{"id":1507,"date":"2008-04-09T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/recessions-are-tactical-problems-recruiting-is-strategic\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:58:43","slug":"recessions-are-tactical-problems-recruiting-is-strategic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/recessions-are-tactical-problems-recruiting-is-strategic\/","title":{"rendered":"Recessions Are Tactical Problems, Recruiting Is Strategic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Rothberg over at CollegeRecruiter.com provides a money quote in his post <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.collegerecruiter.com\/weblog\/2008\/04\/why_todays_coll.php\">Why Today&#8217;s College Students Need Not Fear Exploding Offers<\/a>.\u00a0 Obviously, Steven&#8217;s market is geared towards college students, but this paragraph is applicable to all businesses when it comes to hiring (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The recession of 2001-03 was worse than the recession of 2008 and employers are looking backwards in order to better understand what to do as they move forwards. Although many and perhaps most employers have scaled back their college hiring plans for this spring, there&#8217;s little talk of exploding offers. More employers realize that recessions are tactical problems and college recruiting is strategic. <strong>You don&#8217;t solve tactical problems by grossly altering and certainly not abandoning your strategic vision.<\/strong> You may tweak the strategy here and nip it a bit there in order to survive the tough times, but organizations which confuse tactics with strategy are organizations which tend not to survive let alone thrive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is excellent advice for any company in this present economy.\u00a0 I experienced this abandonment of strategic vision back in 2001 as a Regional Sales Manager for a high-tech company.\u00a0 The company was small, but growing quickly in a niche market.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the President buckled under the potential economic impact of a recession and abandoned the very principles that had grown the business.\u00a0 Instead of slight adjustments, he collapsed the entire company by attempting to go a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of a short post from Seth Godin a while back titled <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2007\/06\/that_moment.html\">That moment<\/a>.\u00a0 Here it is in it&#8217;s entirety:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful&#8230; and you blink and take a step back.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the moment. The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck.<\/p>\n<p>All the hard work and preparation and daring and luck is nothing compared with the ability to not blink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Rothberg over at CollegeRecruiter.com provides a money quote in his post Why Today&#8217;s College Students Need Not Fear Exploding Offers.\u00a0 Obviously, Steven&#8217;s market is geared towards college students, but this paragraph is applicable to all businesses when it comes to hiring (emphasis mine): The recession of 2001-03 was worse than the recession of 2008 and employers are looking backwards in order to better understand what to do as they move forwards. Although many and perhaps most employers have scaled back their college hiring plans for this spring, there&#8217;s little talk of exploding offers. More employers realize that recessions are tactical problems and college recruiting is strategic. You don&#8217;t solve&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/recessions-are-tactical-problems-recruiting-is-strategic\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,31,11],"tags":[1748,31,520,168],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-leadership","category-team-management","tag-hiring","tag-leadership","tag-recession-hiring","tag-recruiting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-oj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1650,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/countercyclical-market-segments-are-hiring\/","url_meta":{"origin":1507,"position":0},"title":"Countercyclical Market Segments Are Hiring","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Career News (sorry, no link) references an article regarding job market growth in 3 specific sectors (my bold): While hiring in the financial and consumer discretionary sectors has clearly been impacted by the continued fall-out from the mortgage market collapse, the technology, healthcare and defense sectors are all adding\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2173,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/11\/when-will-it-end\/","url_meta":{"origin":1507,"position":1},"title":"When Will It End?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Great Recession roars on during this holiday season.\u00a0 Our company is focused on sales hiring, both assessing candidates for our customers and running full recruiting processes.\u00a0 The hiring outlook is of great importance to us and a topic I try to track closely. That being said, this abcnews.com article\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1784,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/11\/job-churn\/","url_meta":{"origin":1507,"position":2},"title":"Job Churn","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Career News newsletter has a short article about \"job churn\" that provides some good news for our present economic situation. The immediate reaction of companies, in a slumping U.S. economy, is to pull back on hiring activity, declare hiring freezes and even make layoff announcements. But these are only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1467,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/a-soft-hiring-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":1507,"position":3},"title":"A Soft Hiring Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Manpower's quarterly survey is often considered a bellwether of the upcoming labor market.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal reports on this trend in Hiring Plans Soften Across Industries. The title sounds a dire alarm, but there\u00a0 is an interesting quote within the article: Jonas Prising, president of Manpower North America, characterized\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":839,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/defining-the-battle-for-talent\/","url_meta":{"origin":1507,"position":4},"title":"Defining The Battle For Talent","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"April 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The biggest challenge employers face in recruiting new hires is the competition between companies for talent\" notes Worldwide ERC, the association for global workforce mobility management. According to an article on their website, more than 90% of the companies surveyed are having problems recruiting the right people and more than\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1940,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/find-the-15\/","url_meta":{"origin":1507,"position":5},"title":"Find The 15%","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"CNNMoney.com provides this article regarding 2009 hiring.\u00a0 As you may expect, hiring is down and it appears more cuts are coming soon: Of the 31,800 employers surveyed, only 15% anticipate hiring more employees during the second quarter, down from 16% in the first quarter and 26% in the same period\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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