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Regional Resourcing Heads Discuss: Optimising Internal Recruitment Teams in Current Times

Posted: 08.04.09

The Chapman Consulting Group today hosted an HR roundtable discussion for Regional Resourcing Directors from 13 high profile multinationals. Participants met over lunch at the Singapore Cricket Club to discuss the topic of “Strategies to Optimise the Performance and Structure of your Regional Resourcing Team to Effectively Maintain Traction in the Current Market".

In the severest cases, the burning issue at present hasn’t been hiring freezes or business restructuring, but rather the negative impact of bad press, which can affect both a company’s employee turnover and its status as an employer of choice. The group had a number of experiences to share about how this could be countered by creative recruitment means, mainly through targeted professional networking and harnessing a select group of ambassadors within the business who can attract talent through the strength of their own personal credibility. The group agreed this can have extraordinary results in securing talent by spreading personal and positive messages ‘virally’ about the company.

On a similar subject, the group also discussed the current need to keep close to the business, and to continue the process of educating them on the positive impact that a resourcing function can offer. One participant explained how their recruitment model allowed their in-house staff to offer internal customers new approaches to proactive talent mapping and pipelining. Another explained how they had won the commitment of their global business stakeholders to keep recruitment headcount high in order to avoid finding themselves at a competitive disadvantage when the market eventually turns.

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