HR Engage Podcast Ep 34 with Elizabeth Kingston

Wow.

Wow, wow, wow.

I wanted to maybe go back to the human resources

front.

And I want to get that sense that you have from an external perspective, being that in the external recruiter.

What are the two big pieces of advice you would have for any person in HR or is currently in HR?

From which perspective? From an AI future, from what we see about the best of the best in recruitment.

Any perspective you'd like to share.

Okay.

A commonly held belief that I see in new teams that I work with in HR, whether it's for an internal recruitment role or an external role that they're working with a recruitment agency partner, I see a belief that recruitment processes will take between two and up to six weeks.

Some of them will.

But what is really interesting is some of your competitors have worked very hard to re-engineer their recruitment process to a 48-hour process, not at the cost of quality.

A lot of people have, a lot of organizations believe it's going to take a long time to get this recruitment done.

Unfortunately, I argue that absolutely not.

A very well-engineered process, a well-structured process where you plan where to go, You can absolutely do a very high quality, in fact, a higher quality recruitment process in 48 hours.

And any organisations that are out there in South East Queensland saying, oh, you know, that would only be our Sydney and Melbourne based counterparts doing that.

No. some of your Queensland competitors are absolutely engineering that way.

So if your organization, you know, your job is to help your organization get the best and the brightest talent to deliver great outcomes.

And if you're constantly losing to your competitors, I would recommend that you sit down and go, okay, am I just resting on my laurels and allowing the belief that we're Oh, we're losing to our competitors because their brand is better than ours or their offering is better than ours.

Nope.

Sometimes you're actually losing the best talent because the structure of your recruitment process and you're losing because of your speed.

And people say sort of recruitment.

It's just a part of us.

I would say recruitment is your front door.

People experience your organization before they've even started with you.

Wow.

Wow, wow, wow.

I wanted to maybe go back to the human resources

front.

And I want to get that sense that you have from an external perspective, being that in the external recruiter.

What are the two big pieces of advice you would have for any person in HR or is currently in HR?

From which perspective? From an AI future, from what we see about the best of the best in recruitment.

Any perspective you'd like to share.

Okay.

A commonly held belief that I see in new teams that I work with in HR, whether it's for an internal recruitment role or an external role that they're working with a recruitment agency partner, I see a belief that recruitment processes will take between two and up to six weeks.

Some of them will.

But what is really interesting is some of your competitors have worked very hard to re-engineer their recruitment process to a 48-hour process, not at the cost of quality.

A lot of people have, a lot of organizations believe it's going to take a long time to get this recruitment done.

Unfortunately, I argue that absolutely not.

A very well-engineered process, a well-structured process where you plan where to go, You can absolutely do a very high quality, in fact, a higher quality recruitment process in 48 hours.

And any organisations that are out there in South East Queensland saying, oh, you know, that would only be our Sydney and Melbourne based counterparts doing that.

No. some of your Queensland competitors are absolutely engineering that way.

So if your organization, you know, your job is to help your organization get the best and the brightest talent to deliver great outcomes.

And if you're constantly losing to your competitors, I would recommend that you sit down and go, okay, am I just resting on my laurels and allowing the belief that we're Oh, we're losing to our competitors because their brand is better than ours or their offering is better than ours.

Nope.

Sometimes you're actually losing the best talent because the structure of your recruitment process and you're losing because of your speed.

And people say sort of recruitment.

It's just a part of us.

I would say recruitment is your front door.

People experience your organization before they've even started with you.