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Recruitment Strategy Development – Contacting the Passive Candidate
When you decide to direct source instead of simply posting and hoping, how do you approach the passive candidate? Do you call and say, “Hey! Would you like to work for us?” I’ve listened as corporate and third party recruiters tried similar lines. Naturally they did not like the rejection – and returned to posting…
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As a contract recruitment consulting professional, I listen to companies when they say they are looking for the elusive passive candidate. When I ask them how they plan to attract that person, generally they reply that they want to post a job where they will respond. They then ask where I suggest they post the…
Read MoreCandidates – Effective Resumes
I have been a professional recruiter for 29 years and recently signed a contract with a publisher to publish my first book on finding a job in this economy. Over the years I have read over 400,000 resumes. Back in the early 90’s I was timed by an assistant as I reviewed a stack of…
Read MoreRecruitment Strategy Development – Resume Retrieval
Over my 29 years of recruitment, one of my clients’ biggest problems in sourcing resumes has been retrieving them from their own files. In the “beginning”, paper resumes were stuffed into file drawers after they were reviewed by a recruiter – generally never to be found again. A year or two later they were all…
Read MoreRecruitment Strategy Development – Mobile Recruiting technology will leap frog Internet postings
As part of my Recruitment Strategy Development series, RecruiterGuy is making a prediction. Mobile recruiting technology is going to leap frog the Internet posting sourcing that everyone has grown to both love and hate. Your Applicant Tracking System will enable candidates to opt in to your mobile recruiting program. They have the opportunity to post…
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