Where would you get your next employee?
Where would you get your next employee?
This has been a common question to most recruiters recently whether the company is big or small. Others would rather stick to the traditional approach i.e. news paper postings since they’ve got good experiences using that system. To others who can really afford or who just wanted to exploit those job seekers who use the internet as their medium of searching for their next employer they tend to rely on various expensive job portals.  With both trends being used by companies right now, where in the latter is more or less 10 yrs older, I’m sorry to tell you this that your stuck on both old systems that is not really effective to date and shall I say that your recruiters are not doing their job, that you never utilized every resources and means available or simply put you fail to innovate.
Let me drop this question to employers who’ve been using both mediums as their only approach in luring applicants to your vacancies.
How effective was the approach? I define effectiveness here where in you are still in contact with those potential applicants 24/7 out from those methods i.e. news paper postings and job portal subscriptions. Another question is, were the applicants who came from those medium qualified or even potential for the position without even lowering your standards? Is it worth keeping their resumes (efile’s & hard copies) for a fact that resumes gets obsolete after 6 months? Was it worth the investment or resources – time? Well of course cases in point here are dependent to what type of industry you are into. But before flooding me your answers you might consider my points.
The most common problems a recruiter would most likely encounter is that, when a vacancy is available and you now have an eyed applicant in your pool. You start retrieving his/her resume and start calling the potential applicant only to find out that his contact information is not anymore active. To make the matter worst, his not open for the post and his resume is already 6 – 9 months old, not unless if this applicant has been sending you his/her updated resume every week so I would presume also that you’re company has been spending again and again just to get these resumes filed in your resume banks. And then your databank crashes gone are those efiles – resume.
