Recruiting Ideal Job Candidates Before Your Competition Does
It is so important for you to set up your recruiting system properly whether you are a external head hunter or a manager setting up your recruiting department. It is important you do everything you can to get to candidates and retain them well as they go through their job decision process.
The sad truth is that if it take a couple weeks to get to a candidate then you are either getting to them to late or they are not an ideal candidate. You have to become a master with the phone and internet when it comes to networking candidates.
Understand that a candidate will look at opportunities first before going to any trusted sources to peek into other situations to see what is going on. They want to understand what options they have out there before they go to a recruiter or a trusted work peer they have interaction with.
It doesn’t mean they are going to leave their job, but it means they are losing passion and want to see if their is a better future in another job with another company. They want to peek into other campuses to see if there are exciting work or innovative projects.
In fact a candidate will go for less pay if they can see there is a great future in a new career where they feel valued and that they are doing something exciting. It just has to fit where they see themselves going in life.
If you have a specific job you have to fill for a corporation then understand who it is that you are looking for and how they would find that position appealing. Use those unique selling points and stick that into your pitch. Ask them questions that would lead them to realizing that this job does fit their benefits.
Make sure that you are using SEM and SEO to diversify and leverage intelligently online to get in front of a lot of people. EnticeLabs and their TalentSeekr product is great for SEM and Jobs2Web does well with targeting SEO.
As you collect these names you should have some type of recruiting CRM like iCIMS to collect all of these names and use them wisely. You should nurture them as much as possible. If you do this then you will create a fortune and have a never ending pipeline to market to.
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