Viagra for recruiters

Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler of CareerXroads put out an Update newsletter that should be part of your regular recruting reads.

In the update that just hit my Inbox, G&M shared some ideas from their recent colloquium on how to salvage recruiting if you're feeling pressure to perform:

Reducing monetary Employee Referral awards or shifting [employee referrals] to non-monetary perks.
Taking a hard look at Job Board/Resume Database spending and [at least temporarily] reducing all costly recruiting initiatives that produce marginal returns. Stick to the efforts that get 80% of a job family's qualified candidates rather than the 50 things that get the last 20%.
Freezing-out 3rd party recruitment agencies as a [sources of hire]. "They are toast. It's us or them."
No F/T hires - only contingent or contract.
Recruiting tools are great but everyone does not have to have them. "What Toys can you do without?"
Create, improve and manage your recruitment branding campaign with internal resources.
Save talented recruiters by shifting them to outplacement, recruitment marketing, metrics, workforce planning or other areas of the Company

As if agencies didn't hate corporate recruiters enough!