As we face a difficult economy it becomes increasingly important to think wisely and not get emotional about sourcing job candidates. With smart decisions you can actually move ahead of your competition if that is in another company or within your own company with competing recruiters.
One of the smartest things you can do if you are a manager is to institute a 80/20 rule by making sure that the top 20% of your recruiters are kept and they are also given renewed contracts. There is nothing more attractive then getting a guarantee from a company during a difficult time period. You will obviously have to cut your bottom 10% to deal with the difficult economy and trim down the fat.
With the middle 70% you are going to have to be intelligent and look at each situation by an individual basis to find out exactly what works and what doesn't work during a challenging economy. Effort is so important with each person and often they just need time to prove themselves.
Even if you are not a manager these same rules apply and you have to be smart with analyzing how to spend your time and focus on the 20% that is going to pay off the most. Find areas that suck your time and don't create productivity in finding ideal candidates.
Look to train and make improvements in your strategies and look for ways to train out of the box during non work hours. If your are a front line recruiter then be smart about your efforts and use your day time to really focus on phone calls and evening on emails and training.
You need to also start planning your hiring needs by the quarter for all of your major positions that you need to fill. If you do this then it will be a good example for all of the line managers who can implement similar tactics by updating their quarterly agenda and follow that up with quarterly tracking.
One of the smartest things you can do is look at social media options like Jobs2Web and Entice Labs as avenues to attract the appropriate talent during a difficult economy. This can be a breakthrough for your recruiting in nuturing the right candidates when many recruiters are jumping ship.
These are going to be wise avenues for you to create a lot of money during this time that will save cost per hire and improve your time per hire. All of this can lead to a huge boom when we come out of this economic downfall. - 15359
One of the smartest things you can do if you are a manager is to institute a 80/20 rule by making sure that the top 20% of your recruiters are kept and they are also given renewed contracts. There is nothing more attractive then getting a guarantee from a company during a difficult time period. You will obviously have to cut your bottom 10% to deal with the difficult economy and trim down the fat.
With the middle 70% you are going to have to be intelligent and look at each situation by an individual basis to find out exactly what works and what doesn't work during a challenging economy. Effort is so important with each person and often they just need time to prove themselves.
Even if you are not a manager these same rules apply and you have to be smart with analyzing how to spend your time and focus on the 20% that is going to pay off the most. Find areas that suck your time and don't create productivity in finding ideal candidates.
Look to train and make improvements in your strategies and look for ways to train out of the box during non work hours. If your are a front line recruiter then be smart about your efforts and use your day time to really focus on phone calls and evening on emails and training.
You need to also start planning your hiring needs by the quarter for all of your major positions that you need to fill. If you do this then it will be a good example for all of the line managers who can implement similar tactics by updating their quarterly agenda and follow that up with quarterly tracking.
One of the smartest things you can do is look at social media options like Jobs2Web and Entice Labs as avenues to attract the appropriate talent during a difficult economy. This can be a breakthrough for your recruiting in nuturing the right candidates when many recruiters are jumping ship.
These are going to be wise avenues for you to create a lot of money during this time that will save cost per hire and improve your time per hire. All of this can lead to a huge boom when we come out of this economic downfall. - 15359
About the Author:
Cade Krueger works with recruiters as the Director of Sales for Entice Labs and helps recruiters with sourcing job candidates for quality hires. He also promotes a product, called TalentSeekr, for human resource recruitment that reaches five times the candidates at a tenth of the cost of job boards. This helps to save recruiters time and money.
