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Regional Resourcing Heads Discuss: Justifying the Long-term Value of the Resourcing Team

Posted: 12.08.09

The Chapman Consulting Group today hosted an HR roundtable discussion for Regional Resourcing Directors from 11 high profile multinationals from the Banking, Hospitality, Professional Services, Technology, and Industrial sectors. Participants met over lunch at the Singapore Cricket Club to discuss current strategies around talent acquisition.

Participants agreed that it has been a tumultuous two years in the field of recruitment. Many Resourcing Heads had gone from breakneck recruitment in 2008 to hiring freezes in 2009. However this was by no means everyone's experience.

In one particular example, the biggest challenge of the current market was in convincing global stakeholders of the relative buoyancy of markets in Asia as compared to the stagnation of economies in other geographies. Despite the availability of facts and figures that back up this assertion, the Resourcing Head still needed to use all their influencing skills, as well as the strengths or their relationships at a global level, to ensure that a hiring freeze in one market didn't affect the ability to attract and retain talent in another.

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