{"id":1466,"date":"2008-03-12T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/always-be-scouting\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T16:14:01","slug":"always-be-scouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/always-be-scouting\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Be Scouting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Human Resource Executive Online&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hreonline.com\/HRE\/story.jsp?storyId=78811308\">Uncertain Economy, Uneven Hiring<\/a> (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard Fanelli, president of Fanelli McClain Design Studios, a commercial interior planning and design firm located in Fairfax, Va., says that <strong>his company is not hiring right now, but they&#8217;re scouting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to have the workload to support new hires,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But if I were to find the right person, I might hire them and then market harder to justify the hire.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is an interesting turn of phrase, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 &#8220;Scouting&#8221; is an excellent verb to use in this context.\u00a0 This is a practice we preach, but most companies don&#8217;t scout consistently.\u00a0 This lack of consistency leads to a mad scramble after a salesperson walks in on a Friday afternoon and resigns.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s high productivity, fast-paced market may make these scouting activities difficult for a sales manager to accomplish while growing revenue.\u00a0 That is where a company like ours can stand in the gap and provide scouting reports on available candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Human Resource Executive Online&#8217;s Uncertain Economy, Uneven Hiring (emphasis mine): Richard Fanelli, president of Fanelli McClain Design Studios, a commercial interior planning and design firm located in Fairfax, Va., says that his company is not hiring right now, but they&#8217;re scouting. &#8220;We have to have the workload to support new hires,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But if I were to find the right person, I might hire them and then market harder to justify the hire.&#8221; That is an interesting turn of phrase, isn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 &#8220;Scouting&#8221; is an excellent verb to use in this context.\u00a0 This is a practice we preach, but most companies don&#8217;t scout consistently.\u00a0 This lack of consistency&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/always-be-scouting\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[1762,47,430,431],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-nE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->