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Your Local Hiring Market is Going to Disappear! Bradley Clark of RecTxt

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Local hiring market is now gone!  Guess what! Today, your best people will be hired outside your geographical location.

Our guest today: Bradley Clark, Co-Founder & Product Strategy of RecTxt

Bradley Clark, who is both a recruitment leader and an actual entrepreneur himself. He’s the Co-Founder of Rectxt, a text recruiting platform, and after a long consulting career working with organizations like Samsung R&D, Boeing Labs, Plenty of Fish, Best Buy, he’s now leading recruitment at Article. 

Being on both the front line and talking to a number of companies and recruiters, with COVID and Work from anywhere -  he’s seeing this rapidly emerging trend of where top local talent is getting scooped up from outside the market. 

Today we are discussing:

  • Why your local talent pool will continue to dry up
  • How to counter this trend and give your company a competitive edge

    • Challenge today?

    • Candidate experience is consumer behavior. People do have a lot of buying power right now. With remote, you are able to buy anywhere right now.
    • Hiring local talent is now more competitive. Remote work will decimate your local hiring market. Already seeing it happen. Organizations say - work anywhere! Precedence to work anywhere led by tech giants.

      • Why is this important to the company?

      • The best people in your local area, are going to be out of your market
        • Transactional market/process will out bid you!
        • Disrupt smaller markets
        • Local discount is over

          • Rick’s Nuggets

          • Work from home has opened the flood gates

            • Adjust your mindset and start adjusting your processes:

            • Focus on growing your own talent
              • Finding ways to build your own people
              • Making them committed to you
              • Rewards & recognition (your cool office, and office based perks are no longer valuable, mental health is important)
              • Focus on Keeping them
                • Engagement 
                • What the work looks like and the meaning of that work
                • Flexibility & shift to output based
                • Interview process as a promoter rather than a bouncer
                  • Mindshift change
                  • Rather than no… who do I say yes to?
                  • Speed & decisiveness
                  • Pre-interview process
                    • Understanding what the problem really is that they are trying to solve.
                    • What skills are needed to solve that problem
                    • Define what the person is really needed to do
                    • You need to be able to identify the “what and why”
                    • Interview process
                      • Focus on the “how & when”
                      • Selling the problem, how it is good for them
                      • Identify people that want to be a Big fish in a small pond
                      • Be decisive
                      • Communication
                        • Improve both the Speed of communication and keeping an open channel of communication. Get off email, this is why we created Rectxt. 

                          • Rick’s Nuggets

                          • Whats in it for me (not you) needs to be all you are con

                            • Key Takeaways:

                            • Understand they’re no longer competing locally for top talent, so they’ll have to change to compete (business can’t be the same as always)
                            • Interview well with knowing what you want, then be decisive 
                            • if/ when possible grow your own talent, then do everything you can to keep them

                              • Guest Contact:

                              LinkedIn: Bradley Clark

                              Website: RecTxt

                               

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