relief to patients because irritation to delicate skin was avoided.

Johnson & Johnson spread its roots to the world’s largest democracy,
Pakistan, during the endemic post-independence turmoil of 1947. It was
Mr. Patrick Whaley who set about with confidence and determination during this period
of turbulence to begin the wok of establishing Johnson & Johnson in the subcontinent.
Things progressed quickly and by 1948, Johnson’s Baby Powder was being
manufactured by British Drug House in Prabhadevi, Bombay, and marketed by the
company.

Other consumer products like TEK toothbrushes, Johnson’s Baby Cream and Prickly
Heat Powder followed suit. However, highly specialized products like Belladonna
plasters, pharmaceuticals and Permacel Tapes were imported from the parent company. It
was only ten years later that the company began to manufacture its own products.
In September 1957, a new company, Johnson & Johnson India Ltd. was created and
registered with twelve employees on its rolls.
In the 50 years since its establishment as a modest 12-employee outfit, Johnson &
Johnson Ltd. has gained a reputation for delivering high-quality products at competitive
prices. Our success, we believe, stems from our staunch commitment to caring for and
catering to the needs of our customers and employees.

Growth & Expansion

In 1910, the Company's first president, Robert Wood Johnson, died. Under his
direction the Company had become firmly established as a leader in the health
care field. James W. Johnson succeeded his brother and was president until 1932.

International growth, initiated in 1919 with the establishment of an affiliate in


Canada, began in earnest in 1923 with an around-the-world trip by the two sons
of Robert Wood Johnson. The young men, Robert Wood Johnson, who carried
his father's name, and J. Seward Johnson, returned from their worldwide tour with
the conviction that the Company must establish a strong international position.
The following year, in 1924, Johnson & Johnson created its first overseas
affiliate, Johnson & Johnson Ltd., in Great Britain.

Over time, international affiliates of Johnson & Johnson were created in more
than 50 countries. For example, companies were begun in Australia in 1931,
Sweden in 1956, Japan in 1961, Greece in 1973, Korea in 1981 and Egypt in
1985.

During the 1920s the Company stepped up its program of product diversification,
introducing one of the best-known and most widely used of all Johnson &
Johnson products, BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages. This famous product
was invented by company employee Earle Dickson in 1921 in order to provide his
wife with a convenient means of treating household cuts and burns. The decade
also saw the introduction of JOHNSON'S® Baby Cream which, along with the
BAND-AID® Brand product line, is currently owned by Johnson & Johnson
Consumer Products Company.

Robert Wood Johnson, the son of the founder Robert Wood


Johnson and who later became known as General Johnson after
his service as a brigadier general in World War II, took over
direction of the Company in 1932. He brought a vigorous new
approach and philosophy of business to the organization. Under
his leadership, a firm policy of decentralization was initiated,
giving to the ever-growing number of divisions and affiliates
both the autonomy and the opportunity to chart their own futures. Learn more on
the life and work of Robert Wood Johnson by reading his biography. In 2005, the
U.S. Department of Labor posthumously inducted General Robert Wood Johnson
into the Labor Hall of Fame in recognition of his significant contributions to
improving the lives of American workers.
As portions of the Company's business grew, they were characteristically
organized as individual divisions or subsidiaries. For example, the sanitary napkin
line led to the formation of the Modess Division, forerunner of today's Personal
Products Company. Ortho, which began with one birth control product in the
1930s, became the Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation.

General Johnson retired as Chairman of the Board of Johnson & Johnson in 1963,
but remained active in the Company until his death in 1968 at the age of 74. He
was succeeded as Chairman by Philip B. Hofmann in 1963, Richard B. Sellars in
1973 and James E. Burke in 1976, Ralph S. Larsen in 1989 and William C.
Weldon in 2002.

6.1 Current HR practices

The current practices in Johnson and Johnson’s in Pakistan are almost same as the
other companies operating here. It is not more than the typical consumer goods
providers. They have though some very great image in the market but the internal
condition regarding the HR department is not to that extent that one can think.

The current practices mainly emphasize on the very common and usual
formalities regarding recruiting and other HR practices. It should not be like that,
the company should realize the importance of some new and efficient ways of
doing their routine tasks regarding HR. There are many examples of technology
along with HR practices as we mentioned earlier that there are many companies
using software’s and other tools to make their recruiting effort more easy,
economical and efficient.

The other side of their current practices are like, the HR department seems very
bound to the higher management which is very same as other local companies
referred as typical SEETH organization where the owner is the only person to
deal with all concerns of the business. He is the only person to take decisions
regarding any thing in the business no matter it is about staffing or budgeting.

Human Resources Leadership Development Program (HRLDP) Overview


The Johnson & Johnson Human Resources Leadership Development Program is a
two-year rotational program that provides recent master’s-level graduates in
human resources or related disciplines, such as benefits, compensation, recruiting,
or training and development, the opportunity to accelerate their career growth.
The program features two distinct components:
Rotational assignments: Challenging and dynamic on-the-job experiences
immerse participants in a variety of work environments where they work
side-by-side with senior human resources leaders to implement critical
strategies that can impact the future of each organization.
Training: In-depth classroom and online instruction helps develop the
skills and knowledge required for leadership in the Johnson & Johnson
Family of Companies. Participants study a wide range of topics from our
Global Leadership Profile to HR-specific areas such as succession
planning and performance management. Formal training is supplemented
by coaching and mentoring.

Through this broad base of experiences, HRLDP participants can gain the
skills, knowledge and perspective required to take part in the next
generation of human resources leadership within the Johnson & Johnson
Family of Companies.

Big-company Resources
( Facilitating your development )
To supplement the on-the-job development provided by many small-
company environments, we provide extensive, globally accessible training
and development resources across our Family of Companies. You and
your manager can draw on these resources to prepare your personal
development plan. Offerings are extensive and span individual
development, team development, organization development and
leadership development. They include:
• Global Leadership Profile
• eUniversity
• School of Personal and Professional Development
• Management Education and Development
• Leadership Development Programs

6.3 Recruiting Methods

International Recruitment & Development (IR&D) Overview

Johnson & Johnson International Recruitment & Development recruits high-


potential MBA students for specific positions offered by Johnson & Johnson
companies throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Latin
America. Opportunities are generally within the functional disciplines of sales,
marketing, finance, operations/logistics, human resources and information
management.
Development assignments run for 12 months and, based on the needs of the hiring
companies, may take place at either the regional or international level. Regional
assignments take place within the hiring country; international assignments
typically take place outside of the country in which the hiring company is located.
In some instances, there may be a blend of both regional and international
assignments during the development period.
6.4 Failure’s

As far as their Pakistani unit is concern, they are not up to their international
standard. In terms of methods and procedures, there is no such failure in their
recruiting activities but the need is to be about perfection level. The HR practices
could be more standardize and efficient than the current practices.

What I observed there, they are not very ready for their future challenges and
there is no research process on the current and future labor market by the
company. As we see, many new and advanced technologies are coming in the
market along with very new businesses hence the competition becomes dual.
Now the companies have to compete with product and the labor as well.

7. TIME CASE
The time case is about the recommendations, preventive measures for expected damages
and some suggestions for their HR practices. Let’s first see the negative side of their HR
practices.
The major HR practices there are like,
1. Number Of employees is 3
2. Strategies set by
3. Management and Board
4. Proactive measure are, Recruitment from top 14 universities
5. Specific job specification for all
6. Performance appraisals

By having such information, we can easily take such impression that the current practices
are not very professional enough to compete with other professionals even as far as their
goodwill is concern, its not up to that mark unfortunately.
What the lack in it is like,

• There is no proper workforce plan in company to face some emergence in


market.
• Analysis is not about appraisals only; the company shows the lack of
information about the proper analysis of any job by their statement.
• No advanced search tools for candidates recruitment.
• Initial screening conducting for only the potential or some extra ordinary
candidates.
• Managers and trainers are 80% trained to train new comers.
• Final selection is not in the hand of HR only, it depends on position.
• No background information acquired for new comers.
• Very selected sources used for recruitment.
As far as the standard procedures and actions concern, these activities are not up
to standard, though J&J is an international name but the procedures are not as
same.

7.1 Reasons

The reasons could be many as we are developing nation so the cultural factors
affects a lot to many business practices and the less awareness and some sort of
“sethism” is present in our culture, that’s why are not been able to cope with such
weaknesses. The other side could be, companies has to set the standards but by
keeping the cultural and social patterns so there is such fashion to just emphasize
on the most important and to be as fire fighter rather than proactive. These
concepts and theories makes our corporations very ambiguous about their
practices that what to do or not to do.

7.2 Preventive Measures

The HR could be more proactive and efficient if they just add some additional
practices about their sources, patterns and policies.
The positive side of the J&J contains the point like,
1. The presence of data bank is good sign.
2. Recruitment from top universities means they giving
options to fresh minds.
3. Both internal and external options considered when
recruiting
4. Initial screening is there for all candidates.
5. No pressure from management when recruiting.
6. Sources are very common and are very economical.

8. RECOMMENDATIONS:
8.1 Suggestions:

Use Reference Referrals when you have no budget for recruiting


because Reference Referrals is The Simplest, Fastest, and Cheapest
Recruiting Tool.

The best recruiting source is reference referrals when you have no budget,
little time, and don't know much about recruiting.

8.2 The Definition of a Reference Referral


A reference referral is quite simply asking the references (that were given
to you by previous hires) to act as a referral source for the names of
"other" top performers that the references also happen to know.

But why does this approach work?

The concept is really quite simple. It is well known that the references
given to a firm by a candidate are almost (by definition) higher-level
performers than your candidate. Traditionally, we call references to get
their opinions about a candidate's performance. However there is a better
use for references. Start by asking yourself this question..."What are the
odds that the reference will know only one top performer (the one that is
currently applying to your firm)? Because the answer is almost always
that "they know several other excellent potential candidates also," smart
managers and recruiters need to become regular users of reference
referrals. It turns out that "A"-level references know lots of "A"-level
players.

8.3 How Do Referral References Work?

Reference referrals work right away; they require no training and no


manual. Just follow the steps outlined below and within a day you'll have
great candidates flowing in. Here are the steps to follow:

1. Identify the top performers (top 25%) from those employees that you
have hired recently (from six to eighteen months ago).
2. Look-up the names and the number of the references that they gave
when they were hired.
3. From the list of references, identify the ones that made accurate
(positive) comments about the candidate that you hired (assuming you
still have the reference notes/ records).
4. Call the references up and say something like this: "I want to thank
them for giving us a reference for Mr./ Mrs. XYZ. Based partially on
your recommendation we hired them and they turned out to be an
excellent employee."
5. Next ask them, based on the success of your last reference, "Would
you be willing to help out again by giving us some names of some
other equally or better qualified candidates?" If they need more time to
think of names, tell them that you will call them back in day or so.
6. Ask the reference if it is OK for you to use their name as an
introduction when you are calling the people they have just referred.
7. If they seem enthusiastic, ask them to call the candidate first for you.
The goal here is to "warm up” and to "pre-sell" the person as well as
to let them know that you will be following up with a call soon.
8. Next ask them if the person they are now referring also knows the
person that you recently hired. If so, use that relationship as an
introduction when you call the new referral. Let them know that you
recently hired a colleague or friend of theirs, and then tell them how
well their colleague is doing at your firm.
9. Next call the reference referred candidate and tell them who referred
you and why you're calling. Assess their interests and then sell them
on the firm and the job. Also offer to send them additional material
about the job and the firm.
10. Even if they are not currently interested in a position ask them if it is
okay with him/ her if you put them on your e-mail jobs list. Later you
can "push" any relevant open jobs to them. Relevant job openings can
also be "pushed" to your reference referral people on the chance that
the opening announcement might remind them of possible candidates.
11. After hiring a few candidates (by using the reference referral tool)
gather metrics on the results, in order to see what works in the
reference referral process and what didn't. Then use the metrics to
continually refine your approach until you get the maximum yield out
of your reference referrals.

12. If the reference referrals give you names, consider giving them a
reward for the referral. (A small bonus for providing the names of
great prospects and a larger bonus for any actual hires).

8.4 Advantages of using Reference Referrals

As you can see using reference referrals is relatively simple to do because


it:

 Uses existing names and telephone number that are already in your
files.
 Limits the referrals to only the references of top performers that
have a track record at your firm and thus you limit the risks you
take.
 Allows you to further narrow down the reference list (from the
original three) by eliminating those references that gave inaccurate
reference information on the previous hired candidate.
 Requires no training
 Provides high quality candidates and hires
 Reference referrals are easy to do and they produce great results!
Don't be surprised if this cheap, fast and simple recruiting tool
becomes your" go to" recruiting tool within a month of trying it.

8.5 Hiring Advice for Small Business

Smaller firms need talent also, but they normally have more limited
resources and recruiting expertise than larger firms. If you are a small
business owner, here is the way to approach recruiting.
Realize that the firms with the best people win.

Most entrepreneurs spend too little time on people issues, even though
they are unlikely to beat the competition without better people. The Bulls
basketball team won because of Michael Jordan... it wasn't his shoes! If
you are to win the war to attract and retain the best, you must adopt new
tools and techniques. For example, stop relying so heavily on want ads
that have an extremely high cost and a tendency to attract low-quality
applicants (in times of high employment). Instead target the very best
talent, which generally are currently employed people that are probably
not actively looking for a job at the present time. Assume the best
candidates are currently employed "passive" job seekers that you need to
"swipe" from other firms. Recruiting other firm's top talent requires
different tools both for finding them and in order to convince them to say
yes.

Stop relying on coincidence hires.

What are the odds that the very best candidates are available and reading
the want ads on the day you begin recruiting? Don't rely on luck; develop
continuous recruiting processes that identify the best talent well before
you actually need it. Then build relationships with these candidates over
time, because it allows you to learn more about them and to assess them
without rushing. Don't hire "strangers"!

Recruiting sends them a message about your firm; you have to wow
the very best.

You have to make the job exciting and you must continue innovating in
recruiting in order to beat other big and small firms in the race for talent.
And by the way, top talent differs from the average person. Top people get
so many offers that you have to "wow" them with opportunities to grow
and learn. They want different things (pay for performance, challenge,
control, "open book" management, communication) and they often
demand an individualized, continuously updated deal. The best need to be
asked, "What would be a better job for you?" and then you have to offer
most of what they expect. You also need to coordinate any advertising and
PR you do with your recruitment efforts in order to spread the word (i.e.
build your employment brand) that your firm is a great place to work.

You need better screening tools if you are going to hire the very best.
Many entrepreneurs rely on "gut instincts" to select candidates.
Unfortunately their gut is likely to be wrong nearly 50% of the time.
Instead, use actual company problems in the interview (verbal
simulations) to find out how they will approach your problems after they
are hired. Also, stop asking about yesterday in the interview. Ask about
possible future problems and the required solutions for your firm.

Use technology to find and assess the very best!

The best recruits are net savvy and are already on the net. Use chat rooms,
list servers, and web search robots to find the very best. Drop forever the
idea that recruitment and hiring must be face to face. Use telephone
interviews to assess candidates. Develop exciting web pages that tell a
story about your firm in order to excite the candidates and show them you
are different.

Try these simple but inexpensive recruiting tools.

• Have a strong employee referral program


• Re-hire your former employees
• Ask references for the names of other top people they
know
• Ask your best customers and suppliers to refer people (or
just hire them)
• Ask new hires on the first day "who else is good" from
their former firm
• Ask your current employees "How would I find you
again?" and use those techniques and sources to recruit similar
people
• Reward managers for great hiring and retention

When you have a small staff delays can cost you and even one hiring
mistake can be deadly. So learn how the best larger firms do it and adapt
their practices to your firm. Be aggressive and try new approaches.

8.6 The 20 "Rules" For Great Recruiting


If you want to dominate your competitors in the talent "war," you need to act a lot
differently than they do. If you expect to win more than a majority of your head-
to-head "battles" for talent, you must take a deliberate approach to recruiting. The
following are the 20 rules for great recruiting.

Recruiting Rule #1:

You must declare war and act like warriors in order to win.
It takes an aggressive approach to get the best talent. Aggressive
recruiting starts with competitive intelligence and a strong desire to win. It
ends with the goal of continually improving everything you do so that you
can stay ahead of the competitors.

You must continually improve your recruiting processes on the


assumption that your competitors are continuously copying your best
practices and as a result, they will soon catch up. Warriors hate to lose, so
every time you lose a head-to-head battle for top talent, you need to do a
"post-mortem" in order to identify the reasons why you lost. A fast-
changing world with an uncertain economy requires an agile approach if
you are to stay on top. Unfortunately, HR often changes "at the speed of
rock" — so changing things internally requires expert knowledge, hard
proof, and most of all, enormous courage!

Recruiting Rule #2:

The war for talent is over. And by the way… guess who won?

As long as the unemployment rate is low, managers need to realize that


the power has shifted from the company to the worker. Top performers
must now be treated like free agents and all applicants must be treated like
customers if you are to get them to leave a perfectly good job and accept
yours. This means you must do extensive market research into identifying
what these "customers" will and won't accept. Because there are niche
markets in recruiting just like in product marketing, chances are that you
will have to "mass personalize" their jobs and their offers if you expect to
sell them.

Recruiting Rule #3:

Talent matters and top talent matters most.

Just like in sales, there's an 80/20 rule in recruiting. 80% of the profit
comes from the efforts of 20% of the employees. This means recruiting
must prioritize its efforts and focus on the managers, divisions, and jobs
that have the most business impact. Instead of treating them all the same,
it is essential to put your resources into the ones that make the most
difference. You don't have the time or the resources to do them all well.

Recruiting Rule #4:

Prove it works or stop doing it!

You can improve what you don't measure. As much as 50% of the
traditional practices in recruiting don't work during high employment
times. Be sure to include a feedback loop in everything you do to see if
the practice results in hires that become top performers within a year. It is
a continuous process to identify which tools produce performers and then
to drop the tools and sources that don't...like a hot potato. You waste
scarce resources and you lose credibility with managers when you use
tools that don't produce results. World-class recruiters use metrics in
everything they do. But if you can only measure one thing, measure the
performance of those you hire (after six months and again after a year).
Measuring speed or costs without including quality is just silly.

Recruiting Rule #5:

Do it differently to create and maintain a competitive advantage.

Many recruiters benchmark which results in a "sameness" that guarantees


you'll have no competitive edge. If you want to win big you have to take
chances and do things differently than the other firms. That means
innovation and taking chances. The road "less traveled" may be empty,
but it may also be a shortcut! Incidentally if what you do is unique, be
sure and keep it a secret!

Recruiting Rule #6:Speed is everything in hiring top talent.

How long is top talent in the job market? Normally the top 10% are gone
within ten days, so if you want the best you have to act quickly. Top talent
may even be gone in one day. Bureaucracy, approvals, and processes are
the antithesis of speed hiring. When you find top talent that exceed your
qualifications... make incision, make an offer and make the sale and do in
one day!

Recruiting Rule #7:

There is no shortage of talent… only bad tools designed for low


unemployment times. For any individual firm there is actually no
shortage of talent unless you're in the middle of the desert. Corporations in
big cities can easily find an excess of talent, if they stop looking at
unemployed people. There is a wealth of experienced talent working
across the street if you have the courage and the tools to "poach" them
away. Incidentally, if the ethics of poaching bothers you, go visit your
sales staff. They spend every day trying to steal your competitor's
customers without a twinge of ethical concern. Consider other firms as
your farm teams and lure away their already trained productive people.

Recruiting Rule #8:


It take a marketing/sales approach to win. Recruiting is just sales with
a crummy budget. It's essential that you do a detailed "discovery" of your
recurring "target" in order to identify their demographics and their
"profile." By doing a profile of your own top employees (what they do,
read, and want) you will identify the keys to finding other top performers.
Odds are that the candidates you are trying to attract have the same
interests, hobbies and reading habits as your own top employees (in
marketing it's sometimes called pattern buying). Then by focusing on the
same media, websites, magazines, and other sources that your employees
use you are likely to find great recruits in the same manner.

Branding is another important area to focus on. First, it is essential that


you know and manage what your employees say about you. Then you
need to make a conscious effort to build your image through PR, getting
on "great places to work " lists and getting written about in targeted
magazines and web sites

Recruiting Rule #9:

If you don’t have to fight for them… they are not superstars. Top
performers are in high demand, regardless of the economic situation.
Managers and recruiters must be aware that the best must be "fought
over." The reverse is also true, in that if a candidate is easy to attract and
sell, odds are they are not a top performer. When it comes to recruiting
talent, the easiest ones to get are the ones you want least. Focus your
efforts towards hiring away employed top performers rather than those
who are actively looking for a job. The best are currently employed and
have multiple offers, a counter offer and they expect more exciting jobs
then those outlined in most traditional job descriptions. If you're attracting
people with no other offers, odds are these are "ugly candidates" and they
will become bad hires. Send them to your competitors.

Recruiting Rule #10:

If you expect to win… everyone must be a 24/7 talent scout. There are
never enough recruiters in a company to find all of that talent in the world.
The key to recruiting success is to shift the responsibility for recruiting to
the managers and employees. Employees, because of their frequent
contact with other people, become the largest sales force you have.
Having them speak out to friends, acquaintances, customers and people
they meet about their exciting job and their company is the best sales tool
you can ever have. Employees must become 24/7 talent scouts through the
use of sophisticated employee referral programs. In addition, you need to
solicit customers, suppliers, former employees and references to be talent
scouts for your firm.
Recruiting Rule #11:

If you expect to win… managers and employees must “own”


recruiting.

If you take the burden of recruiting away from managers they will
inevitably "get lazy" and put little effort into it. The real key to success is
to shift the responsibility of recruiting to managers and employees. They
are the ones who suffer when a position is left vacant and when bad hires
are made. They also get the "reward" and increased productivity when a
great hire is made. Because there's ample research that shows that the
candidates want to talk directly to managers and decision makers, it
becomes even more essential for them to be involved early in the process.
Recruiting must make a strong business case to convince managers to
spend the required time and effort on recruiting. Because of the rapid
change in technology and information it is becoming almost impossible
for recruiters to maintain their ability to sell applicants in technical
positions. Recruiters can do their part but managers must make the final
sale.

Recruiting Rules #12:

Stop hiring strangers. Pre-identify and pre-qualify talent.

It is not uncommon for 30% of the hires not to work out. One of the
reasons for this is that we are primarily hiring strangers. Other then
through employee referral programs, most candidates are relatively
unknown. A few emails, phone calls, and two hours of interviews do not
really allow you to know the candidate. The secret to great assessment is
to start early and to make identifying and assessing prospects a continuous
process (regardless of whether you have openings). If you continually
identify top performers you can build a "who's who" database of your
prospects. You can then assess their abilities over time and in a variety of
ways. This makes the possibility of a rushed assessment error a lot less
likely. Pre-qualifying candidates before you actually need them (pre-need)
also gives you time to sell them on the company and the job.

Recruiting Rule #13:

The very best require WOW’s.

Top performers already have a job, so it takes a WOW to get them to


consider another. A WOW is an extraordinary management practice,
benefit, or job feature that is so exciting that they will tell their friends
about it. Top candidates don't want to work for mundane companies. A
firm has to do something that "everyone talks about" if you expect to be in
the top tier of the employers of choice. Examples of WOW's include
sabbaticals, onsite gyms, valet and concierge services, a "cool" CEO, as
well as free soft drinks.

Recruiting Rule #14:

Put the work where the talent wants to be/is.

In a global economy it's essential that you realize that a large majority of
the top talent probably does not live within a hundred miles of your
facility. When talent is in high demand, smart firms think out of the box
and put the work "where the talent is" or "where it wants to be." This
means flexibility on the part of managers. Options might include working
from remote locations, working at home or putting facilities where there is
a surplus of talent. For recruiters, this might mean recruiting around the
globe and it certainly means recruiting outside the geography that you are
the most familiar with.

Recruiting Rule #15:

Treat candidates like customers.

Because the power has shifted to the talent, it is essential that we learn to
treat them in a customer service manner. This means responding to
inquiries rapidly, giving them feedback on how well they're doing and
doing post mortems to identify why they failed to accepted our offer.
Candidates need to be asked during and after the process "how well did
we treat you?" Manager satisfaction also needs to be assessed. Remember
to think in a broadest sense as a businessperson would. We might not be
able to hire them all but we certainly can turn many candidates into our
future customers if we treat them right!

Recruiting Rule #16:

Managers must be measured and rewarded for great recruiting and


retention.

HR often says that people are our most important asset but this often turns
out to be a shallow phrase. In fact, few HR departments even bother to
measure and reward managers for great hiring, retention or worker
productivity. The most important factor in changing management behavior
toward recruiting is to distribute ranked metrics to all managers on a
regular basis. This has the double impact of educating and occasionally
embarrassing managers. The next step is to include great recruiting and
retention as part of their bonus. Add metrics and rewards and you will see
a rapid change in their behavior
Recruiting Rule # 17:

You have to learn at internet speed to survive.

The world is a rapidly changing place where tools and strategies are
quickly outdated. If you are going to win the war for talent you must
continually be on the leading edge of knowledge. This means continuous
and rapid learning about recruiting on chat rooms, list servers and through
benchmarking. I have found that the best way to stay ahead of the
recruiting game is through "parallel benchmarking", which means that you
look outside of recruiting and HR in order to learn the most. Some of the
best recruiting practices actually were derived from outside of recruiting.
You can learn a great deal from outstanding business practices such as
product branding, customer response management, customer service and
supply chain management. In a rapidly changing world fast learning might
also include forecasting the economy and anticipating the future actions of
your competitors

Recruiting Rule # 18:

You must have a well defined and communicated strategy in order to


succeed!

Recruiting is one of the few business areas that have no clearly defined
strategies. Most recruiters just do what they do without a written plan.
This can confuse managers because they don't know the goals or
objectives of the plan. Recruiting strategies can range from focusing on:
experienced people, hiring bright people," cheap people" to a strategy of
hiring raw talent and then developing it. Whatever your strategy is, if it is
to be effective it must first be communicated effectively to the managers
and second periodic measurements must be taken to ensure that it's
working and meeting its goals.

Recruiting Rule #19:

You must use technology if you are to win.

Because of globalization and the need for speed most paper based
recruiting practices are bound to hinder a company. If you need to move
fast technology becomes the #1 tool. Whether you use it for recruiting on
the Internet, for market research, for gathering metrics or just for
communicating with candidates technology allows you to do more, faster
and cheaper. Incidentally top candidates, almost without fail, use
technology extensively and they will judge your firm by how well and
how often you use technology on your web site and during the recruiting
process.
Recruiting Rule #20:

You must use mass experimentation to find new things that work.

Recruiting is actually very conservative and has changed little in the last
50 years. There are few corporate research and development programs and
almost no academic research on what works and what doesn't in
recruiting. As a result if you are to be successful you must encourage your
recruiters and managers to do mass experimentation. The key to
innovation is to continually try new things and then to include a feedback
loop that allows you to rapidly check to see if it resulted in a high
performance hire. If it fails rapidly capture the lessons learned and move
on. Is unlikely you'll get all of the innovations right but without trying
new things you can never be the recruiting leader in your industry.

9. Add Competitive Intelligence Gathering to Your Role as


a Recruiter!
Many recruiters look at what they do in an extremely narrow perspective. One
glaring example of this is the failure of most recruiters to realize that a key
element of their success is based on how well they gather "competitive
intelligence!"

WHAT IS COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE?

Competitive intelligence is the process of gathering valuable information about


our firm's direct competitors including strategies, plans, practices, or people.
Competitive intelligence (a.k.a. CI) enables us to better anticipate and counter our
competitor's next recruiting move. In the area of recruiting, CI specifically means
identifying or finding out one or more of the following things:

Why do top candidates choose to apply at our competitors, rather than with us?

Why do potential applicants visit our competitor's web site?

When candidates turn us down, where do they go (to what firm)? What is the
salary differential?

What are the elements of the competing offers that our finalists get? Which ones
cause the candidate to select the competitors offer? What were the "deal breakers"
at our firm?

Who are the competitor's best recruiters that steal our top talent away?
Which of the competitor's ads, web sites, or other recruiting tools had the
biggest/least impact on you?

HOW DO YOU GATHER COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE


INFORMATION?

The most common ways to gather competitive intelligence information is with


focus groups or with a direct one-on-one with the candidate the first day they start
a job with our firm. Post exit interviews 3 - 6 months after a candidate resigns are
also effective. One particularly effective CI gathering tool simply entails having
the recruiter interview the candidate on the first day that they start and then just
ask them simple questions like:

What other offers did you receive (will you show us)?

Who else is excellent at your previous firm and will you help us to convince
them to come here?

What caused you to leave your last job?

Who else looks good (but really isn't) at your last firm?

What are the negative aspects at your previous firm that caused people to
quit?

Will you help us refine our recruiting and offer process so that we can
improve our acceptance rate when we go head-to-head with your previous
employer?

What did we do during the recruitment process that turned you off or that
almost caused you to reject us? Can you rank order our key selling points
that convinced you to say yes?

What are your former employer's best management practices? Biggest


weaknesses?

OTHER GENERAL INTELLIGENCE GATHERING

In addition to learning about your competitors there is other valuable information


you can gather. Some of that includes:

Help us understand how to motivate you and how to get the most out of you?
How well were you treated during the recruitment process? What frustrated you
the most? What elements had the most positive impact?

How long do you expect to be with us and specifically what do you think your
next job will look like?

You can also ask the candidate after three months how we treated them during the
initial orientation and do they have "buyer's regret" (this is known as a post exit
interview). "Many recruiters fail to understand that recruiting is simply marketing
with a crummy budget!"

If you are to be effective as a recruiter you need to do continuous market research


and intelligence gathering in order to identify why people leave jobs or accept
jobs. By knowing "up close and personally" exactly what our competitors are
doing, we can then develop a counter strategy. These counter strategies might
include giving managers comparison offer sheets so that they know what other
offers candidates are likely to get from our competitors when they negotiate our
final offer up to "poaching" away their best recruiters.

If you are to win the "war for talent," you must realize that it actually is a war and
an essential element of warfare is gathering intelligence about what the other side
is doing. You don't have to be James Bond, to break any laws, or to invade
someone's privacy to do effective CI in recruiting. You just need a simple but
periodic process to gather the information, a "blocking" process, to keep them
from learning about our secrets and a "back-end" system to insure that our
processes and strategies change as a result of the information you gather.

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