Bristol, 13^th May 2008                                                                  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WAR FOR TALENT WORSENS
GET OUT OF RECRUITMENT CHAOS

The labour market is tightening to its highest point in six years, with staff turnover expected to increase as more than eight in ten organisations (82 percent) anticipate trouble ahead in finding quality people to fill vacancies, according to recent findings from the Recruitment Confidence Index (RCI), produced by Cranfield School of Management.

The areas of most difficulty have consistently been engineering and computing although Architectural Select’s own findings place Architectural staffing also in a difficult area. Organisations have been recruiting more and more, but fewer high quality people have been coming into the workforce, resulting in rising recruitment difficulties for employers.

Karl McClelland, director of Architectural Select, places part of the blame on employers. He says "All too often we, and our clients, are losing extremely valuable resources because of a ‘no-decision policy'. A lot of the time this is down to bottlenecks and internal processes involved within a company.”

“Finding talent is extremely high on the Top 10 CEO Concerns (see chart) and ‘people’ is now the most pressing concern for CIOs. Businesses no longer have days and weeks to make a decision about potential employees. They will often lose valuable candidates within hours or even minutes to a competitor. We see it every week."

“Many clients are finding themselves in ‘Recruitment Chaos’ and have lost vital control of the information. Many are receiving hundreds of CVs and speculative applications each quarter from a huge range of sources – most of which are completely unsuitable and this is taking up valuable time and resources to manage. Many have set up Preferred Supplier Lists (PSLs) as a way to manage the sheer amount of CVs from agencies but we are advising our clients not to go down this route or to move away from PSLs.”

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“Employers must look into new methods of managing their recruitment needs. Architectural Select is working with a number of business partners with expertise in areas such as sales, marketing, business development, branding, employee referral programmes, advertising and web design and recruitment microsites to act as a recruitment firewall and to measure and manage the information, CVs and applicants and to attract, develop and retain talent for clients while also removing the chaos.”

“Practices should focus on their core business; designing solutions, buildings and keeping their existing customers happy and in finding new ones, not spending unnecessary time and money on recruitment chaos.”

“Organisations need to take a look at their employer brand and differentiate themselves from their competitors. They need to take a structured approach to development and retention, enabling them to "grow their own talent" and have an edge in this tight labour market.”

The recent RCI report published by Cranfield School of Management found less than half of UK businesses implement talent development programmes. While 60 per cent of the businesses surveyed said talent management - the strategies and practices needed to define, identify, develop, attract and retain those deemed to have skills valuable to an organisation - is essential to a business's bottom line.

About Architectural Select

Architectural Select may be relatively new on the scene but the partners of the company have successfully been providing management consultancy, business coaching, mentoring, career transition and business development services to a large number of organisations and individuals across the UK and Europe for many years.

We have taken advantage of years of experience gained within management, human resources, local government, sales and marketing, public relations and years of contacts and now specialise in resourcing and recruitment for the Architectural and Construction industry.

Using this experience, continuous improvement and our growing suite of best practices together with innovative choice of tools and software, we are able to significantly improve many business processes and procedures as well as reduce important costs - an offer which many of our competitors are unable to match.

Architectural Select together with chosen partners can manage the entire talent function within your company — a single-source solution for recruitment administration and management — freeing you to focus on your core business, with the peace of mind that support functions are running smoothly and efficiently. 

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If you would like further information about this topic, please contact Karl McClelland on

+44 (0)208 144 3330 or +44 (0)1761 410 704 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

architecturalselect.com

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Bristol, 13^th May 2008                                                                  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WAR FOR TALENT WORSENS
GET OUT OF RECRUITMENT CHAOS

The labour market is tightening to its highest point in six years, with staff turnover expected to increase as more than eight in ten organisations (82 percent) anticipate trouble ahead in finding quality people to fill vacancies, according to recent findings from the Recruitment Confidence Index (RCI), produced by Cranfield School of Management.

The areas of most difficulty have consistently been engineering and computing although Architectural Select’s own findings place Architectural staffing also in a difficult area. Organisations have been recruiting more and more, but fewer high quality people have been coming into the workforce, resulting in rising recruitment difficulties for employers.

Karl McClelland, director of Architectural Select, places part of the blame on employers. He says "All too often we, and our clients, are losing extremely valuable resources because of a ‘no-decision policy'. A lot of the time this is down to bottlenecks and internal processes involved within a company.”

“Finding talent is extremely high on the Top 10 CEO Concerns (see chart) and ‘people’ is now the most pressing concern for CIOs. Businesses no longer have days and weeks to make a decision about potential employees. They will often lose valuable candidates within hours or even minutes to a competitor. We see it every week."

“Many clients are finding themselves in ‘Recruitment Chaos’ and have lost vital control of the information. Many are receiving hundreds of CVs and speculative applications each quarter from a huge range of sources – most of which are completely unsuitable and this is taking up valuable time and resources to manage. Many have set up Preferred Supplier Lists (PSLs) as a way to manage the sheer amount of CVs from agencies but we are advising our clients not to go down this route or to move away from PSLs.”

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“Employers must look into new methods of managing their recruitment needs. Architectural Select is working with a number of business partners with expertise in areas such as sales, marketing, business development, branding, employee referral programmes, advertising and web design and recruitment microsites to act as a recruitment firewall and to measure and manage the information, CVs and applicants and to attract, develop and retain talent for clients while also removing the chaos.”

“Practices should focus on their core business; designing solutions, buildings and keeping their existing customers happy and in finding new ones, not spending unnecessary time and money on recruitment chaos.”

“Organisations need to take a look at their employer brand and differentiate themselves from their competitors. They need to take a structured approach to development and retention, enabling them to "grow their own talent" and have an edge in this tight labour market.”

The recent RCI report published by Cranfield School of Management found less than half of UK businesses implement talent development programmes. While 60 per cent of the businesses surveyed said talent management - the strategies and practices needed to define, identify, develop, attract and retain those deemed to have skills valuable to an organisation - is essential to a business's bottom line.

About Architectural Select

Architectural Select may be relatively new on the scene but the partners of the company have successfully been providing management consultancy, business coaching, mentoring, career transition and business development services to a large number of organisations and individuals across the UK and Europe for many years.

We have taken advantage of years of experience gained within management, human resources, local government, sales and marketing, public relations and years of contacts and now specialise in resourcing and recruitment for the Architectural and Construction industry.

Using this experience, continuous improvement and our growing suite of best practices together with innovative choice of tools and software, we are able to significantly improve many business processes and procedures as well as reduce important costs - an offer which many of our competitors are unable to match.

Architectural Select together with chosen partners can manage the entire talent function within your company — a single-source solution for recruitment administration and management — freeing you to focus on your core business, with the peace of mind that support functions are running smoothly and efficiently. 

###

If you would like further information about this topic, please contact Karl McClelland on

+44 (0)208 144 3330 or +44 (0)1761 410 704 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

architecturalselect.com

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