Friday, December 19, 2008

How To Recruit Job Candidates In A Bad Market?

By Cade Krueger

If you want to build a solid nurturing campaign and continue to find your candidates before your competition does then there are some important techniques and tools you need to use. If you use them wisely then you will leverage your time better and get better results.

The sad truth is that if it take a couple weeks to get to a candidate then you are either getting to them to late or they are not an ideal candidate. You have to become a master with the phone and internet when it comes to networking candidates.

Candidates will look at opportunities on their own to get a peek into what other cultures look like out there. They will do this before going to talk with trusted work peers or recruiters because they are curious.

They are not willing to leave their job, but they are losing interest in their current position and realizing they are not happy with their future. They are looking for jobs that will stretch them with exciting work and innovative projects.

A candidate will be willing to give up pay if it means they are doing something that they truly enjoy. You have to find something for them that fits their desired growth and where they want to go with life.

If you are filling a job for a specific location then find out exactly what the ideal candidate will be looking for. Ask candidates questions that will help lead them to the understanding of what this job can do for them.

Make sure that you are using SEM and SEO to diversify and leverage intelligently online to get in front of a lot of people. EnticeLabs and their TalentSeekr product is great for SEM and Jobs2Web does well with targeting SEO.

As you find these solid candidates you have to create solid recruiting nurturing tanks. The best way to do this is with a solid recruiting CRM like iCIMS to collect these names and keep marketing to them while saving you time.

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