7 Dimensions Of Culture: An Analysis Of Approach People Recruitment SA

If we focus on the 7 Dimensions of Culture from Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner, individualism and collectivism are interesting at Approach People Recruitment SA. At first sight, we might think that collectivism is the goal of Approach People Recruitment SA, because there are team rewards, strong value for the group, a great team environment leading to Approach People Recruitment SA’s benefits. However, in reality, managers tend to encourage own responsibilities and benefits, creating positive competition between recruiters, which is quite individualistic.
Another interesting aspect is the neutral approach of Approach People Recruitment SA’s environment: employees do not show any emotion and separate work from their personal life. They have
It means that companies tend to focus on a client-orientation which leads them to more matrix structures and more collaboration with different sectors. CSP Formation distinguishes four transversal styles and among them transversality organized around a recurrent function like human resources (Alexandre Reymann, Les cahiers du DRH N° 196, 12/04/2013). We may apply this approach to Approach People Recruitment SA, which tends to organize its structure around recruitment. All employees have their own specificities and they are trained by the company to become super-recruiters.
Transversality is expanding, leading to more skills and more competition. Companies like Approach People Recruitment SA, as modern as they are, also need to adapt to new trends on the market.

3.1.1. New trends: the growing prominence of employer branding, networks and IT

The last LinkedIn study concerning global recruiting trends for 2016 shows that more and more companies are working on their employer brand’s expansion, which represents a rise of 59% in one year. Recruiters will therefore need to focus on this point during the interviews and the coaching, so that their candidates are one step ahead. Diagram 17: Main Hiring Trends for 2016
Source: https://business.linkedin.com,
Recruiters should keep on improving their communication, marketing and sales skills in order to be prepared to face the new trends.

3.1.2. Translation techniques adapted to recruitment

As we already saw in the previous parts, finding the right keywords for recruiting is vital, especially for Boolean searches. Translators use technical glossaries when they work on a specific domain. It could be very useful applied to recruitment, first to understand some specific technical words and then to use synonyms in Boolean searches, in order to increase the chances to find more candidates.
I spoke about this aspect with my manager Eddy Guinet, who told me that it could be very interesting for sectors with complicated technical vocabulary like life sciences or engineering. Then, he realized than one of our employees with a translation background was really good at Boolean searches, which might be due to his previous skills in this field. I asked this International Recruitment Consultant his opinion about translation techniques and glossaries applied to recruitment, and he indeed constantly uses them to open his scope of relevant