- October 13, 2008
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Unintentional Results of Implementing a Hiring Freeze
Today I came across an article by Dr. John Sullivan on ERE.net that was so well written and to the point that I felt it was worth passing on verbatim. Plus, for me to say hiring freezes are inherently bad for a business seems a little self-serving. In the article, Dr. Sullivan discusses how The Economic Downturn Means That Hiring Freezes Will Soon Decimate Recruiting.
His statements, however, extend beyond the world of the recruiter, and flow into overall company operations. He suggests that although a hiring freeze may free up some company funds in the short term, ultimately the company ends up spending more due to the costs of outsourcing and overtime. And this doesn’t even start to gauge the unmeasured costs of employee burnout, the missed opportunity to grab up top players from the competition or the inability to add new innovative thinking to an organization – just to name a few.
Dr. Sullivan closes his article with the plea for businesses to get more strategic. He goes on to say, “Now is the time for talent management to step up and proactively re-engineer antiquated practices and programs, and to embed talent management activities throughout core business processes while the organization can accommodate change. If you wait until things are moving fast once again, you won’t have time to be strategic; you’ll be too busy catching up!”
Click here to read the full article. It’s a good one, packed with great impact statements/objections some of you might be able to use when faced with an impending hiring freeze.
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Hiring freezes are as great time to show a client that you are with them even during the tough times in corporate life. Staffing firms that are only interested in bringing bagels in to the offices in which their staff work, are setting themselves up. You can make partners during the expansions and you can make great friends during the downturn.
Logically associates that go threw the down time are more likely to understand that its a corporate move. Yet we on the associate level see what goes on and we as associates dont like it,agian its about having new associates giving there “all” and seeing that things dont change and yes this article is correct the new millenium has come. Even thoe it has came corporations are still implimenting bad ideas that inevitably lead to the downfall of corporate america. My aggenda is to let you and all aware that we as long term associates are burn-out without corporate directing us in a universal incline in help associates or better budgeting for corporate america.I would be pleased if corporate america hired associates at store level to assist in corporate ventures of new implemented procedures to induce a tighter structure for practices and programs. This was my 2 cents….
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