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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Brainhunter360 - Change the way you recruit
If you currently use a supplier or suppliers for your recruiting technology, website creative, media planning/buying, press/job board advertising, outsourced resourcing and direct recruitment services, you could be using between 10 and 20 different suppliers and managing calls, relationships and financial activity with them all on an ongoing basis.
There is now an alternative. Brainhunter360 is a one stop shop for any recruitment, talent management and staffing need or activity. I won't go into detail because we have a website for that, which includes information regarding being able to post your jobs for free all the way through to contracting your entire recruitment and talent acquisition process to us.
Take a look at Brainhunter360 and once you do, you won't look back.
Colin.
There is now an alternative. Brainhunter360 is a one stop shop for any recruitment, talent management and staffing need or activity. I won't go into detail because we have a website for that, which includes information regarding being able to post your jobs for free all the way through to contracting your entire recruitment and talent acquisition process to us.
Take a look at Brainhunter360 and once you do, you won't look back.
Colin.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Recession Virgin
After confessing to being a Recession Virgin at My Long Lunch today, I highlighted why I was qualified to speak on the subject of ‘Innovation During Times of Recession’.
Quite simply, like almost everyone else in the room (my fellow Virgins), I have had to perform a 360 degree analysis of our business and implement creative and innovative measures to drive the business forward through these challenging times.
I shared my methodology with the group because a definite balance is needed between continuing the focus on traditional operating strategy and thinking creatively and innovatively.
I strongly believe that people should first think innovatively about how their businesses currently operate, not how to take them and their service offering(s) in new directions. It is vitally important to analyse what activities are still delivering value and do more of the same, before starting to identify innovative pathways. In essence, there is no room for panic tactics.
Once you have streamlined the business and shored up the spine of your operation and business strategy, you can start to be creative and innovative to support the strengthened operation, just like a team sports manager who builds a solid structure but when necessary substitutes in players who can bring width, depth strength or pace, depending on the challenges faced by opponents game by game.
Our innovations feed off what we have already built at Brainhunter to add further value to clients, and part of me is thankful of the economic situation because without it, we wouldn’t have thought of, researched and launched a range of complimentary and innovative solutions that give Brainhunter competitive edge.
If you innovate in a controlled manner, you can test new theory’s and approaches without risk, because doing something might yield a result and it might not, whereas doing nothing always generates nothing, in fact you could start to go backwards.
In addition if you don’t innovate and others around you do and strike gold, when the economic situation improves, imagine how far ahead of you they will be!
Quite simply, like almost everyone else in the room (my fellow Virgins), I have had to perform a 360 degree analysis of our business and implement creative and innovative measures to drive the business forward through these challenging times.
I shared my methodology with the group because a definite balance is needed between continuing the focus on traditional operating strategy and thinking creatively and innovatively.
I strongly believe that people should first think innovatively about how their businesses currently operate, not how to take them and their service offering(s) in new directions. It is vitally important to analyse what activities are still delivering value and do more of the same, before starting to identify innovative pathways. In essence, there is no room for panic tactics.
Once you have streamlined the business and shored up the spine of your operation and business strategy, you can start to be creative and innovative to support the strengthened operation, just like a team sports manager who builds a solid structure but when necessary substitutes in players who can bring width, depth strength or pace, depending on the challenges faced by opponents game by game.
Our innovations feed off what we have already built at Brainhunter to add further value to clients, and part of me is thankful of the economic situation because without it, we wouldn’t have thought of, researched and launched a range of complimentary and innovative solutions that give Brainhunter competitive edge.
If you innovate in a controlled manner, you can test new theory’s and approaches without risk, because doing something might yield a result and it might not, whereas doing nothing always generates nothing, in fact you could start to go backwards.
In addition if you don’t innovate and others around you do and strike gold, when the economic situation improves, imagine how far ahead of you they will be!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
An interesting debate this morning with my train friends regarding the logic surrounding candidates' fears for applying for jobs and switching roles, given the current economic uncertainty.
It was a real dividing subject because some believed it was better to stick with the devil you know and take the safe option. This also included crossing ones fingers that the incumbent company can ride the economic storm.
Other's, including myself, thought that every business is being affected in one way or another at present so if a company is employing, it means they are growing or replacing a critical role, which should generate a perception of safety and if you are a good candidate you can negotiate the right package for your ability.
What do you think?
It was a real dividing subject because some believed it was better to stick with the devil you know and take the safe option. This also included crossing ones fingers that the incumbent company can ride the economic storm.
Other's, including myself, thought that every business is being affected in one way or another at present so if a company is employing, it means they are growing or replacing a critical role, which should generate a perception of safety and if you are a good candidate you can negotiate the right package for your ability.
What do you think?
Friday, February 27, 2009
Creative, innovative and do more of the same
It appears I created my headstone message in a meeting this week. No I'm not on my way out (well at least I don't think so) but I summarised what our response to the economic downturn needed to be, which is to be creative, innovative and do more of the same.
My team won't let me forget this and my co-director Gareth Osborne very kindly translated into Latin - Partum innovatium quod magis of idem eadem idem - any Latin scholars out there please confirm what this really means LOL!
But seriously, we are in economic decline but don't forget we have had 16 years of quarter by quarter growth, so just like 'whatever goes up can come down', 'whatever goes down can, and in the case of the economy, will come up', so dig yourselves in and be creative, innovative, and if you strongly believe you are working hard and smart, do more of the same.
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Brainhunter is growing its staffing division. If you are a professional and accomplished niche sector recruiter, contact us now! colin.minto@brainhunter.co.uk
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