Wentworth On Recruiting: Quantitatively Speaking, Why Should Recruiters Make a Significant Positive Difference?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Quantitatively Speaking, Why Should Recruiters Make a Significant Positive Difference?

Does it not seem obvious that recruiters should make a significant positive difference? You would think so, but often they DO NOT. Our Satisfaction with Recruiting survey tells us that hiring managers say delivery by recruiters is 26% less than the importance hiring managers assign to it. A 26% shortfall!

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The Wentworth Company, Inc.

Wentworth offers a comprehensive and integrated set of talent-related services:

TalentMetric Recruiting Research

TalentMetric Recruiting

TalentMetric Executive Search

TalentMetric Workforce Planning

TalentMetric Rcruiting Process Consulting

Competitive Intelligence

Wentworth has several distinguishing characteristics:

We believe that knowing how is important, but working hard is more important, when it comes to finding candidates others do not find. We are routinely approached after employers and agencies alike have not been able to identify appropriate candidates...and then we find them, evaluate them and help our client hire them.

We believe that we owe our clients quantitative candidate assessments and quantitative selection decision support. Our data paint vivid pictures of the labor market, candidate pools and individual candidates.

We deliver significant quantitative hiring decision support to our clients, to help ensure that the person hired will be a long term, productive and positive employee.

We also deliver on-time, on- or under-budget recruiting. Typically, our total cost to our client is less than if they did it themselves and 1/2 to 1/3 of other recruiting vendors.

Please visit our website: www.wentco.com for more information.

The Author

John Wentworth has run one of the most progressive and durable recruiting operations in the country since 1984. He has been a headhunter since 1979 and in human resources since 1972 (Personnel Director, Carte Blanche; Compensation Supervisor, Mattel, Corporate Manager of Compensation and EEO, TOSCO).

Not content with just filling jobs, he has studied recruiting to learn how it can be done consistently successfully. He has inserted a significant dependence on quantitative methods both to manage the process and to evaluate candidates, candidate pools and the labor markets from which they are drawn.

The "Wentworth Way" is considered leading edge by many. No other Human Capital firm we know of applies quantitative methods as pervasively and productively as Wentworth does.

John lives with his long time companion, Debbie Sam (who is Wentworth's Administration Manager), in San Pedro, CA. He has a son and a daughter. He is a decorated combat veteran who served in Vietnam with the First Cavalry Division.

He has been on the boards of the Westside Center for Independent living, the Catalina Conservancy Divers and the San Pedro Hospital Foundation (president). He was one of the early volunteer SCUBA divers at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. He was a founding commissioner of the City of Los Angeles Taxicab Commission and the president of the Board of Harbor Commissioners for the Port of Los Angeles.

Most recently, he was the president of the InfraGard Los Angeles Members Alliance, a private sector-FBI partnership focusing on counter-terrorism information sharing. He currently serves on several committees of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, the parent organization.