Six Sigma - embracing this discipline can help your company compete more effectively for talent and have the recruitment function perform at a higher level. It will help transform your company recruitment process into a strategic process with high levels of predictability in terms of:

> Quantity

> Quality of hire

> Improved hiring manager satisfaction

> Reduced attrition

Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, applied the Six Sigma approach to transform GE’s business and helped popularized the discipline. According to Welch, it is “A highly disciplined process that helps us focus on developing and delivering near-perfect products and services.” Today, this methodology can also be applied in a number of ways, including how companies recruit valuable workers and manage their talent supply chain.

Six Sigma was developed 20 years ago at Motorola, which, at the time, was suffering huge losses in the electronic market due to competition from Asia. The name Six Sigma is statistical in nature and reflects a measurement of how far a given service deviates from “perfect.” In practical terms, it helps to determine how much a service provider deviates from delivering perfect service.

WHY IS SIX SIGMA IMPORTANT?
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