It's a wild thought, but based on some logic: Why is Talent Sourcing - or recruitment - a part of Human Resource Development function, when, the process demands more of sourcing expertise and less of people development skills.
Ideally, recruitment means: Sourcing relevant talents, and primary responsibility of the concerned person/s is to identify best available candidates - or products - through several channels: Direct reference, Social Networking Sites, and lastly through third-party suppliers known as recruiters.
Like all input materials: Raw, semi-finish and finish, talent sourcing is executed against a predetermined set of specifications and the resume of professionals matching those criteria are forwarded - via HR -to the concerned actual users.
Based on their feedback, shortlisted candidates are called for personal - sometime preceded by a virtual interview like telephonic evaluation or video conference - interaction with them.
It's that across-the-table evaluation during different stages of interviewing, that, by and large, influence the final decision making processes -- even though psychological assessment tools are invariably used but more to substantiate personal opinion, than anything else.
Once the candidates are approved by the actual users, next step is to decide about their functional levels and design an attractive but appropriate compensation package -- matching existing structure, and within permissible salary band.
And, who can evaluate the potential of these selected candidates and identify the right fitment, better than those concerned functional and/or business heads, who, in fact, have approved them in the first place?
Well, there may be several interdependent facets of a result oriented decision making, but, until joining, concerned actual users can very well coordinate closely with sourcing division of the organization -- who, perhaps, would do a better job in terms of aggressively following up with the selected candidates to ensure a smooth joining.
So, what's your take on this issue?
Note: Republished
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