Global recruitment Day 1

I thought about this, and decided to make a posting in English. Although I know many of our HR readers do not like English and can’t stand English terms (surveys reveal this), the reason for this one time English posting is simple. Many of the attendees of the ERE conference in Amsterdam today were English speaking and several promissed to read our blog for this post (and I challenge them all to react and show me they actually read it). No live blogging (no free Wi Fi availible) so only a report.

The topic is Global recruitment, something I wasn’t even aware of really existed until last week when I heard about the conference. Recruiting is a local thing, people to people contact, but there is a way to do this both locally as well as globally. And although I only came in at the end of the presentation, that was the message I got from Kent Kirch, global director of recruitment at Deloitte. When you put tools in effect globally, you need to customize them locally.

I’m going to split the day up in two parts: the one we call arbeidsmarketing, employee branding. And a part called technology. I’ll post them in different postings to keep it clear. Interesting is to see that in the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king. Bas Westland recently wrote about this and it was painfully clear here too. With most of the sessions I wondered how you could not know what it was about. However, many thought it to be interesting and new.

One remark that I liked during the day was made by fellow blogger An: “headhunting isn’t about locating the right person, it’s about convincing that person to join the firm”.

Another quote that really stuck with me came from Microsoft. I showed me that not only do the release bad software and defend it, they don’t get recruitment either. They just don’t get the world I guess, arrogance rules over there. The man asked (Jason from Jobster) when the pull medium that is RSS will become a push medium. Because then he can actually send it to people with an RSS reader. Because this way, you can’t reach them. Like I said, I guess Microsoft will never get it.

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