The staffing industry is just a bunch of wrist watches

Rarely is they're an industry that has wider perception and variations over the same functioning device as the watch industry.

Timex: This classic "value" brand is still the best selling watch in the US but the funny thing is most high end or "Swiss" watch wearers would not be caught dead in one. Kinda like hiring managers are when using internal recruiting staff.

Then you have Rolex, the perceived high end brand to most Americans. These watches are over priced (in my opinion) and serve really no additional added value that I know of. Not saying the work is not quality, but compare them to a real high end watch like a $4000000 Phillippe Patek and you understand the difference. However, Rolex's Ad is still in racing and sports, logos plastered everywhere. They play to the hype of the brand casting an ever so slight shadow over the normalcy of their actual results of their product. Sounds a lot like the over-priced and under-whelming RPO's out there.

Of course then you have the Rolex knock offs. Yep, the staffing space sure has those too... in maybe an even greater proportion.

The bottom line is like watches...all of staffing has one objective: to fill a companies open positions. Regardless if we doing it ticking or swaying.... Using a clunky replicable ATS or some hot cloud based solution, the objective is still the same.

So the question is, if you can buy a Timex at a fraction of the price of a Phillippe Petek or even a Rolex with each of the timepieces telling you (in theory) the exact same information, why spend so much?

Question of the day: What kind of watch do you own?

Jonah Manning
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