Recently, we have been commenting on how organizations large and small have all but eliminated their staffing and recruiting functions in the wake of the ongoing recession.  Furthermore, we have remarked about how short-sighted it can be to throw out the proverbial baby with the bathwater.

Fact of the matter is that there will soon be a point when companies will need to stop showing their employees the door and begin to acquire fresh talent.  The questions are "Where will they come from?"  "Who will screen, recruit, and select?"  "How will they be on-boarded and acclimated so that they will stay for a while?"

Right now, we hear a lot of companies complaining about an overload of candidate resumes sitting in their InBoxes and Talent Management Systems, but no one is managing the flow because they have laid-off most or all of the recruiting staff with the exception of inexperienced administrators simply because there are not enough openings at the moment.  The talented candidates will soon go elsewhere and the unqualified ones will continue to take up space for you, your staff, and perhaps your attorneys.

Can't complain about the rain if you threw your umbrella into the trash!

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- Lou G.