Lean Recruitment

Lean is a principle we have adapted with great success within our own business and has formed the basis of recommendations to our clients to maximise efficiencies and streamline processes within their recruitment process. This book outlines how you might use lean to do more with less within your recruitment process. This book is used to remind ourselves again the core idea of Lean is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. We looked at how you can streamline your recruitment processes by accommodating lean thinking into your recruitment process in this book.

The prospect of finding the right candidate for an open job position can be daunting to even the most seasoned manager. There is more competition than ever for high performing employees, and the ramifications of making a poor hire are significant. Only the largest and wealthiest organizations can afford the standard of service offered by traditional recruitment firms......until now. Based on years of experience recruiting for clients, Gary Romano and Alison LaRocca (Principals of Civitas Strategies and Access HR) present Lean Recruitment(c)- a proven recruiting methodology they devised specifically for businesses and nonprofits to self-implement at fraction of the cost and time of traditional recruiting. In Lean Recruitment: Finding Better Talent Faster you will learn how to: - Identify and prioritize the most essential qualifications for any job in your organization. - Construct a highly-effective job announcement designed to attract the talent you want. - Mobilize your personal network to build a pool of quality candidates. - Strategically select the 'where' and 'how' of sharing the job posting to maximize impact. - Use virtual headhunting to target the top performers in your field for possible candidacy...even if they aren't currently seeking a new job. - Employ research-based scoring techniques to quickly narrow the applicant pool and eliminate biases in decision-making. - Interview potential candidates with maximum efficacy. Lean Recruitment: Finding Better Talent Faster is the toolbox you are looking for to find the talent you need, quickly and at any budget.

This publication is in collaboration with the University of Buckingham and is the result of a combined research and review process carried out by the three Editors who belongs to the University of Ferrara, Italy, the University of Buckingham, UK and Swansea University, UK. The book deepens the debate about the lean enterprise from both an academic and a professional management perspective. It thus provides the reader with a sound understanding of the modern lean enterprise and its current evolution. A range of innovative topics are covered, with individual chapters addressing the combinations of lean with hoshin kanri, green management, IT, organizational learning, flow accounting, system thinking, problem solving, internationalization aspects, luxury industry, and product innovation. Since the term “lean” first entered contemporary operations management language in 1990 to describe a set of practices proven to deliver superior performance over mass production systems, the lean approach to waste reduction and value generation has moved from vehicle production to other manufacturing sectors. It has reshaped the support functions of manufacturing businesses and has evolved from private industry into the public sector. Lean thinking is now a dominant model of operations management and has brought with it a new language and toolbox.

Are you tired of having that "perfect" job candidate slip away between your fingers? Are you frustrated with ever-changing hiring requirements? Are you discouraged by the lack of qualified talent in the marketplace? The Lean Recruiting Toolkit provides simple solutions to these and other challenges facing talent acquisition professionals in today's hyper-competitive, candidate-driven marketplace. It is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating and executing your very own Lean and Agile recruiting strategies to ensure you hire better employees faster -- who end up staying longer. What's more, using the Kaizen theory of continuous improvement, your results get better and better over time, freeing up your schedule to do the rest of your job! Using the Lean Recruiting Canvas created by recruiting expert Craig E Brown, you will be carefully guided through this strategic framework in a methodical, yet efficient, fashion. Whether it is... - Accurately defining the core problem that led management to believe that hiring someone is necessary,- Deciding which characteristics and traits are necessary for a specific role based on proof points,- Or analyzing the Return-on-Investment (ROI) of your new hire to ensure business requirements are met or exceeded.In this timely release, Brown provides actionable and best-in-class strategies for finding your next hire -- with loads of fantastic examples and real-world anecdotes along the way.

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