Human Resources and Recruiting are some of the most self-absorbed, tone-deaf groups you will find in any corporation.

This person received an award for personal development in Talent Acquisition. Not filling positions, not bringing in candidate.

Ever see “Talent Acquisition” awarded for filling X # or Percent of open positions in a month/quarter/year? Ever see Talent Acquisition proactively looking for candidates for an internal position or group build-out? Not to mention the big lie of ATS’es ever known anyone to get a call when their resume/application matches a new job opening? Yeah, me neither. What do they do with all that data? Why collect it? But I digress…

Candidates are reporting that Talent Acquisition/Recruiters often don’t a) return calls, b) return linked in messages and c) don’t reply to email inquiries for positions that the candidate would fit in well at.

A little less self-congratulation and a little more effort and they will find that there really isnt a shortage of cyber-security professionals. Anyways, what’s your experience been like with internal Talent Acquisition and recruiters?