(Nov 04, 2008) Whether conscious or not, all organizations have a Recruiting Strategy. (This notion is akin to the idea that all organizations have performance reviews whether formal or not.) In other words, one way of thinking about Recruiting Strategy is that it is the organization’s consistent pattern over time. Company X recruits this way; Company Y recruits that way. Strategy, from this perspective, is simply an expression of corporate culture.
You can probably guess that our notion of Recruiting Strategy is far more structures and intentional. Rather than an intention that can be inferred from actions, a conscious Recruiting Strategy is a multi-level
Strategies don’t work very well if they are not congruent with the organization’s culture. They also fail quickly if there isn’t a way to rapidly respond to the environment. Any strategy must be flexible enough to shed the ideas that aren’t useful in favor of more interesting things that pop up along the way.
