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Compiled by :
Anand.
Mahesh.
Jisha.
Samsara.
Shalieni.
Vinitha.
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INTRODUCTION The term 'employee poaching' can be defined as an act of
enticing key employees to move from one firm to a
competitor.
It has emerged as the biggest HR challenge for
enterprises, both big and small, across all industry
verticals.
High Energy Employees:Prey for Poaching?
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Poaching talent is the practice
of proactively targeting and hiringtop talent away from a competitor
or top firm.
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INTENTION Securing skills or capabilities faster than if you were to
attempt to develop talent internally through training anddevelopment efforts
Securing expanded capacity (i.e. more bodies) that willrequire less ramp up time
Mitigating high-level talent losses due to attrition
Damaging your competitors' ability to achieve theirstrategic objectives
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Poaching activities largely fall
into one of three categories
1. Direct sourcing: Firms use new data-mining techniques
and tools, combined with age-old recruiter phone
techniques, to mine the organizational structure, employee
identities, and employee performance indicators of talent
and product competitors. This competitive intelligence is
later used to determine who specifically should be targeted
for poaching. All work is carried out internally.
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2.THIRD-PARTY POACHINGThis strategy relies on using a vendor or series of vendors to
identify everything from which firms to target to what
individuals to go after based on your strategic objectives.
(It is also by far the most common way organizations that
find poaching unethical actually practice it themselves. In
their minds, poaching is perceived as unethical only if you
do it yourself.)
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3.ATTRACT THEM WITH "HONEY"This approach utilizes six different channels to drive candidates
to your organization from other specific organizations, much like product
firms steer you to their products in grocery stores. The "honey" strategy is
powered by a number of channels that drive candidates into yourrecruiting process.
Employment branding
Employee referrals
Event recruiting
Magnet hiring
Boomerang hiring
Internet
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The Employment Branding ChannelMany firms that have made an attempt to
manage their employer brand do so with no
particular goals other than to develop either
"Best Place to Work" or "Employer of
Choice" status (note that both of those
terms are registered trademarks!).
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Employer Branding Relies On : External recognition as a leader in providing specific employerattributes, such as a value on diversity, innovation, or talentdevelopment
Consistent messaging that continuously communicates who and
what the firm is and what value it provides to prospectiveemployees
A story inventory that provides specific examples of howmanagement programs and practices deliver value to employees
A specific and differentiated theme (slogan) that competitors cannoteasily mimic or assert
Recognition for functional excellence
Lots of lots of press coverage in very specific publications that
reach into the targeted audience
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The Employee Referral ChannelJust as most firms approach employment branding with no
specific goal or outcome in mind, they often develop
employee referral programs that meander and produce
mediocre results at best.
A targeted employee referral program, on the other hand,
utilizes the employee population to do all of the competitive
intelligence mining that enables targeted poaching, with an
added benefit: It gets employees to utilize their personal
networks to initiate the recruiting process.
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Employee Referral Channel Relies
On: Active referrals: An approach that goes to employees with a specific set of
questions that prime them to remember who they know in specific roles,organizations, etc.
Top performer referral prioritization: An approach that acts on all referralscoming in from proven top performers before acting on those from otheremployees
Reference referrals: An approach that contacts references of past hires thatproved to be top performers and asks who else they know
Stakeholder referrals: An approach that leverages non employees who have avested interest in the success of the company to generate referrals, such asconsultants, suppliers, stock holders, etc.
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The Events ChannelNearly every organization that recruits will attend at leastone event a year, be it a recruiting event, an industry trade show, ora vendor exposition. But few select events to participate in basedon their probability of attracting employees from specific
competitors. Utilizing events as a poaching channel relies on:
Identifying and participating in specific industry trade showsor association events that have a proven attraction to employeesof targeted competitors
Hosting onsite seminars and certification courses that areattractive to the competition
Participating in non-industry/non-professional events thatattract a target audience, such as a beer and wine or artsfestival.
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The Magnet Hire ChannelThe magnet hire channel is quite possibly the easiest one to
understand. It simply relies on polling top performers to
identify the most respected or most visible professional who
they would be interested in working with, and then working
to hire that person in hopes that they would attract others to
your organization.
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The Boomerang ChannelAt some point in time, nearly every employee decides
to make a change and severs an employment relationship.
The boomerang channel is used in poaching by
identifying former employees that are currently employed
by a competitor and developing specific strategies to lure
them back which brings the added benefit of lots of
competitive intelligence about organizational structure and
management practices, but not trade secrets or product
information.
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The Internet Channel The final major channel that is used to power the "honey"
approach to poaching is the Internet channel. Unlike job
posting and data mining, these approaches use the Internet
to develop resources that employees of competing
organizations are drawn to.
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POACHING PREVENTION
STRATEGYReward managers for keeping good people and if possible
reward entire teams.
Train managers that employees leave when they' re notrewarded, thanked or given opportunities to learn.
Keep tabs on people who
have a pattern of leaving.
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Know who is at risk and work to keep them
Figure out who the targets are
Block online poachingBlock phone poaching
Protect trade secrets
Reward retention
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PROTECTING YOUR BUSINESS Using your confidential information (e.g. client
contact lists/databases).
Providing services to your customers or clients,irrespective of whether the former employee initiatedthe approach.
Working for a competing business.
Recruiting former-colleagues
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IMPACT ON BUSINESSIt slows down your business.Lose the smartest and most experienced people in
organization.
It adds to the salary burden of the company.
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ETHICS The ethics of lateral hiring Vanderbilt a professor
who specializes in strategic management suggest thatthe practice ofpoaching other companies employeesshould be an accepted or encouraged from of businesscompetition.
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Although not specific to the IT industry therehave been some landmark judgement on the issue of
employee poaching. Here are a few of them:
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Pepsi was refused injunction to restrain its
employees from joining Coke. The rights of an employee
arising out of an employment contract have beenelaborately detailed in the judgment.
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Non-solicitation agreement in vendor/ agencyrelationships were held valid and enforceable. It was
held that employees of either company could not be'poached' by the other company for a specified period
of time.
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