Friday, December 19, 2008

How To Recruit Job Candidates In A Bad Market?

By Cade Krueger

If you set up a nurturing campaign extremely well and recruit candidates early on then you will find so much success and destroy your competition. There are several steps you need to follow in order to make this happen.

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.

They are not willing to leave their job, but they are losing interest in their current position and realizing they are not happy with their future. They are looking for jobs that will stretch them with exciting work and innovative projects.

A candidate will be willing to give up pay if it means they are doing something that they truly enjoy. You have to find something for them that fits their desired growth and where they want to go with 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.

Look for ways to leverage with SEM and SEO to get your brand out there faster with more eyes able to see it. I suggest that you go toward EnticeLabs and TalentSeekr if you want to focus on SEM and Jobs2Web if you are targeting SEO.

As you find these candidates you need to use a solid recruiting CRM to organize and continue to nurture these candidates. iCIMS is a solid CRM that you can use to keep going at your candidates to show you are valued asset. - 15359

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