When your conservative recruiting can’t compete with $100M sign-ons, your aggressiveness must increase.
This Is A Think Piece – whose goal is to encourage you to scrutinize the current level of aggressiveness in your recruiting strategy.
If You Haven’t Noticed, “Outrageous Recruiting” (OR) Is Back
If you were involved in recruiting at the beginning of this 21st century, you already know about the aggressive “war for talent” recruiting practices. These practices were championed during that timeframe by the recruiting powerhouses at Cisco and Google. Well, after a couple of decades of conservatism completely dominating recruiting, take this as an alert that the extremely aggressive approach I call “outrageous recruiting” is back with a vengeance.
The name “outrageous” comes from the first reaction most executives have when they hear about these practices for the first time. Because they invariably respond with either a “that’s outrageous” comment or alternatively, a “WOW” comment. And unfortunately, that shock utterance is almost always followed by some variation of the haunting phrase, “We could never do that.”