Many corporates big & small are now appointing their own Internal recruiting teams.

While the internal TA teams deliver huge savings in agency fees for the corporates – they fail to see the hidden opportunity cost.

Despite the best of intentions and herculean efforts by corporate recruiting teams – quality, speed and branding suffer heavily.

The key issues with Corporate recruiting teams:

• They are too busy with day-to-day work rather than focusing on strategic work.
• They lack the budget and focus for targeted research.
• They are not exposed to the latest technology and solutions.
• They lack the bandwidth to search and engage with passive candidates.
• Good Candidates don’t respond/open up with Corporate recruiting teams as they see them as an interested party.
• Most Passive candidates approach and are in touch with focused Executive search firms but not Corporate recruiting teams.
• They are so much loaded with irrelevant data that all their time gets wasted and they land up focusing on low-hanging fruits.
• Job postings and advertisements very rarely produce quality speedy results and they land up recruiting the low-hanging fruits.
• They are like a frog in a well; have a very low market and competitive exposure.
• Get entangled in corporate bureaucracy and land up wasting time, money, and effort.

Instead, I would highly recommend corporates using internal recruiting teams for mass hiring and high quality-focused and well qualified/experienced external executive search firms for Mid/Senior level targeted recruiting search assignments.

This will yield the most optimum results in terms of speed, quality, and cost.

*The author runs a boutique Executive Search and Talent Acquisition firm ( Blue Genes Research) for more than 15 years – cracking the toughest Search challenges and Quickly delivering the Best Possible most exceptional relevant results.

*Blue Genes Research is a specialist Executive Search & Talent Acquisition firm. The team includes IIM & IIT alumni Senior Consultants and dedicated in-house research professionals.

*Blue Genes Research has a solid reputation for Speedy, Accurate, and High-Quality work.