Friday, December 19, 2008

How To Recruit Job Candidates In A Bad Market?

By Cade Krueger

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.

Candidates will look at opportunities on their own to get a peek into what other cultures look like out there. They will do this before going to talk with trusted work peers or recruiters because they are curious.

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 get paid less in order to find some job that provides them with joy and a feeling of worth in their life that they are currently missing. It has to fit their long term or at least short term goals 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 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. - 16755

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