Recruiter - A Strategic partner of an Organization

There was a time when Organizations used to recruit people by outsourcing their needs to Agencies or through references and good will. But look today, the entire scenario has changed.

 

Now organizations have their own Recruiting Divisions were 5-15 recruiters work specifically to source the right talent. Companies are still outsourcing their hiring needs to Agencies but in-house recruiters have become an essential component of the Business Life Cycle and Organizational Structure. Recruiters in a way have become Strategic Partners of the organization.

 

There was a time when a Single HR person used to handle all the HR Department's process but today it has changed. Recruiters are hired for a very specialized function of recruiting. The demand of Recruiters has increased especially in Information Technology and Software Industry. The high demand of professionals in mass value has increased the need of a specialized profile that can help in Recruiting effectively and promptly. Today the deadline to recruit people has trimmed out drastically. Organization wants to get somebody recruited on an urgent basis to meet their deadlines and as a result the deadline for a recruiter has become shorter sometimes of just couple hours. This shows the importance of a recruiter in today's corporate world.

 

However, not all recruiters are capable of meeting these short deadlines. The education on Human Resource Management is still limited to the General HR issues. The importance of Recruiting Function in the courses offered in the institutes is very less. In today's corporate scenario, the profile of an HR Professional has average 70% of recruiting functions and rest of other HR functions considering that the company has only one HR guy to perform all the functions.

 

I strongly believe that today it has become essential to train and educate HR professionals who have more portion of recruiting function in their profile and those who really wants to build their career in recruiting field. There is a need to educate them to "How to Recruit Effectively".

 

The corporate should take initiatives to impart specialized Recruiting Trainings to their HR and Recruiting professionals which will eventually help the organization to recruit the manpower at a faster speed and skilled employees.

 

 

 

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