Innovation in recruitment?!

Can there be innovation in something which is perceived as mundane as recruitment??

Well, there are bound to be contrarian views, but, most of us recruiters who believe that what we do (we RECRUIT!) is both art and science have to essentially innovate in recruitment.... I was reading a fellow recruiters thoughts, in which he delved on how they had to think out-of-the-box to hire techno-marketing/sales people for for a pharma company at Coimbatore (India) - they looked at bio-tech grads and advised the client to train these people in sales thus closing the position!!

This in a sense, is innovation.... in a space that grapples with acute shortage of the skilled people for appropriate positions.....

Innovation also is telling your client what are the pitfalls in the kind of targeted hiring they need, in the face of competing organisations for the same skilled people and the staggering compensation that most of them may be willing to pay.... and proferring solutions to the clients as how out-of-the-box thinking would solve attendant recruitment challenges......