{"id":1641,"date":"2010-09-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2010-06-25T07:15:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:15:34","slug":"oh-you%e2%80%99re-a-recruiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"Oh, You\u2019re a Recruiter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I often have a hard time describing what I do.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019m an HR technology guy, but I don’t implement anything.\u00a0 And telling non-HR people that there are a whole slew of HR technologies out there to serve a wide variety of business outcomes is strange to most of the population.\u00a0 When I tell people I’m an HR consultant, more often than not, people respond with, “Oh, you’re a recruiter then?”\u00a0 Not that I have anything against recruiters, but consultants in an organization play a different and\u00a0 important role.<\/p>\n

Often we think about things from a different vantage point simply because we we don’t have some of the current state baggage that incumbents have.\u00a0 Often, we are not constrained and therefore do a better job of thinking about projects with the end state in mind rather than the current state.\u00a0 I\u2019m often surprised by an incumbent\u2019s inability to redesign and think outside of the current state as they try to figure out the future state.\u00a0 Often, we can\u2019t redefine a portion of a process because some downstream application or proceed depends on it being done the way it is today.\u00a0 But the thinking does not work since perhaps if we asked around, those downstream systems would tell us how poor the current state process really is.\u00a0 Another example is when we upgrade reporting tools and recreate reports without doing an investigation of how many of the recipients are not even with the company anymore (yes, this has happened to me).<\/p>\n

Consultants tend to have a wider variety of experiences.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that we\u2019re any smarter, because I\u2019m quite convinced that most of my clients are pretty damn smart.\u00a0 However, when I\u2019ve helped clients create 5 technology roadmaps in the last 12 months or 3 business intelligence approaches in the last 9 months, I have a better awareness of where the market is going and what are new emerging practices.<\/p>\n

The last thing is that consulting is not about being smart, although good consultants are.\u00a0 Great consultants are about approach.\u00a0 The methodology consultants bring to help organizations think through a problem in a methodical way is what creates value.\u00a0 All the smarts and all the market knowledge in the world does not mean very much if your consultant can\u2019t look at your organization and approach your specific problem in a way that links them to their future.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m certainly not trying to sell myself, but it\u2019s just a thought that when I tell people I\u2019m in HR consulting, 80% of the time people assume I\u2019m a recruiter and the other 20% I get a blank stare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often have a hard time describing what I do.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019m an HR technology guy, but I don’t implement anything.\u00a0 And telling non-HR people that there are a whole slew of HR technologies out there to serve a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,47,8],"tags":[218,219,72],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consultancies","category-governance","category-strategies","tag-hr-consulting","tag-project-management","tag-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}