Ten Things I believe I believe about Recruiting
This is a great post on Recruiting.com by Brian Toland called Ten Things I believe I believe about Recruiting
By Brian Toland
1. I would rather recruit for the hardest job in the world for a client that calls me back than recruit for the easiest job in the world and a client who never does.
2. Recruiters = Sales People. Manage and compensate them as such and it'll become obvious who the good ones in the organization are.
3. Companies lose great candidates because of overly long, poorly communicated recruiting processes. To have great people who want to work for you and have the process drive them away is an outrage.
4. All searches evolve. You rarely hire the exact profile that you set out to find. Knowing when a search is evolving is the key to client satisfaction.
5. Just because there is a job description, don't assume the client knows what they want. Ask questions of everyone on the hiring team since they don't always agree on what they individually want from a candidate. And they don't always know that they all don't agree.
6. In 99% of the searches, it's not about the successful candidate having a particular skill set, it's about the ability and willingness to keep learning.
7. Conducting a search is like building a house. Great research is the foundation and without it, the rest of search will eventually collapse. Any great recruiter should know how to / have done research at some point in their career.
8. Recruiters make their bones on the phone. If you can't / aren't willing to cold call, you won't be a great recruiter.
9. I've stayed in touch with and have more friends among those candidates I didn't place.
10. Except for the hiring managers and candidates, Recruiting is the best job in the world.
Plus one to grow on
11. I have no proof, but I believe that Recruiters make great Texas Hold Em players. A good recruiter can read people and that's what Hold Em is all about, not the cards. One of my life's dreams is to have a poker game consisting of all recruiters. A man can dream can't he?....
