HBR’s Seven Steps for Recruiting in a Recession

One of the benefits of recession for employers is the increase in “A” list job applicants.  But most companies do such a poor job of recruiting that they can’t take advantage of what the market is handing them. So the May issue of Harvard Business Review offers The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad, written by Harvard Business School professors Nitin Nohria and Boris Groysberg, with Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a senior adviser at the global executive search firm Egon Zehnder International. The article marches us down the hiring process from initial identification of business needs to closing the deal. Here are the seven steps, and a takeaway or two from the article. Anticipate the need for new hires….

Source: BNET