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Blog Post: Employers & Recruiters

Ways to simplify the hiring process. I know you all think of ways to eliminate your time reviewing resumes but never know of a simple solution. I would say it takes two to three hours…

Added by Betina S Benton at 1:24pm on April 17, 2012

Comment on: Blog Post 'Does focusing tightly on numbers scare recruiters away?': ware of where you are at. Having said that, I think for a brand new recruiter, focusing on connects is a good first step, but eventually the focus needs to shift to how many submits and how many interviews your getting per week because as you become more adept at recruiting and building your pipeline of candidates, you shouldn't need to make 200 calls per week to get the submissions and interviews.…; Added by David Sanders at 11:11am on February 15, 2012

Comment on: Blog Post 'Understanding Your Recruiter Ratios': tracking ratios so this will be a New Years resolution! Good article - thanks!…; Added by Will Branning at 6:55pm on November 29, 2011

Comment on: Blog Post '“Fake” postings and your job board': mage has been done. A company that post's their job for a week then pulls up stakes due to some cockamani excuse. They are only looking for resumes to fill their database so that they won't pay a 3rd party recruiter. If you go to the LinkedIn Group, US Jobs, Careers, and Networks. You'll see a posting about HR. Alot of good and various comments has been kept inside of some individuals and have finally come out in the open. I'm dealing right now with a posting in the Recruit Alliance job board that I feel is a fake posting. 20 resumes have been submitted to this posting and all have been rejected. They are only accepting 20 at a time. This is the 2nd go around. They have already accepted 20 and rejected all, now moving on to the next 20 resumes for submittal.I submitted a candidate among the 20 submittals and it was rejected for the reason of having "more qualified candidates" than the one I submitted. How can they have any to base this on if not one has been accepted, or under review unless they are also sourcing in another board? When is sent them a message on this I have received no reply. There is alot of this going on and it's sad to say that the company's who have their salaried HR people in place, are feasting off of the hard working 3rd party recruiter's that are feeding them the cream of the crop.…; Added by Bobby Gipson at 3:13pm on January 6, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'Double Submittals': even before the relationship has had a chance to get off the ground. I have seen many a recruiter put in huge amounts of hard graft and time, convincing the candidate to "trust" them and to gain their permission to represent them for a company believed to be right for the individual. The recruiter does not disclose any information around who the candidate may end up working for at this stage and when an interview request comes back from the client and the company name is finally disclosed the recruiter can often find the candidate is suddenly no longer interested because they had previously heard something bad about that company, interviewed there in the past and had a bad experience (vowed never to go back again), looked at the website and details now presented and simply doesn’t agree that this is the best route for them or their career, or they wanted to work for a larger / smaller organisation etc etc. In some instances, the candidate phones the recruiter and even states they are going to be working through the agent who did disclose the full client name and details – this is because they find them more trustworthy to work with and will happily tell the client this if asked. There are a whole host of reasons why this method should not be used, too many things to list in fact not mentioning that you could submit them to find they have already been submitted and had to mentioned the client up front you could have even saved yourself some work! Ultimately, the only true way of getting candidate commitment and building trust, knowing exactly whether you have their full and genuine commitment, is to work at the relationship from the offset and treat each person with the respect they deserve. ...If you do, you'll find it much more rewarding as they stand by you. They always come to back to you when they are in a position to hire, they also refer you to others and even open new doors - ultimately because they trust you, like you, know how you work and highly recommend it! Equally for clarification, it’s important to say a recruiter does not just blurt out the information in full glory until you have thoroughly interviewed the individual in detail and feel totally comfortable that you are on the road to building trust and believe the candidate is right for the position - knowing they will agree with you given all of your qualification questioning! I must also say I agree with Andy above, that the client must take X amount of responsibility for duplication issues. It's no good telling their recruiters they want quality and through qualification if they also enforce a ‘first come, first served’ type policy with CV's submitted. It only encourages this poor behaviour from all agencies briefed – assuming there is more than one and it’s not an exclusive assignment. I like to think all recruiter want to deliver a quality and in depth, thorough service - however we all know that the wrong working environment, wrong client and colleague values all make speed a bigger driver than quality.…; Added by Sam Evans at 1:54pm on March 31, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'Candidate Questions that I do not care for': e an understanding of the competitive landscape. Asking a question like this shows awareness and a willingness to take your process (whatever that may be) head-on that I would think would be an appealing trait to you. My feeling would be that, rather than sniffing out weakness in the process, they are getting a read on how you are looking at them (a number? an individual?). My suggestion would be to answer them honestly. :) Happy Holidays!…; Added by Doug Ries at 3:03pm on December 22, 2008

Comment on: Topic 'Are you Kidding me! Does this really work!?!?!?!': clause that requires them to have daily supervision of their contractors and raises their costs so the lawsuits are flying. The ones i hate are the ones who have the candidate send their resume so it appears that they are submitting it as an individual applying for job. When one calls the number they provide one gets one of the boiler room "handlers "who lets you know that he owns the candidate.…; Added by Sandra McCartt at 11:37am on August 11, 2010

Blog Post: 2006 OFCCP Ruling Made Easy!!

2006 OFCCP Ruling Made Easy!!

OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program), and the 2006 ruling on "Internet Applicants" have…

Added by Dean Da Costa at 6:47pm on January 25, 2011

Comment on: Blog Post 'Online Recruitment and Social Security': and referrals they require a social as it is the only way to determine the individual when many have the same names, or may be the same person with a different address or with multiple recruiting firms submitting candidates into the ATS it eliminates duplication errors. Or so the spin goes. Course i think AT&T sucks buttermilk so i hope they get hit with a major class action lawsuit for causing a sunami of identity theft.…; Added by Sandra McCartt at 5:39pm on August 4, 2011

Comment on: Blog Post 'The Dumbing Down of Recruiting': our clients' hiring managers - "We're not as quick as some of our competitors". That's because we HAVE to call our candidates, and they HAVE to get back to us.One of the worst parts of our job is when we take the time to speak to a candidate, ask them the normal "Has anyone else spoken to you about this vacancy?", have them tell us "No"...and then submit them to find out that A.N. Other Recruitment Limited has already dropped their CV on the hiring manager's desk.And it's NOT about forgetful candidates (not every time anyway). We always go back to the candidate at this point (because another of our operating policies is to give feedback to candidates, so we have to tell them why the submittal was not accepted) and even when we give them the other agency's name they are adamant that they have not been contacted. I am a very passive individual, but if anything makes me think "Pass me the shotgun" it is this...…; Added by Nigel Coxon at 4:31am on April 11, 2013