Recruiting Daily is pleased to welcome back HireCentrix’.com’s own Karen Mattonen, CAC, CSP as our guest blogger this week.
Recruiting can be difficult, thus finding a softer easier way, allowing us to make less calls but still obtain better targeted candidates is often crucial for many of us freeing up more time to be more constructive with management of our daily tasks, or maybe even to spend with family.
We all want to find ways to recruit better profiled passive candidates, with less calls, better targeted calls, which will give us more focus, more time to spend being able to close..
Some of the more successful recruiters agree: you don’t have to lie and cheat to be successful. You just have to know how to best use the human and information resources that are available to you.
We all want to find ways to be More effective in sourcing for our clients, for ourselves. To waste less time on dead ends, identify candidate that will be better qualified, and when you call them you will have much more effective conversations with them.
Yes, it can be done. It takes some investigative work, and a little time. But it can be done in a way that brings value to us and our clients
Lets try to draw a picture here –
Let’s say there was an apple cider competition – the mission is to find a bushel of apples, the one who brings back the sweetest, biggest and the most wins
Due to lack of knowledge, or maybe due to familiarity – Contestant No 1 immediately goes for the obvious. Targeting the low hanging fruit, which is rarely the sweetest or biggest, and often the most raided, as it is the same fruit that all the competitors are also going after. Soon the Tree becomes Barren and doesn’t produce.
The First Contestant grabbed the yellow pages, called into the orchards to find out who was the best.
Not a good idea Continue reading “Apple Orchard Method of Candidate Development”
