Do Corporate Recruiters truly “know the job” they are recruiting for?
While preparing for a presentation on this subject, I decided to post this question and get a feel for the “temperature” on this topic, but mostly to confirm my belief that us corporate Recruiters have a bad reputation when it comes to “knowing the job”. I feel any Recruiter can fill a job with limited information (typical job description), but only a Recruiter who has “engaged” a hiring manager (easier said than done), and put together a process to understand what the new hire will need to accomplish for the next 6 months to a year, will be in a position to become a true Recruiting Business Partner. Understanding the accomplishments means to get good sense of the circumstances surrounding these expected accomplishments such as the environment, resources, challenges, timeline, and how this accomplishment will be measured. (Job descriptions rarely provide this, and understandably so, as these documents are not meant to describe the job, but rather develop a guide for which the compensat
