Make 'Chief Hiring Officer' A Thing
Fetch is never going to happen...
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Barebones, you need 3 things to run a business:
A product (or service)
Someone to sell it
The ability to hire more people (to make and sell it)
I sometimes see hot takes that we should rip Talent Acquisition out of HR (we should). Then have it report through some other area (we shouldn’t).
Why is shuffling it around not the answer?
Because Talent Acquisition is not an HR function. It’s not a marketing function. And it’s not a sales function.
It’s ALL these things.
2 years ago I was on the throw-it-under-marketing bandwagon. They know how to get the eyeballs and build interest, right?
Except they have a completely different audience and focus. And marketers are as overworked as the rest of us.
More importantly: they’re not any closer to the front lines with job seekers than recruiters themselves.
There’s an obvious truth here:
👉Hiring is too important to be a sub-division of some-other-thing.
Chief Hiring Officer. Make that a thing.
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