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If you
have absorbed most of the information in this
program, it won't come as a surprise to you that the
biggest challenge recruiters have with hiring
organizations is they are "spiritual beings acting
human." Just because the organizations might need to
hire a professional on any level doesn't mean that
they're going to do it all the time, or that they
will change their minds about the kind of person
that they need a number of times in the process of a
search, or corporate politics, unrealistic
expectations of what the candidate market will
provide, mergers and acquisitions, buyouts,
unexpected changes in the business climate, stock
prices, product failures and so on. Non-human events
like 9/11and Hurricane Katrina can postpone or shut
down the best of intentions to hire someone.
Like
most professions, ours is one that is full of
uncertainty. We deal with human beings on both sides
of the equation. We're one of the few professions
whose "product" can say " no " and walk away and
whose " client " is just as unpredictable.
These
two primary challenges are what make our profession
so exciting and gratifying. The service of a
recruiter can change the lives of the individuals
they are involved with as well as the course of
their companies. But the downside of this kind of
gratification has lots of emotional and business
risk.
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