How To Train A Hiring Manager

Let’s face it. As a recruiter, you’re out there on the front lines, rolling up your sleeves to source, screen and slate the top talent on the market. You’re able to do whatever it takes to find that always elusive purple squirrel, that needle in the proverbial passive haystack, and, against all odds, turn them into interested, engaged applicants.

Too bad you can’t get your hiring manager to even e-mail you back feedback on these kick ass candidates – and while they’re twiddling their thumbs, you’re losing money, time and ultimately, the candidate you worked so hard to fill those impossible requirements that unresponsive manager saddled you with in the first place.

Every recruiter has had a req (or hundred) derailed by those “hiring managers” who just don’t get it: how to communicate with candidates, how to close the loop with recruiters, or how to conduct a meaningful interview without turning off a potential hire.

The good news? Bad hiring managers don’t have to be a necessary evil. You’ve just got to learn some tips and tricks for whipping those problem stakeholders into shape.

In this exclusive event brought to you by our friends at Jobvite, Carmen Hudson, principal consultant at Recruiting Toolbox and founder of Talent42, will show you how to manage your managers AND get them to actually do that whole “hiring” part with proven strategies and time-honored tips.

In this complimentary webinar, you’ll learn:

How Great Hiring Managers Interview and what you need to do to make sure that yours are ready to make the right hire by asking the right questions.
Driving Faster Decision Making to help reduce the recruiting lifecycle, get offers out faster and partner with your hiring team to cut days to fill and cost per hire.
Setting Expectations from intake meeting to developing a requisition-based SLA, we’ll look at some of the things you can start doing today to make hiring manager best practices a part of your process.

If you’ve ever dealt with a problem hiring manager (and what recruiter hasn’t), this is one webinar you won’t want to miss. Register now and reserve your seat for this one hour crash course from Recruiting Daily and Jobvite.

Comment by Matt Charney on March 17, 2015 at 6:15pm: Carmen kicks ass. Can't wait for this one.

Comment by Nicholas Meyler on March 17, 2015 at 8:01pm: Some are untrainable. I had four successful searches/placements in a row with one hiring manager, and then he kicked me off the fifth one, even though my very first candidate made it through three tough phone interviews. Then I submitted another 15 resumes that he totally ignored, not even giving me feedback on the very best candidates, one of whom was internationally famous and another who was a perfect match from a target company he had named.

So, this makes the case for retained search. This is where there is a difference between exclusive and retained work... Exclusive work is definitely less obligated on the client's part. Obviously. Even with a client that paid $200,000 worth of fees in two years.