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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

Think about aspects of your organization that are unrelated to HR but still relevant to the recruiting process, such as company brand and core competencies. Some factors, like your employer brand, begin as an internal element, but then become an external factor subject to independent opinion. Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.”

SWOT 119
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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

The added complexity and loss of focus on the Nike brand was a lesson well-learned and it didn’t take Nike long to see the error of their ways. What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. This is strategic sacrifice.

Company 177
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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

Think about aspects of your organization that are unrelated to HR but still relevant to the recruiting process, such as company brand and core competencies. Some factors, like your employer brand, begin as an internal element, but then become an external factor subject to independent opinion. Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.”

SWOT 52
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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

Think about aspects of your organization that are unrelated to HR but still relevant to the recruiting process, such as company brand and core competencies. Some factors, like your employer brand, begin as an internal element, but then become an external factor subject to independent opinion. Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.”

SWOT 52
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The Peanut Butter and Jelly Approach to Growth

Harvard Business Review

How did such an old-school consumer brand company make it near the top of a list of hot growth firms? Smucker's has grown over the past decade largely by taking on cast-off food brands from Procter & Gamble, its Ohio consumer products neighbor, and finding ways to grow them again. Capitalizing on the emotional equity of its brands.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

Hard factors being the typical features, costs, and capabilities that our clients would look at themselves, and soft factors being things like installation, out of box experience, usability, aesthetics, brand value, etc. Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit.