Comments on: The Seven Axioms of Yves Behar http://www.ere.net/2007/10/12/the-seven-axioms-of-yves-behar/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:35:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Keith Halperin http://www.ere.net/2007/10/12/the-seven-axioms-of-yves-behar/comment-page-1/#comment-3172 Keith Halperin Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:24:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/10/12/the-seven-axioms-of-yves-behar/#comment-3172 A thoughtful, well-written article. Here are a few alternative axioms: 1) You will have to recruit everyone you hire- they (anyone you actually hire) will not come to you. 2) Hiring should be a deliverable of the hiring managers as much as getting out a quality product on time and within budget. 3) If you can't afford to pay the best, go after the rest. 4) If you can afford to pay an agency fee, you can afford 1/3-1/2 of that amount as an employee referral fee- make it an expectation of the employees that they will be referring their friends and colleagues, and be generously paid for it. 5) If you want to improve your hiring process, ask the people doing the hiring- the sourcers, recruiters, and coordinators. 6) Let sourcers source, recruiters recruit, and coordinators coordinate- they shouldn't be spending more than 5% of the time documenting what they do the other 95%. 7) Keep your hiring process or ATS simple and robust- if it takes a formal half-day orientation to figure out, it's too complicated. There will be more about these and others shortly in my ERE blog, ?The Real World of Recruiting'. Thank You, A thoughtful, well-written article.

Here are a few alternative axioms:
1) You will have to recruit everyone you hire- they (anyone you actually hire) will not come to you.
2) Hiring should be a deliverable of the hiring managers as much as getting out a quality product on time and within budget.
3) If you can’t afford to pay the best, go after the rest.
4) If you can afford to pay an agency fee, you can afford 1/3-1/2 of that amount as an employee referral fee- make it an expectation of the employees that they will be referring their friends and colleagues, and be generously paid for it.
5) If you want to improve your hiring process, ask the people doing the hiring- the sourcers, recruiters, and coordinators.
6) Let sourcers source, recruiters recruit, and coordinators coordinate- they shouldn’t be spending more than 5% of the time documenting what they do the other 95%.
7) Keep your hiring process or ATS simple and robust- if it takes a formal half-day orientation to figure out, it’s too complicated.

There will be more about these and others shortly in my ERE blog, ?The Real World of Recruiting’.

Thank You,

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