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Korn Ferry Opens Chinese Research Facility

HOUSTON, TX - Futurestep, a Korn/Ferry Company (NYSE: KFY), today announced the opening of its newest research center in Shanghai, China. For Futurestep's global and Asia Pacific RPO clients, the center will provide crucial services, including research, name generation, sourcing and screening, market mapping, competitive intelligence, and in-time outsourced recruitment administration.

The opening will provide an important resource for addressing the tremendous growth in demand in China and across Asia for Futurestep's Strategic RPO services, as well as its complete portfolio of Talent Acquisition solutions. While Futurestep has talent acquisition research and support resources around the world, the opening of the Shanghai facility also represents a new branding approach for the company's research centers.

"The global research center concept is a key part of our strategy for competing in the global RPO market," said Futurestep CEO Robert McNabb. "By providing strategic sourcing support, it enables our RPO teams to expand their level of service to meet market demands. It is a cost-effective solution that provides a broader reach into passive and active candidate pools, resulting in improved quality and client satisfaction."

The Shanghai Global Research Center represents Futurestep's commitment to growing its presence as a truly global provider of Strategic RPO services. In addition to its current lineup of global locations and support resources on four continents, Futurestep plans to expand its reach with multiple new global research centers opening in key markets over the next two years.

Job Posting: Recruiting Researcher

Executive Recruiting Researcher

This role will help conduct in-depth searches to find the best and brightest candidate the industry has to offer.  Accordingly, this position is responsible for the requisition-oriented research function for the Executive Recruiting team.

As an Executive Researcher this role will build and maintain a competitive intelligence database, qualifying and extracting information from multiple data sources (corporate/in house databases, web research, trade shows, diversity organizations, professional associations, etc) to provide crisp candidate target lists for focused req-based recruitment.   This role will also maintain general industry, candidate and company databases, library information, and develop highly efficient methodologies of extracting and automating access to information.

Similarly, it will manage outside research vendors and budgets,  and make 'build/buy' decisions about what should be performed in-house vs. outside, and managing those projects to completion.  Critical thinking skills will be used to work with the other members of the Executive Recruiting team to create effective and targeted candidate sourcing strategies.

It is important to be extremely web-savvy with significant web research techniques in addition to seasoned phone research skills.  To find many of these candidates, one must have the ability to think outside of the box.  This role will be responsible for producing new search methodologies, analyzing their value to recruiting efforts, and making recommendations as to whether or not the company would benefit from investing in them for the future.                   

Qualified candidates will have strong experience in sourcing techniques.   They must also have strong presentation skills and the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to an executive-level audience.  This is vital to the success of the team as well as the long-term success of the company's recruiting department.

Candidates must possess strong analytical skills, the ability to make quick decisions, an extreme attention to detail and a relentless desire to seek out the best candidates.  At least six years of recruiting/research experience, including more than three years of Internet recruiting is required for consideration; experience at the executive level and at an Executive Search firm is highly preferred. 

Candidates must be proficient in applicant tracking systems (web-based or database) and multiple office technology tools (e.g. Excel, Access, etc) A strong working knowledge of HTML, and a BS/BA is preferred.

For more information, please contact us by email.

Recruitment Research Tip

ATLANTA, GA - Lifehack's year-end racap today features a fine post called "10 Steps to Better Research."  Among the recruitment research tips I like are ...

Carry an idea book.  As you start really getting into your research project, your mind will start churning through what you’re reading, even when you’re not consciously working on it.  If you’re like me, you’ll be struck by sudden revelations at the least convenient times — in the bathroom, in the shower, at the supermarket, or while getting ready for bed.

Keep a small notebook and a pen with you everywhere (well, maybe not in the shower — although I do keep dry erase markers by the sink so I can write down quick thoughts on the bathroom mirror when I get out of the shower); jot down notes whenever an idea crosses your mind, and transfer these notes into your research log (or software, or whatever) as soon as you can.

This is a great idea for recruitment researchers.  See the entire post right here.

Sourcing Tool: Firefox Cheatsheet

Internet sourcing is a ton of work, and I hasten to add that sourcing can be very tedious (which is why many companies outsource it to firms like ours).  But if you can increase your browsing efficiency, then several things can happen:

• The quality of your candidates increases.
• The consistency of your results increases.
• You don't get as burned out in your job as recruiting researcher.

With that in mind, check out Leslie Frank's Firefox Cheatsheet.  It's an incredibly handy sourcing tool for recruiting researchers and names sourcers of all stripes.

Recruiting Research

My name is Harry Joiner, and this is my new blog, Recruiting Research.  In fact, Recruiting Research won't be just another blog about internet sourcing, resume screening, and candidate profiling.  It will be a blog that underpins my new business, called (are you ready for this?):

RecruitingResearch.com

We'll have three basic services (and three other blogs):

1. InternetSourcing.com,
2. ResumeScreening.com, and
3. CandidateProfiling.com

And we'll be significantly less expensive for our clients than their regular executive search options.

Even the websphere's brightest minds cannot say for sure where the field of recruiting research and internet sourcing will be in ten years.  But one thing's for sure:  I will be there, and I'll be chronicling the ride all the way.