Whitepaper
Lost in Translation
Going international is more than translation. Why multi-country recruitment multiplies complexity, and how to build for it.
About this whitepaper
Going international looks like a translation exercise. It isn't. Every country you add brings its own labour market, legislation, languages, application patterns and reporting expectations, and recruitment technology that works in one country routinely breaks in the next.
This whitepaper is for TA leaders and HRIT/HRIS leads running a global recruitment technology programme: a new ATS, a new career site, or an expansion into new countries. It shows where the complexity actually sits, and how to build an architecture, governance model and supplier approach that still holds up when you add country number two, three and four.
Six chapters
What's inside
More than a translation
Why localised recruitment is a design problem, not a language setting.
The case for global recruitment
What a global approach should deliver, and where the business case quietly breaks down.
The decisions that determine your international architecture
The choices made in the first months that are expensive, or impossible, to undo later.
Recruitment architecture: think in flows
Designing from candidate and recruiter flows instead of country-by-country silos.
Governance and ownership: who owns what
Splitting ownership between global, regional and local without losing accountability.
Making it work
How to move from design to delivery, with two practical checklists: one for choosing a supplier, one for adding a new country.
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