Recruitment in big business: The Red Queen's race

“…here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.” (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass)

You’ve probably seen a number of approaches to recruitment in large, listed organisations. In-house, RPO, Master Vendor and HR-led PSLs to name the more popular set-ups.

Have you ever seen a solution that met the needs of the business entirely? One that the HR team, as well as hiring managers, praised and the finance team was able to point out lines on the P&L and notice a real impact to the business?

If you’ve been in a leadership role a while, you may have scoffed at that. For most, the recruitment nirvana I just described has been written off long ago as unattainable. You may even have come to think of recruitment as a necessary evil, an inconvenience that is always going to be a pain point regardless of how it is managed.