Recruiting needs to anticipate our skill sets well ahead of us and then be able to tell us where to get them. We need to be in continuous search mode for top talent. We need to eliminate functional structures within HR if we are to improve recruiting. Recruiting needs to anticipate the market if we are going to get the best people. If you could do half of what Cisco does in recruiting, we would be extremely happy.
Some managers are just terrible at hiring.
We put the best managers in a hiring team and got significant results. We have to learn to be more diverse and inclusive. Employees in facilities located in remote areas used to be safe from poaching by other firms, that is no longer true in today's world of competitive recruiting. It is really hard but HR has to learn how to say no to many good ideas and good people and focus on a few important things. I need people with more experience.