Optimization = Process + Facilitation

The problem is recognizing at what stage or level should managers approach talent acquisition and workforce optimization?

There is a fundamental formulaic process talent acquisition has formed over the years. At a glance, a business manager may deem the process to be simple. From a talent acquisition or recruiting practitioner sees something more complex. Talent Acquisition Process Flow Chart listed below is a simplified example of the steps. Four easy steps that justify a hire and the process the talent chain introduces.

The process can take 24 hours or it can take 24 weeks depending on your organization and lack there of optimization technologies.

Need > Information > Distribution > Action

The stages and levels can differ due to several staged factors:

• Level of Practitioner Competency
• Justification of Need and Measure of Retur
• Budgets (in some cases lack thereof)
• Management Approval cycles
• Talent Supply

Implementing and use optimization technology to facilitate this complex process is more the norm than ever before.

The need is generated whether due to lack of resources or loss of resources; the business partner calculates a need. The data is formulated or justification statement for the role is etched hopefully based on metrics and measurements that directly relate to sales, marketing and product development. The data or information is disseminated through the management channels and teams; this level is crucial because the staged factors can effect its life cycle directly. Distribution often becomes an Achilles heel. When a need is created, information is distributed and an action or result is expected and it's up to the recruiting practitioner and talent acquisition technologies to make it happen.

Vice President of Sales for Advanced Water Solutions, Clarence Nevels, states his views on the importance of optimization, "When employees and managers work together to optimize, commit and leverage their resources to improve the company's ability to operate and generate earnings it leaves a window of opportunity for new technology and solution providers to step up to the plate and offer relevant products and services to help that company save money and build an efficient infrastructure."

Researching and studying critical stages in a company's business processes is important. Doing something about is easier said than done. However, using optimization technologies to help in today's competitive and uncertain economic climate is a challenge but worthy of considerable review by management at multiple levels and diversified business partners. Select programs and applications that provide the tools that executives and practitioners need to lead their company successfully in the economy.

Online information supplemented with valuable and up-to-the minute information that address corporate strategies, revealing new ways to make businesses more agile, efficient, and competitive. The more groups facilitate the stages and levels within the process the better hiring companies can expect to experience.