HR practitioners who have been tasked with assuming responsibility for "lower-end recruiting" activities as a cost-cutting measure during the recession will be expected to maintain these recruitment responsibilities once economic recovery is underway. This is the key prediction on "the future of recruiting", set out by UK recruitment consultant Bill Boorman in a guest post on Australia's The Savage Truth (external website) blog.
According to Boorman:
Corporate companies that have looked to cut cost during tough times will continue to do so in the boom times. I see this taking over much of the generalist market with HR teams taking on much of the lower end recruiting and traditional recruiters retreating further in to specialist niches where they can show real expertise. The upshot of this will be more generalist recruiters opting for a very low cost option based on the job boards.
HR's responsibilities when it comes to recruitment (subscription required) are covered in detail by 2009 benchmarking research from IRS. Responsibility for recruitment and selection most commonly falls to HR managers, at more than two-fifths (44.1%) of UK employers surveyed.
A further one in five (20.7%) respondents say that senior HR advisors are tasked with recruitment responsibilities, followed by junior HR advisors (at 15.3% of organisations surveyed).
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