geographic footprint, sheer size, stragegically placed

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While each company faces unique challenges with its industry,
geographic footprint, and sheer size, there are a few definitive signs that it
 might be time to consider outside support of your recruitment function.
 Here are a few points to consider:

 * Your company has immediate plans to hire high volumes of
 employees—from a few dozen to hundreds or more—in three to five months.
 * These imminent volume hires are for highly specialized roles
 (engineering, finance/accounting, healthcare, etc.).
 * Your organization requires these volume hires to be strategically
 placed across multiple geographies.
 * You work for a start-up organization or are planning to relocate.
 * Your company faces a significant shift in business strategy
 and/or plans to launch new products or services.
 * Merger or acquisition plans are on your company’s horizon.

Please explain the emboldened parts to me.

Feebs11 · Accepted Answer

Gary, are you making use of the dictionaries? You ought to be able to work these out for yourself. Could you try to tell us what you think they might mean and then we can agree or disagree.

User_gary · Answer

Yes. I always look into my dictionaries before I ask here.

Here is what my dictionary says about "geography" and "footprint"

footprint = the mark made by a person's or animal's foot
geography = geography http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=32565&ph=on
noun
1 the study of the systems and processes involved in the world's weather, mountains, seas, lakes, etc. and of the ways in which countries and people organize life within an area
2 the geography of somewhere the way all the parts of an area are arranged within it:
We learnt about the geography of Australia.
It's impossible to work out the geography of this hospital.

I understand the meaning of "geography" and "footprint" individually after I looked them up in the dictionaries, but I don't have any idea what "geographic footprint" means.

And I guess "sheer size" means "very big size". Am I correct?

Feebs11 · Answer

Thanks - I was just making sure!
In the context of the article, the geographic footprint is the range or number of countries in which a company is operating. Esso Petroleum has a large geographic footprint, as has Macdonalds.

Yes, you are correct about sheer size.

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