Comments on: Over-hiring Is Company Suicide http://www.ere.net/2009/12/16/over-hiring-economic-advantage-or-company-suicide/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:03:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Darren Lipski http://www.ere.net/2009/12/16/over-hiring-economic-advantage-or-company-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-17866 Darren Lipski Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:12:50 +0000 http://www.ere.net/?p=11053#comment-17866 Going to the "Overwhelmed" portion of your article, Stephen, there are companies like mine, RW Stearns, whose profiling service is designed to assist overworked HR departments by screening resumes against the req's they applied for, and then following up with the relevant candidates with a brief phone interview in which we ask targeted questions to those relevant candidates. While I know that my comment can be considered spam, I should mention that there are other companies that perform the same service we do. From where I and those in my company's niche in the industry stand, there is no valid reason for an HR organization to be overwhelmed by potential candidates. Going to the “Overwhelmed” portion of your article, Stephen, there are companies like mine, RW Stearns, whose profiling service is designed to assist overworked HR departments by screening resumes against the req’s they applied for, and then following up with the relevant candidates with a brief phone interview in which we ask targeted questions to those relevant candidates.

While I know that my comment can be considered spam, I should mention that there are other companies that perform the same service we do. From where I and those in my company’s niche in the industry stand, there is no valid reason for an HR organization to be overwhelmed by potential candidates.

]]> By: Jim Sullivan http://www.ere.net/2009/12/16/over-hiring-economic-advantage-or-company-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-17855 Jim Sullivan Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:59:37 +0000 http://www.ere.net/?p=11053#comment-17855 This is of course a dual edged sword. Hiring "overqualified" individuals almost always leads to them moving on. But were I in the same position and hired under these circumstances rather than be unemployed I would also take the position, and have counseled others to do the same. It's about putting food on the table, paying the mortgage, etc. Most of my major clients refuse to do this because they know that it leads to turnover, and like you mentioned, turnover costs money! There are a few cases however where people take a step back and it is actually a better move because they may have been promoted beyond their capabilities and that, in reality, led to their unemployment. Where now they are actually performing at peak. Doing it at a "mass level" will as you stated be disaterous in the long run as people will be more inclined to get a better job with "fair" salary This is of course a dual edged sword. Hiring “overqualified” individuals almost always leads to them moving on. But were I in the same position and hired under these circumstances rather than be unemployed I would also take the position, and have counseled others to do the same. It’s about putting food on the table, paying the mortgage, etc.
Most of my major clients refuse to do this because they know that it leads to turnover, and like you mentioned, turnover costs money!
There are a few cases however where people take a step back and it is actually a better move because they may have been promoted beyond their capabilities and that, in reality, led to their unemployment. Where now they are actually performing at peak.
Doing it at a “mass level” will as you stated be disaterous in the long run as people will be more inclined to get a better job with “fair” salary

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