Outsourcing versus off-shoring is confusing to a lot of people. We will look at the outsourcing definition as well as something else called out-tasking, which is probably a little bit more of an appropriate definition, and compare that to off-shoring. Certainly, it´s a different world.
Did you know that the average number of full-time unique jobs that a recruiter can support today - and do a good job of it - is between four and 18? Some recruiters have many more than 18 but you start to fall off pretty quickly in terms of contracting, getting back to everybody, and pre-interviewing everyone.
Incidentally, that was the same number of unique full-time jobs recruiters from the early 60s could support. So, the actual productivity using the Internet, email, and all these software products, etc., hasn´t materially changed or impacted the effectiveness per recruiter.
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