As markets tighten and candidates with hard skills grow harder and harder to find it will take global initiatives to make a local impact in recruiting. One of my favorite new companies leading the way in global recruitment is ForeignTalent.
ForeignTalent was set up to recruit talented Chinese university graduates and young professionals for jobs in Europe. They target candidates who have obtained a Masters or PhD in science. This hits a sweet spot for European companies that are having more and more trouble filling this type of position. This is a trend that is sure to continue, cross-border recruitment is in its early stages of development but it is here to stay.
Global talent solutions will have to be put into practice in order to sustain growth at some of the largest global players and this will call for recruiting partners who target a countries top talent in order to send them to positions half-way around the world. That is bold thinking, the kind that is usually met with great initial resistance and, ultimately, imitated when it is successful.
"ForeignTalent was founded in 2007 to become the first company in The Netherlands entirely focused on foreign talent and knowledge migration. Gregor van Essen is the founder and director of ForeignTalent. During the past ten years, Gregor developed new markets and established organizations for various companies in Europe, Asia and The United States." - check it out!
I like big, bold, solutions to problems and this is one of the most elegant solutions I have seen in years. You saw it here first!
(Brian Fenerty is the General Manager of AdMark China, he has experience recruiting in candidate-short markets in Asia, North, and South America. Brian can be reached at briansfenerty@hotmail.com For more insights specific to recruiting techniques in China please visit his ERE blog at: http://www.ere.net/blogs/Recruiting%5FTechniques/ - or visit Brian on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianfenerty )
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