Stop Being An Order Taker! (Part 2 of a 5-part Series on Upping the Ante on Talent Acquisition)

This is the second article in a series (here’s part 1) on how to redefine recruitment. The author, a veteran recruiting leader within several global consulting firms, contends that the recruitment function at many organizations has become so specialized that recruiters have lost their all-important close connection to the business, which hurts their ability to create relationships both with internal customers (including hiring managers and the C-suite) as well as with external candidates they seek to hire. Below, he elaborates on the first of four recommendations on how to redefine recruitment by shedding an “order-taker” mentality.