Recruiting as our calling

26 Jul 2019 · 1 min

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In this talk, the speaker explains how he crafted a "why we do this" vision document for his recruiting work, which is publicly available at recruitingconversations.com/vision. He outlines the document's multiple components, focusing on the core motivations behind their recruiting efforts: a love for people, empathy for the challenges faced by recruiting leaders, and the belief that great leaders can influence beyond their own organizations. Writing the vision clarified the team's purpose, elevating their work from a mere job or business to a calling driven by emotional conviction.

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And one of the things that I did was I sat down and I wrote a why we do this document. Now, if you want to, if you want to, if you want to get an idea of what that document looks like, you can actually go to recruitingconversations.com/vision and there will be a copy of our vision here. One of the reasons I want to share that with you is it'll give you an idea of what a vision document can look like. Now, for us, there's multiple pieces to this. One is why do we do do what we do. And that gave us, by writing that, that gave us ultimate clarity on taking that first step of actually creating the vision. So, you know, in that, you know, some of the things that we say is that we do this because we love people and people matter to us. We do this because we empathize with the recruiting leader's struggle. We do this because great leaders influence things outside the walls of their business leadership. So that why we do this document really moved us to a place emotionally where we had lots of clarity as to You know, this being more than a company, this being more than a job or a career, this was our calling.