FreeStuffEngine.com - Recruitment Myth By Sohail Zindani

HR is simply proving to be the Giant among all other business function. As we move further from information age to talent age, its impact would get even more prominent on any organizational structure.

Where an employee comes from? Simply from no where, employee enters into an organization from the gate of Recruitment & Selection, where recruiters are the gate keeper. Employees enter into an organization, and then have nothing to do with the recruitment & selection department, until and unless he/she decides to be another gate keeper.

Gate-keeper, odd it may sound, greatly it may impact. Recruiters are efficient and effective, but to what extent they capture efficient & effective people is the real question.

Talent is a scarce resource, but I believe that proper resorts (organizations) are even scarcer. Organizations cry that ?We need talented individual, I say, ?Be talented yourself first?

The myth about which I want to talk about is of ?we want skilled people?. Skill, here, includes academic qualification and work experience. To a higher level, it may come up with assessing extra curricular activities and that?s all about it. We, normally and widely, recruit people for their Skills, rather than their attitude. Just re-think, is it skill which matters or attitude.

The concept of retention comes under spotlight, when employee turn-over increases. Turn-over of attitude, not skills. Attitudes are ?take-in?, skills are ?take-away?. Employees definitely brings along the skills required to do the job, but the real question, a recruiter must enquire, is that whether he/she can live the job, this is what I call the ATTITUDE FACTOR.

Attitude brings self-efficacy, not the skills. Skills are acquired, attitudes are chosen. Eyes are common, sight is unique. Bill Gates is not the greatest skilled man on earth, but his attitude towards his work matters. Check the records, and you will know that greatness came from attitude.

But I don?t know why we are simply striving to change the unchangeable. All ads for employment narrates skill required for the job, really few require people with better mindset. I am not a recruitment professional, but I know that its feeling, not heart, its thought, not brain, its talent, not worker & its attitude, not skills.

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added July 9, 2006 HR is simply proving to be the Giant among all other business function. As we move further from information age to talent age, its impact would get even more prominent on any organizational structure. Where an employee comes from? Simply from no where, employee enters into an organization from the gate of Recruitment & Selection, where recruiters are the gate keeper. Employees enter into an organization, and then have nothing to do with the recruitment & selection department, until and unless he/she decides to be another gate keeper. Gate-keeper, odd it may sound, greatly it may impact. Recruiters are efficient and effective, but to what extent they capture efficient & effective people is the real question. Talent is a scarce resource, but I believe that proper resorts (organizations) are even scarcer. Organizations cry that ?We need talented individual, I say, ?Be talented yourself first? The myth about which I want to talk about is of ?we want skilled people?. Skill, here, includes academic qualification and work experience. To a higher level, it may come up with assessing extra curricular activities and that?s all about it. We, normally and widely, recruit people for their Skills, rather than their attitude. Just re-think, is it skill which matters or attitude. The concept of retention comes under spotlight, when employee turn-over increases. Turn-over of attitude, not skills. Attitudes are ?take-in?, skills are ?take-away?. Employees definitely brings along the skills required to do the job, but the real question, a recruiter must enquire, is that whether he/she can live the job, this is what I call the ATTITUDE FACTOR. Attitude brings self-efficacy, not the skills. Skills are acquired, attitudes are chosen. Eyes are common, sight is unique. Bill Gates is not the greatest skilled man on earth, but his attitude towards his work matters. Check the records, and you will know that greatness came from attitude. But I don?t know why we are simply striving to change the unchangeable. All ads for employment narrates skill required for the job, really few require people with better mindset. I am not a recruitment professional, but I know that its feeling, not heart, its thought, not brain, its talent, not worker & its attitude, not skills.
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