{"id":7613,"date":"2018-03-26T17:50:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/peers-crowdsourced-the-ultimate-solution-to-recruitment-and-training\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:50:39","slug":"peers-crowdsourced-the-ultimate-solution-to-recruitment-and-training","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/peers-crowdsourced-the-ultimate-solution-to-recruitment-and-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Peers Crowdsourced: The ultimate solution to recruitment and training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A successful crowdsourcing effort requires the active participation of a set of people who will together create value that will otherwise not be created. As we spend most of our days with our classmates, colleagues, clients, professors, etc., they all accumulate invaluable information about us \u2013 whether it is useful feedback information for our own progress or evaluation information that can benefit an employer or any institution that we decide to join\/create. Leveraging this inside information into a database together forms a very powerful tool of information that creates invaluable value.<\/p>\n<p>Crowdsourcing talent currently exists in another form, whereby platforms bring together a set of recruiters that will each recommend the best-fit talent and the employer will get a pool of say 10 talent recommenders by different recruiters; please see Reflik and Visage<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>. Contests to reward peer-recommendation is also another way that employers are using crowds to find the right candidate; please see The Job Stack<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>. However, what those recruiters don\u2019t have is inside a good 360 inside information into the talent. Why would this crowdsourced data be important?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, it reduces the risk for both the new employer and the candidate to ensure that there is a right fit in terms of expectations, culture, team, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, the employee could use the crowd-sourced data to track his or her progress \u2013 as he\/she aims to improve. If the employee elects to share this data with his\/her current employer, the employer could also help with the adequate training and progress tracking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The value creation thus happens at both the personal level and at the organizational level. However, how does one capture value?<\/p>\n<p>Employers\u2013 as clients to the platform \u2013 would pay to access data (with permission of the candidate) that will help them dis-intermediate recruiters. A successful candidate \u2013 as he or she becomes an employee \u2013 could then elect to share the progress\/training data with the employers, as they work together for personalized training. For more advanced information and analysis, the employees could also opt-in to pay a subscription fee for access and for data collection i.e. crowd participation. If the employee elects to have this fee fully waived or partly waived, he or she could participate in turn by earning credit as he\/she provides information about their peers, colleagues, classmates on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd participation will thus happen partly by the incentive of reciprocation. Nonetheless, for those that participate more, gamification and further rewards could be used to incentivizing them. They could thus capture some of the value create and earn cashable credit. I also believe that peer-pressure could also push participation as asking your colleague to provide information on the platform can sometimes be enough to have someone engage in it \u2013 especially if reciprocation could be at play.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the question as to why I believe this model is better than the current system? I strongly believe that pooling crowds around you to provide information creates value that otherwise would neither be created nor captured. All this information creates a better picture of the applicant\u2019s true personality, skills, strengths, weaknesses \u2013 allowing for better\/more accurate recruiting and training, whilst significantly reducing cost and risk. Opportunities for personal progress and organizational cohesion would be endless, and companies would be able to better build and manage culture. What I believe over the long-term we could achieve with such a platform is happier employees with a longer-term employment within an organization, and better managed organizations with lower churn.<\/p>\n<p>*Disclaimer: This idea has been thought of for this assignment and further thought, analysis and test need to be put in place for this model to be called superior to current solutions. As the question didn\u2019t ask for flaws\/risks, I am happy to cover that separately, answer any questions. I also would love to have your feedback &#8211; criticism and other ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reflik.com\/employers\">https:\/\/www.reflik.com\/employers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visage.jobs\/\">https:\/\/www.visage.jobs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thejobstack.com\/\">https:\/\/thejobstack.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you can crowdsource your peers&#8217; knowledge of you to help your recruitment process, the training that your employer provides to you and your personal progress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1763,"featured_media":7614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-7613","hck-submission","type-hck-submission","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"connected_submission_link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-digit\/assignment\/competing-with-or-against-crowds\/","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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