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Do your organization's human resources personnel and hiring managers regularly collaborate to exchange knowledge and spark creative thinking about recruiting high-value employees? Does your organization confer with other organizations about best recruitment practices? To maximize your organization's ability to acquire and cultivate a high-performing workforce, you must build and maintain strong alliances.

The shrinking labor pool and fierce competition for the best talent require proactive recruiting methods. Part of your organization's recruiting strategy can be networking regularly with peers, professional occupational groups, and management and human resources colleagues. Community, civic and diversity groups are excellent places to communicate your organization's accomplishments and Employee Value Proposition (EVP). Participating in online exchanges for recruiters, alumni associations and relationship sites can extend your recruiting reach into the ranks of passive candidates who, by definition, are not actively looking for work but who might respond to a message that speaks to their passion, career interests or desire to be challenged. Communicating with your high - performing employees can encourage them to recruit other high performers. Ongoing and effective networking enhances your organization's ability to overcome recruiting challenges.

Further information about building alliances follows. These links will help you connect with recruiters at other agencies and universities, associates from professional organizations, and counselors at university career planning and placement centers.