Yesterdays APSCo members meeting was a panel session with the Firm - Forum of In house Recruitment Managers chaired by the Ann Swain and attended by well over a hundred members of APSCo.
It was a compelling listen, where the panelists representing Barclays Cap, Tesco, Pepsi and Symantec gave us recruiters a view from their world. It was not good news, they can do what we can do and probably better.
- Social networks has made Social Recruiting very easy and clients are using it extensively
- In house teams have large databases which they either do or don't manage in line with the DPA
- In house teams have ATS (applicant tracking systems) and will use them to save money
- In house value research (mapping of competitors) more highly than the recruitment service
What the industry needs is a way to be able to pitch a candidate to a client, knowing that they have not approached that candidate for that job, knowing that they wont then come back and say we already have that candidate (rotting) in their ATS or (unkept) in their Talent pool (linkedin group, Twitter followers or Facebook group)
Enter IT and our challenge is to make this happen!
PS I wonder who In house recruiters use to find their next job and how they stop research companies mapping their teams!
