Comment by Kirby Cole on August 10, 2011 at 3:05pm

Is corporate recruiting an open door or the guardian of the door?

Comment by Valentino Martinez on August 11, 2011 at 3:20am

At ACME Inc. the "open door" policy applies to the lobby area only.  Anyone caught in a restricted area without the proper Corporate ID Badge will be shot on-sight.  After 6:00pm this "open door" policy applies to employee family members as well.  Have a nice day.

(Just a little humor about the façade of an “open door” with certain employers)

 

Corporate Recruiting has the task of opening the front-door just enough for qualified applicants to enter through for employment consideration.  The company ATS operates in the same way.  Both front-door and ATS prefer qualified, and in some cases, working candidates only.  In this sense Corporate Recruiting acts as a gatekeeper in resisting undesirables.  Getting past the front-door positions all candidates to then go through a selection process designed to pick the best fitting, most affordable and available candidate who accepts a job offer.  If the newly hired candidate can pass the background check and drug test their start date is set—and they come in the front open door.

Unfortunately, most employers also have a “back-door” that literally avoids the front-door as a way to gain entrance to an employer.  It’s worth mentioning because, while it is never mentioned in a company brochure, it does exist.  And it does give HR and Corporate Recruiting headaches because ‘back-door” hires circumvent the front-door and sometimes even the selection process.  An effective HR and Recruitment Group partnership can usually sniff-out and shut-down back-door hires, but sometimes they’re simply over-ruled.

So, Kirby—Corporate Recruiting tries to focus on process, tracking systems (ATS) and quality results.  To that end they open the front-door, as a courtesy to some, and as a hiring access point for others.  And they do guard that open front door 24/7, 364 because there may be the occasion of an EEOC/OFCCP audit or legal challenge.  Therefore, guarding that open front-door makes good business sense.

Oh, an now that one gets through the Open front-door...then there is the Glass Ceiling to contend with, but that's for another discussion.

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