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.
So much of your struggle begins with poor interviews, weak recruiters, long application process and bad job board ads. This happens often because skill sets are not retooled and there isn't enough educating.
Job boards are becoming less and less of an avenue to reach clients. People are realizing that ideal candidates come from proactively searching for people interested in leaving their current careers.
You will find out that the best resumes don't mean the best candidates. You have to know your ideal candidate and realize that they are getting targeted usually from day one that they are interested.
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%.
A lot of recruiters and corporations have found a lot more success with niche sites and social networks to find job candidates. Putting a face to the company and helping someone feel comfortable gives you a step ahead of your competition.
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.
One of the best tools you can use is TalentSeekr by EnticeLabs to get a good connection to candidates in their ideal sites. On top of that it will be at a tenth of the cost of job boards with 5 times the reach. - 15634
So much of your struggle begins with poor interviews, weak recruiters, long application process and bad job board ads. This happens often because skill sets are not retooled and there isn't enough educating.
Job boards are becoming less and less of an avenue to reach clients. People are realizing that ideal candidates come from proactively searching for people interested in leaving their current careers.
You will find out that the best resumes don't mean the best candidates. You have to know your ideal candidate and realize that they are getting targeted usually from day one that they are interested.
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%.
A lot of recruiters and corporations have found a lot more success with niche sites and social networks to find job candidates. Putting a face to the company and helping someone feel comfortable gives you a step ahead of your competition.
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.
One of the best tools you can use is TalentSeekr by EnticeLabs to get a good connection to candidates in their ideal sites. On top of that it will be at a tenth of the cost of job boards with 5 times the reach. - 15634
About the Author:
Cade Krueger consults recruiters as the Director of Sales for Entice Labs and assists recruiters establish methods to increase their human resource recruitment by finding early bird passive candidates. He also promotes a product, called TalentSeekr, for online recruitment that reaches five times the audience at a fraction of the cost of job boards. This assists to save recruiters time and money.
