Two members of our leadership team, Beth Gilfeather and Paul Harty, just spent a week in Hungary providing recruitment training to a team of offshore recruiters from IBM.

We have a long-standing and successful partnership with IBM's business process outsourcing (BPO) group. Being asked to provide recruitment training in their Budapest Center of Excellence represents another strong step forward in our relationship.

Paul and Beth with IBM recruitment trainees in Budapest

Over the course of a week, Beth and Paul introduced the IBM team to the recruitment principles that make Seven Step's RPO approach so effective. They covered each of the seven recruitment steps thoroughly, emphasizing LEAN recruiting techniques throughout the process. The IBM team also learned about the importance of treating recruitment as a sales challenge, first and foremost.

Having now conducted several international recruitment training programs, Seven Step has learned that our unique recruitment principles are applicable and effective in a variety of cultures. And we've seen the benefits of this in our own RPO work.

When we're working with US-based companies to fill US-based jobs, everything we do is done domestically. But several of our clients also have recruiting needs in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In those circumstances, we'll typically manage all client and hiring-manager relationship tasks here, while working with teams like the one in Budapest to execute the ground-level recruiting.

Delivering our unique training programs internationally helps ensure that when we take on global assignments, there are well-trained teams ready to deliver Seven Step's trademark productivity and performance from points all over the world.