With a lot of our clients here at Russell Reynolds Associates Ltd, we introduce them to new and innovative sourcing strategies to help them hire and retain top talent in their industries. What sourcing strategies are you familiar with and most successful
In the business industry, consultants are often called upon when organizations have exhausted all internal options to get the job done. On the recruitment side of things, you as a consultant must be able to thing outside of the box to come up with new and creative ways to help clients hire new talent into their organization. To gauge how you will do this, your interviewer will be looking to hear about the sourcing strategies you have utilized that are creative and unique and have worked with success. This will allow them insight as to how you will work with potential clients if hired at Russell Reynolds Associates Ltd.
"During my career, I've utilized many sourcing strategies. These have included email blasts to competitors, attending industry events and re-branding to help recruit. But to me, the importance of uniqueness in sourcing is what truly sets an organization apart to attracting top talent. My current organization was having trouble recruiting engineering staff for many years. We attended events, we discretely contacted high profile engineers from across the country and sent out recruitment postcards to members of one of the engineering societies and none of those strategies work. Basing off of past experience, we started a networking campaign among our current engineering staff by doing some recruitment training for them over the course of a couple team meetings. We also approached executive leadership about creating a referral bonus for the engineering staff. Based on the great job satisfaction of our staff, the networking campaign led to four hires within the first six months and truly showed me how powerful expert to expert networking could be."
