Posted: August 14, 2009 at 9:46 am
The changing labor market has presented management with an onslaught of unsolicited resumes…some good…some not so good. To some there is a perception that there is a glut of candidates on the open market…however, the screening, interviewing and hiring processes need to be that much more selective! How do you get to the passive job seeker?
I have had success finding the passive candidate by embracing the newest sourcing techniques. I am committed to understanding the goals and objectives of my clients, as well as my candidates. Staying ahead of the curve allows me to present the most impressive candidates to my clients. Let me enable you to replace fixed costs with the variable expense of contingency recruiting.
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
Posted: August 14, 2009 at 9:45 am
Lately I have been using Twitter to look for candidates for my open jobs. I have been having great success attracting all levels of candidates to respond to my Twitters. By twittering many times a day I have been constantly adding new followers. Just yesterday I was able to speak to two candidates that my client has never spoken to before. This is a very valuable tool that I have added to my repertoire.
That got me thinking that Twitter is definitely a great tool for people actively looking for jobs as well. I have many followers from many different cities that are posting jobs. Some of them are posting 8-10 jobs every day. If you are looking for a job it would be very smart to follow these twitterers. My followers and people I am following vary from individual recruiters to job boards, to regional job sites to corporate job boards. All of them are twittering about their open jobs all day long. I think it would be very smart to add Twitter to your job search toolkit if you are looking for a job now.
To follow me go to: https://twitter.com/RecruiterKevin
Posted: August 4, 2009 at 9:47 am
As part of my duties as a recruiter I always search online for a job candidates online presense. This starts with a Google search of the candidates name and can often lead to finding out all about the social networking profiles, past blog posts, basically anything with their name attached.
I recently read a statistic that said that over 77% of job recruiters check their candidates online profiles. So that means that many of the jobs that you are submitting yourself to will check up on you. So if you have those “fun” party pics online from last 4th of July, I will see them. If you are posting unkind comments about people, places or things, I will see that too. That can have a very adverse affect on your job prospects. Those pictures might show you in a certain viewpoint that will make a corporate recruiter or headhunter decide you are not the right fit for any positions.
I have heard, and seen myself, many horror stories about candidates Facebook, Myspace, Blogposts, Twitters etc. Everything that you post online is there forever. You may delete it on one site, but the way there are so many sites that collect information you never know if it is really gone.
So if you are currently looking for a job, you have to make sure that your online presence is the type of person that a company would want to hire. If you have racy, drunken, irresponsible pictures on your sites, that may send a negative impression to the hiring authority. You need to remove them and get your profile to be a generic version of yourself. If you want to share pictures and comments with your friends, email them or call them. You don’t need to be sharing that picture of you with eyes half mast and 20 beer bottles on the coffee table. Because if it is there, I will find it and that won’t earn you many points in the responsibility department I use when evaluating candidates to present to my clients.
I suggest you look at your social networking accounts and clean them up. Even protecting or limiting your profile can not prevent people from seeing what you are posting online. If you want that perfect job, think about what you want to be viewed as and edit accordingly.
I finally suggest that you do a Google search on yourself to check to see what you are presenting to the world. Make sure it is the impression you want to give to the person who holds the key to your dream job. Because I guarantee (well, at 8 times out of 10) that recruiter will be doing the same Google search on you.
Posted: July 20, 2009 at 11:21 am
This is my first Staffing blog post on TransHire’s new blog