• Main
• Blog
• Job Resume!

Home » HRM and Recession » Recession and Recruitment » Change of the job vacancies in the recession

Change of the job vacancies in the recession

The recession is about the focus on the strategic initiatives of the organization to make the income of the organization stable and growing in the future. The organization usually does not stop the whole recruitment (see Recruitment Freeze), but some new job openings can appear. The organization needs some additional skills.

The organization should ask the HRM Function to make a quick SWOT Analysis of the employees in the organization to have a clear view about the gaps in the skills and competencies. The organization has to fill the gaps with the new employees from the job market, who are creative, smart and ready to work hard to save the organization.

The HRM Function has to ask the top management for the approach through the crisis and it can decide then about the skills needed for the successful fight with the recession. A very small team usually designs the proposal for the solution and the skills can be easily recognized. The team is mixed from the existing employees and new hires and the HRM Function should recommend both.

The recruitment team has to be ready to find a completely different set of skills and competencies. The recession changes the focus of the organization and the new employees can help to secure the organization in the time of the recession.