Expanding the Talent Pool:
Recruitment and Careers
Chapter
5
If the most talented and capable employees aren’t working for your organization, they’re
working for your competition. Therefore, this chapter’s focus on recruiting talent externally
and internally and developing the talent of those already on the payroll are topics critical to
any organization’s success. In addition, the chapter addresses important recruiting and career
issues such as analyzing employee competencies; providing career counseling, mentoring,
and networking opportunities; and recruiting and developing women, minorities, the disabled,
older workers, and dual-career couples.
Chapter Outline
STRATEGIC ASPECTS OF RECRUITING
Who Should Do the Recruiting?
Should a Firm Recruit Internally or Externally?
Labor Markets
Regional and Global Labor Markets
Branding
RECRUITING INTERNALLY
Internal Job Postings
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Public Employment Agencies
Private Employment and Temporary Agencies
Employee Leasing
IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RECRUITING
Using Realistic Job Previews
Surveys
CAREER MANAGEMENT: DEVELOPING TALENT OVER TIME
The Goal: Matching Individual and Organizational Needs
The Employee’s Role
The Organization’s Role: Establishing a Favorable Career Development Climate
Blending the Goals of Individual Employees with the Goals of the Organization
Career Self-Management Training
DEVELOPING A DIVERSE TALENT POOL
Recruiting and Developing Women
Eliminating Women’s Barriers to Advancement
Advancing Women to Management
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OTHER IMPORTANT TALENT CONCERNS
Recruiting the Disabled
Employing the Older Workforce
Employing Dual-Career Couples
Generating Interest
Addressing this common misperception at the outset can help students embrace the
importance of this chapter: Recruiting is a totally irrelevant topic to me as I don’t ever see
Dealing with Trouble Spots
One way to relate the two topics of this chapter is to use Jim Collins’ bus analogy in Good to
Great. In one sense, recruiting is “getting the right people on the bus” and career
DEVELOPING PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
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CHOOSING A CAREER
Use of Available Resources
Involving Students
From your students’ experiences, identify those by a show of hands who acquired a job via