HR Guide to Recruitment

Publisher: Excel Media Group Ltd
ISBN: 9789881960535
Published In: January 2011
Format: Paperback , 238 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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In the guide train yourself on...
- How to recruit more effectively.
- Global recruitment of local candidates.
- Becoming and remaining an employer of choice.
Also receive...
- A comprehensive listing of recruitment providers across the region.
- Recruitment case studies from some of the top employers in the region.
- Practical advice from award winning HR directors and recruitment heads.
What's the guide aimed at?

The guide aims to share industry best practices and practical advice from recruiters working both in-house in the HR field and out-house in the recruitment sector. The guide also aims to provide an easy-to-read overview of recruitment providers in the region. The listings provide a summary profile of different providers’ background and experience in managing recruitment functions, specify each provider’s key services, and highlight areas of expertise.

What's the guide aimed at?

As a HR professional the guide will help you identify the best consultant(s) to meet your recruitment needs and get help and advice in the following areas:
- Conducting recruitment and selection processes
- Acquiring long-term and short-term staff
- Acquiring and developing a pool of talent for fixed-term and ongoing positions
- Developing and maintaining a robust talent pipeline
- Specialist expertise and strategies in the recruitment field
Foreword
Recruitment, a word that often conjures up fear in the eyes of many in HR, is something that every company needs to do. Constantly evolving, recruitment requires continual maintenance from HR and—if done properly—requires a variety of different approaches to maximise its effectiveness in different segments of the talent pool.

Bringing the right talent on-board is a core HR function that is fundamental to building successful and sustainable organisations. There has been significant debate about the best ways to go about achieving this. As ever, HR Magazine helps you cut to the chase and shares practical advice on what works well and what doesn’t. We share observations and advice from a variety of perspectives including in-house recruiters, HR directors, consultant recruiters and the Hong Kong Government.

In this guide learn…

Innovative recruitment strategies—as the reach and effectiveness of job boards wanes, we examine the use of social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn together with mobile technologies as recruitment channels.

The importance of pre-screening—with the avalanche of resumes reaching HR inboxes, pre-screening is becoming an essential tool to ensure only the best and honest candidates make it through.

Important cross-cultural and generational differences that exist in the recruitment landscape and how best to deal with them.

How to segment recruitment efforts to best suit the different components of the available talent pool—embracing diversity and recruiting to take advantage of fully integrating LGBTs, different generations, different abilities and different cultures and nationalities within the workforce.

The importance of employer brand—creating, maintaining and adapting employer brand, recruitment best practices and EVPs to keep attracting and retaining HiPos.

Decruitment techniques and strategies that reduce employer liability and maintain employer brand, while still being sensitive to and nurturing outgoing talent.

Read on…recruit and retain

Paul Arkwright
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HR Magazine
Chapters include:
- Introduction
  
  Current regional recruitment landscape
  
  "It’s easy to find a job in the current market"
  
  Upbeat hiring forecast
  
  Employer expectations—how much is too much?
  
  More graduates take on part-time, temporary contracts
  
  Strategic targeted recruitment
  
  No more Russian roulette recruiting
  
  Recruit musicians not MBAs
- Corporate perspectives
  
  City Telecom (HK): talent selection
  
  DHL Express Greater China: bringing employer of choice to life
  
  Hang Seng Bank: HR strategies
  
  Hsin Chong Construction: line managers key in recruitment
  
  Jardines’ HR recruitment roadmap
  
  Manulife Financial: recruitment strategies
  
  Newell Rubbermaid: proactive recruitment strategies
  
  Oregon Scientific: recruiting the Oregon Trail of leaders
  
  Standard Chartered: identifying your talent bank
  
  TurboJet: smooth sailing to find right talent
- Consultant perspectives
  - ConnectedGroup: HR Fight Club
  - HR in the fast lane
  - Recruitment uncovered
  - Recruiting your recruitment firm
  - How the hunter becomes the hunted
  - Sourcing good HR Outsourcers
  - Building high performance teams
  - Volume recruitment
  - You never get a second chance to make a first impression
- Attracting staff without money
  - Money often speaks louder than words
  - But money isn’t everything
- Recruiting in emerging markets
  - Entering into emerging markets
  - Recruitment retention in China
  - Pollution & recruitment
- Recruitment technology & social media
  - Free recruitment database eases pain of candidate searches
  - Talent quest
  - Half of employees now communicating via social media
  - Marketing & recruitment
  - Facebook talent
  - Googling for talent
  - Tech savvy HR...I think not
- Screening applicants
  - Pulling the wool over HR’s eyes
  - Seeing is believing
  - Getting psychometrics right
- Attracting Gen-Y
  - The generation game
  - Communication critical for Gen-Y recruitment
  - Better work-life balance
  - Social networking vs social notworking
- From employer of choice...to providing employee choices
  - Attracting talent
  - Back to basics with employer branding
  - What is it that attracts & drives talent?
  - Employee volunteering
  - HR Role in corporate branding
  - Employer branding
  - Universities not instilling work-life balance...so it's up to HR
- Compensation and benefits
  - Mind the gap
  - Payroll up 5% in 2011
  - Is HK HR ready for audit by the labour department?
- Cross-cultural and diversity considerations
  - Creating inclusive workplaces for LGBT employees in Hong Kong
  - How effective are your HR discrimination skills?
  - Getting women on the Board
  - Towards a global recruitment culture
  - The business case for recruitment diversity
  - Merrill Lynch on leveraging diversity & inclusion
  - Recruiting to ensure diversity and inclusion
- Decruitment
  - Spotlight on references—obligations and risks for employers
  - Avoiding liability when giving references
  - Don't ask, Don't tell
  - Exit strategies
  - Outsourcing decruitment
- Recruiter overview
  - General Recruiters
  - Executive Recruiters
  - Specialised Recruiters
  - Mobile Recruitment Services
  - Recruiter Matrix
Contributors
In order of inclusion in the guide:
- MRI China Group
- eFinancial Careers
- Manpower
- Robert Half
- Adecco
- John Putzier, MS., SPHR—FirStep, Inc.
- Mathew Gollop—ConnectedGroup
- James Hewitt & Karen Perron—SilkRoad Technology
- Brien Keegan—Ranstad
- Mark Geary—AsiaNet Consultants
- Erik Schmit—Lumesse
- Adrian Ashurst—Worldbox Business Intelligence
- Greg Basham—eevoices
- Dr Graham Tyler—PsyAsia International
- Premiere Global
- Community Business
- Universum
- Robert Walters
- Cranfield School of Management
- Dr Magdalena Meller
- Richard Welford—CSE Asia
- Pattie Walsh—DLA Piper
- Richard Bates—Kennedys
- Michael Downey—Hong Kong and China Employment Law Group
Soundbites
A huge thank you to all those who, in interviews and/or at our conferences, took time to share their ideas that helped to make this guide possible. They include—in order of inclusion in the guide:

Andrew J. Filipowski, William Yeung, Joseph Poon, Steve Chow, Ritchie Bent, Cliff Davis, Anthony Williams, Dr Frankie Lam, Fern Ngai, Anna Hong, Mathew Gollop, Adam Edwards, James Mendes, Annie Cheung, Richard Crespin, Kendrew Yu, Dr Helen Fung, Erik Schmit, Joanne Rigby, Eddie Ng Hak-Kim, Shaun Bernier, Jim Thompson, Michal Kalinowski, Johan Ramel, Avril Henry, Professor John Bacon-Shone, Deidre Lander, Jennifer Van Dale, Subha Barry, Kate Vernon, Richie Bent among many others…