There are millions of dollars that are dropped on sourcing that doesn't pan out because those candidates are improperly dealt with. If you are smart with your money you can create a fortune with your candidates by investing correctly and finding the right people that will make a huge long term impact with your company.
We see these struggles in terrible interviews, weak recruiters with bad skills, boring application process and job board ads without that excitement. Skill sets and systems are not sharpened and people fall through the cracks toward your competition.
Job boards are a waste of money the more that time passes on. Many people feel that it is a cheap way to find job candidates, but they don't go where the ideal candidates are hanging out on the internet.
You will find out that the best resumes don't mean the best candidates. You have to know your ideal candidate and realize that they are getting targeted usually from day one that they are interested.
Most of the job boards are starting to lose traffic because people are realizing that it isn't an ideal source for targeted job candidates. Monster and Career Builder had 1% of the job search traffic and now it is less than .2%.
A lot of recruiters and corporations have found a lot more success with niche sites and social networks to find job candidates. Putting a face to the company and helping someone feel comfortable gives you a step ahead of your competition.
Job candidates begin not by leaving their job, but by being curious about what is out there. If you can reach them soon and build their trust then can make all the difference. It can be evident even in employee referral programs.
One of the best tools you can use is TalentSeekr by EnticeLabs to get a good connection to candidates in their ideal sites. On top of that it will be at a tenth of the cost of job boards with 5 times the reach. - 16463
We see these struggles in terrible interviews, weak recruiters with bad skills, boring application process and job board ads without that excitement. Skill sets and systems are not sharpened and people fall through the cracks toward your competition.
Job boards are a waste of money the more that time passes on. Many people feel that it is a cheap way to find job candidates, but they don't go where the ideal candidates are hanging out on the internet.
You will find out that the best resumes don't mean the best candidates. You have to know your ideal candidate and realize that they are getting targeted usually from day one that they are interested.
Most of the job boards are starting to lose traffic because people are realizing that it isn't an ideal source for targeted job candidates. Monster and Career Builder had 1% of the job search traffic and now it is less than .2%.
A lot of recruiters and corporations have found a lot more success with niche sites and social networks to find job candidates. Putting a face to the company and helping someone feel comfortable gives you a step ahead of your competition.
Job candidates begin not by leaving their job, but by being curious about what is out there. If you can reach them soon and build their trust then can make all the difference. It can be evident even in employee referral programs.
One of the best tools you can use is TalentSeekr by EnticeLabs to get a good connection to candidates in their ideal sites. On top of that it will be at a tenth of the cost of job boards with 5 times the reach. - 16463
About the Author:
Cade Krueger instructs recruiters as the Director of Sales for Entice Labs and helps recruiters create systems to improve their human resource recruitment by finding early bird passive candidates. He also endorses a product, called TalentSeekr, for online recruitment that reaches five times the candidates at a fraction of the cost of job boards. This helps to save recruiters time and money.
