Bathroom Poaching (and I don’t mean eggs)
My friend Wendy Terwelp alerted me to a very interesting article about bathroom poaching, a term I’d never heard before, to describe stealing recruiting employees using very aggressive tactics, including advertising in the employee bathroom (see, you get the term now, bathroom poaching. I got it now too!)
The article makes mention of recruiters swarming Yahoo thanks to their possible takeover attempt from Microsoft, which could leave employees vulnerable if it were to consummate. What I found especially interesting is that NOT poaching is actually illegal, for employees aren’t owned by a company, they work as “at will” agents, free to go where they want to go, for whatever reason they want. High level execs who agree NOT to poach are actually acting in many ways illegally and could be seen as potentially keeping wages down.
But that’s not why I’m interested in this topic.
I’m curious…
What’s the most interesting way you’ve ever been approached about a position?
What’s the most interesting way you’ve ever tried to “poach” an associate? Ever talked to anyone about a job in the bathroom?
Admittedly, I’ve been asked my interest in a potential job opportunity while sharing best practices with someone at my employer.
And I have picked people up for HDI meetings with the specific intention of feeling them out and seeing if they were a fit for my team.
Nothing too crazy there, so I know you’ve GOT to have better stories than me. Feel free to change names to protect the guilty, er I mean, innocent.
One final thought from the author of the bathroom poaching article, Dr. John Sullivan, which I think is great whether you’re for or against poaching: “You see, it is extraordinary success that draws poachers, not weakness!”
Photo credit to dmansouri
Related Stories
POSTED IN: hiring
0 opinions for Bathroom Poaching (and I don’t mean eggs)
No one has left a comment yet. You know what this means, right? You could be first!
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: