There are millions of dollars that are dropped on sourcing that doesn't pan out because those candidates are improperly dealt with. If you are smart with your money you can create a fortune with your candidates by investing correctly and finding the right people that will make a huge long term impact with your company.
We see these struggles in terrible interviews, weak recruiters with bad skills, boring application process and job board ads without that excitement. Skill sets and systems are not sharpened and people fall through the cracks toward your competition.
One of the least effective ways to spend money is to put it into job boards where ideal candidates are not searching. If they do go there it is a last ditch effort and you will find very few people that are ideal on those general sites.
It isn't often the person with the best resume is the ideal candidate, because to be honest most of the successful people are not used to updating a resume. They are too sought after that their resume quality is not that important. A lot of the active candidates that can't find jobs usually don't have the skills to warrant being interviewed.
Traffic on job boards have gradually decreased over the past few years because people are realizing it isn't an ideal place for traffic. 3 years ago Career Builder and Monster had 1% of the traffic and now it is down to less than .2%.
If you are smart then you will start using niche sites or social networks to get to your job candidates. It gives you a great way to interact with ideal candidates before competing recruiters find your people.
Job candidates are looking for people that they can trust and that is why they go to trusted professionals first or recruiters that they know from past experiences. That is why you see employee referral programs work so well.
A very wise tool to use is the TalentSeekr by EnticeLabs to get a good connection to candidates in their nice sites. In a bad economy it is a smart decision being that it is a tenth of the cost of job boards with 5 times the reach of the same job boards. - 15431
We see these struggles in terrible interviews, weak recruiters with bad skills, boring application process and job board ads without that excitement. Skill sets and systems are not sharpened and people fall through the cracks toward your competition.
One of the least effective ways to spend money is to put it into job boards where ideal candidates are not searching. If they do go there it is a last ditch effort and you will find very few people that are ideal on those general sites.
It isn't often the person with the best resume is the ideal candidate, because to be honest most of the successful people are not used to updating a resume. They are too sought after that their resume quality is not that important. A lot of the active candidates that can't find jobs usually don't have the skills to warrant being interviewed.
Traffic on job boards have gradually decreased over the past few years because people are realizing it isn't an ideal place for traffic. 3 years ago Career Builder and Monster had 1% of the traffic and now it is down to less than .2%.
If you are smart then you will start using niche sites or social networks to get to your job candidates. It gives you a great way to interact with ideal candidates before competing recruiters find your people.
Job candidates are looking for people that they can trust and that is why they go to trusted professionals first or recruiters that they know from past experiences. That is why you see employee referral programs work so well.
A very wise tool to use is the TalentSeekr by EnticeLabs to get a good connection to candidates in their nice sites. In a bad economy it is a smart decision being that it is a tenth of the cost of job boards with 5 times the reach of the same job boards. - 15431
About the Author:
Cade Krueger consults recruiters as the Director of Sales for Entice Labs and helps recruiters establish systems to improve their human resource recruitment by locating early bird passive candidates. He also promotes a product, called TalentSeekr, for online recruitment that reaches five times the candidates at a fraction of the cost of job boards. This helps to save recruiters time and money.
