Specialist Recruiting

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Given our broad network among HR Managers as well as consultants, aCE talentNET provides a highly targeted recruitment service – finding permanent HR Managers and Trainers for clients.

A feature of the service is that we collaborate with other recruitment firms when appropriate. E.g. They may get the assignment due to a preferred supplier clause, but may ask us to assist them with a search.

Two Trends in HR Recruitment:

1. Building Internal Capability
While outsourcing training is the main trend, there is a significant counter trend in that some organisations are rebuilding an internal capacity to deliver training and facilitation services. i.e. Not only managing suppliers, contributing providing their own facilitation expertise.

2. Consultants Coming Back
A second trend is that many consultants, after about 7 or 8 years as sole operators, are rejoining bigger organisations. They are doing this largely because they seek to be in a team again. They want fellow professionals to bounce ideas off, to share successes and challenges with. Many really do not like the compliance side of running a business – BAS, GST etc., and some do not like having to spend so much time finding new business. (One of the reasons why the brokering business model suits them so well.)

They can be most valuable assets because they have the hands on skills that many organisations have lost. E.g. Instructional design, facilitation, change management. They generally have more of a business focus because they have had to run one themselves. They also have a broader perspective because they have worked in a wide range of work cultures and seen a number of different work practices. They tend to be outcome focused and not politically focussed. The later is of course a two edged sword – they can become casualties of organisational politics. The other downside to manage is that they feel empowered and this can come across as being full of themselves. An issue that they have to manage is that in a large organisation things take time and protocols are important – one gets forgiven for being impatient and breaking these if you are a consultant, not if you are an employee.

There is much to learn from having both large company and external consulting experience.