Customer Service and Job Postings
How can any recruiter possibly provide a responsive, high-quality recruiting experience and personalized customer service?
Recruiters I have spoken with complain loudly about the hundreds, even thousands, of resumes they receive weekly from unqualified candidates. The most common comment I hear is, "I wish I could reply to every candidate, but if I did I would not be doing my job!"
Candidates, on the other side of the fence, feel that they rarely experience common courtesy from recruiters.
Summer Reading: 3 Great Books for Recruiters
It's deep summer here. Temperatures are climbing and the beach is beckoning. Not much time or motivation to read (or write) long columns about staffing or recruiting.
So, here is my list of summer reading. While I realize most of these books won't make it with you to the beach, I hope you find a quiet moment in the day or evening when you can scan through them. I used only three criteria for picking these books.
How Companies Build Productivity and Promote Retention
At National Semiconductor, new recruits play board games to learn the history of the company. At AMD, new college hires go on outdoor adventures as part of the team building and assimilation process.
Even in bad times, smart organizations are devoting more time to the orientation, or "on-boarding," process and employing more creative and exciting techniques in an effort to get their newly hired employees productive sooner and to lay a foundation that will help retain them.
Could You Automate Recruiting? Some Thoughts on Recruiter Value
From time to time I hear recruiters discuss their fears of being "automated out" of a job. A common fear is that the Internet and enterprise software tools will mean the elimination of recruiters.
How to Deal With Tomorrow: Develop a Talent Strategy
- "I have way too many unqualified applicants."
- "We are swamped with people applying for positions that require special skills or expertise they don't have."
- "We have more and more difficulty finding people that exactly fit our requirements."
- "Our requirements have become much tighter during this recession."
- "Managers don't want to interview 10 or 12 candidates, but they are rarely happy with the ones we send them."
- "No one wants to authorize the use of an agency for this level posi
A College Recruiting Survey
More people go to college in America than in any other country, but at the same time our businesses seek more graduates than anyone else. Believe it or not, unemployment for college graduates is running at less than 2%! Anyone with a chemistry, computer engineering, mathematics, or physics degree should find many job opportunities.
In fact, we face a crisis in the hard sciences. Enrollments have declined in areas such as physics, chemistry, and some types of engineering. At the graduate level, things are even worse.
The Reemergence of Recruiting: 4 Tips on What To Do Now
While no official is willing to publicly say the economy is on the upswing, I am predicting that we are now on the rebound from our economic doldrums. June will likely mark the turnaround in business, and we are already seeing a slowly, steadily increasing number of positions opening in the organizations we work with and talk to.
This recession has been a different one than most.