Recruiting In a Downturn Economy

As a third-party recruiter, I have received many articles and webinar invitations revolving around recruiting in a downturn economy. I would be interested in having an open dialogue with recruiters and corporate talent acquisition teams to see how they are handling our current economy.

Note: I do not open this as a camplaining session as we can all do that, but rather hopefully gain insight for the overall benefit of the group.

Comment by Sue Kunimune on November 20, 2008 at 5:31pm: Hi Trip,

I am doing workshops. Focusing on Getting Hired in a Global Economy, Job Seeker Social Media 101 etc.

Comment by bill josephson on November 20, 2008 at 8:05pm: Hi Trip,

I'm working my ass off making more presentations (40-50 per day) and spending lots more time researching and sourcing the evening before typically up till 11:30 or so to have enough calls to accomplish my call goal. I believe the corporate sector jobs market will be bad for a long time and regard every day as a serious life and death struggle finding qualified passive candidates over the phone meeting client company criteria. Only thing you can do/control in an awful market is try to outwork it, IMO, with more calls.

Bill