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I recall the late 1990s when some of us were calling for recruiting to live outside of HR. It was a time of massive change, as companies invested heavily in corporate recruiting teams. Sourcing, employer branding, metrics, and an onslaught of ATSs were all hot topics at recruiting conferences. And traditional HR didn’t seem like the place for this critical function to report into.
We were headhunting, we could measure everything we did (not really) better than the rest of HR, and we felt we were more like sales and marketing than the world of HR generalists. (Side note:
