HIRING SERVICE: Strategic Sourcing Plan

One of the greatest mistakes that frequently lead to hiring errors in excess of 50% is fishing in shallow waters.

Many companies that embark upon a search for a key executive or manager fail to attract selective and sleeper candidates. Instead, they attract aggressive candidates who are usually in the bottom 1/3 of the candidate pool.

We've discovered in our research over the last 25 years a heavy reliance on traditional methods of sourcing, such as posting an online job description masquerading as an advertisement, making a few networking calls, or sending out a few emails.

The only time this "half-hearted" approach to finding top talent works is when LUCK intervenes. We all know that LUCK and HOPE are not useful strategies.

If you want to ensure that your next executive or senior management hire is top talent and can deliver your desired results, then you must have a Strategic Sourcing Plan that looks concurrently at multiple channels, using the very best practices. STOP crossing your fingers hoping that the right candidate will fall into your lap.

We'll create a Strategic Sourcing Plan for a key hire. We'll show you how to quickly exploit a wide range of potential sources for your open position. Contact us now to request a custom quote on putting together a Strategic Sourcing Plan. Don't leave hiring for a critical role to chance or luck!

Hiring Management IMPACT of a Strategic Sourcing Plan

We've replicated the chart below from the Chapter "How to Attract the Bottom Third of the Candidate Pool" from our book, You're NOT the Person I Hired and from our popular course by the same name. Executives and managers constantly lament the lack of talent available when a critical position needs to be filled.

Unfortunately, the old line, "you reap what you sow" applies to finding top talent. When traditional methods are used, the result frequently is to pull average and mediocre candidates from the Aggressive category.

If you cannot bring outstanding talent to the table, it doesn't matter how wonderful your opportunity is, how great the future of the company looks, or how magnificently the hiring manager conducts the interview. You're doomed to fail before you even start.

A Strategic Sourcing Plan ensures you'll bring the very best talent to the table by focusing on where the Selectives and Sleepers are. Techniques to hook these top performers requires a plan that identifies specifically in which ponds to fish and how deeply to fish.

Most companies treat the sourcing/finding of candidates like it's a high school sport. In most high schools, you cannot recruit for team members. Whoever lives in the high school district and decides to "show up" that year, is the team the coach is stuck with. If the coach does not have enough talented players, then you've got to play the "best of the worst".

Our question is this: Why do most hiring executives and managers treat the hiring of a top performer as if they're running a high school sports team? As a company, you have unlimited opportunities to find the best talent by fishing deeply in the right ponds.

Our Strategic Sourcing Plan will help you identify specifically into which ponds to cast your line and how deeply to fish. STOP skimming the surface for candidates yelling "take me,  take me". The primary motivation of these candidates is to just get a paycheck from you. Top talent doesn't need your job. They're not trolling the job boards daily, many of them already have a great job.

A Strategic Sourcing Plan will show you how to get the Selectives and Sleepers to raise their hand to learn more about your compelling opportunity.

Testimonials for the Hiring Service: Strategic Sourcing Plan

"IMPACT Hiring Solutions developed a Strategic Sourcing Plan for our VP of Operations position and we quickly found an outstanding person. We would have never thought of the wide variety of places recommended in this plan to find our candidate. Our approach would have been to post the job description on one of the job boards. We discovered that this was not an effective approach after hiring a VP that didn't work out."

M.J. General Manager
Furniture Manufacturing Company
Raleigh, N.C.

"The Strategic Sourcing Plan allowed us to find the best person for an open Division President position. We were amazed at the different places we could go to identify potential candidates. IMPACT Hiring Solutions brought a level of creativity and resourcefulness to finding a great person that we would never have applied to the search."

Next Steps for the Hiring Service: Strategic Sourcing Plan

Give us to call to learn about how a Strategic Sourcing Plan can bring Selective and Sleeper candidates to your company.

STOP the cycle right now of hiring mistakes. Never again feel like you're trapped with picking from the "best of the worst" because that's who showed up at your doorstep this week.

To see if the E-Sourcing Project might be a good strategy to fill your current opening, look into our FREE Sourcing Assessment, where we'll take a look at all the strategies you're using to fill that critical role. We'll benchmark your strategies against best practices and present a series of recommendations on how to get that job filled quickly with top talent.

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