Managing Recruiters

Hi all - my role has expanded to managing two full-time recruiters. I myself a recruiter have a general sense of how to manage my team (metrics tracking, time to fill etc), but I am wondering if anyone has any specific tips on managing my team around candidate management. This is a skill that I inherently get but I am not 100% sure of how to teach it.

Finally, I am wondering what advice anyone can give if they are the middle person between the hiring manager and the recruiter. How do you manage the expectations of the hiring manager with the capacity of the recruiter?

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Andres on December 2, 2009 at 3:38pm

I think your first question is interesting, how to manage.....

The question is, what is a Recruiter?:

1) Is just guy who looks for expand his network "ad eternum" with one goal: create the greatest database and a nice pivot table
2) or, is an kind of permanent "environment" observer able to put in scale different types of tips to look for inside resumes or directly in every person who knows, building a "2.0 Network" where he knows about some details but overall knows about the potential -ideally- of each people inside.

Guiding my speech from this second idea.... I think that a Recruiters Manager would it be a Facilitator between his team ability to organize, accumulate info, and the competence to discover and pondering this "things" that make differences between potential candidates.

I hope to be clear with this "fly" idea.

Regards