Manage that cowlick… and get a stellar talent process.

Article contibuted by Jeff Jurinak. Follow Jeff on Twitter @JeffreyJurinak
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The more I started to think about Cowlicks, HR and Recruitment Process Outsourcing the more interested I became, so I jumped on Google, to search for articles on Cowlicks…Page after page of results yielded definitions and stories on how to “manage” cowlicks, work arounds such as electrolysis, waxing and even cosmetic surgery!

Have you ever thought how many hairs you have on your head? Just for you to know, an average person has about a 100,000 hairs…so many of them going in the same direction and they work to fit seamlessly with your style. Compare this to your sales, manufacturing, distribution and research teams; they are on the same page with your goals and direction. Then you come to your recruitment/talent need s, no matter how many people you hire to find talent, your shortages stand out like the famous cowlick. Eventually you face the facts, that cowlick is there like it is for a great many people or companies and how does one manage that?

Managing your cowlick means embracing it. Understand it is that unique part of the whole that has its own approach to success. The cowlick goes in just as many and unique directions as your talent needs. Recruitment Process Outsourcing can embrace a swirling and unique need and mold a process around your unique identifier (or cowlick), adapt to manage it (hiring needs) and bring that cowlick back into line with the rest of your business by operating a system across strains to understand, locate, and satisfy those needs and deliver a strategy that brings that cowlick back into place and makes its fit with the rest of you. That is what is great about RPO and conversely challenging for a traditional HR department.

Cowlicks are invetiable as we all have at least one, just like most of us have at least one specific talent challenge or need considering the alternatives to solutions other than plastic surgery can be an excellent strategy!

 For a different view on Cowlicks view my colleague Barry Diamond’s blog on RPOlosophy.


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