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Through many experiences in recruiting, I am beginning to find that the use of the traffic-crazed Monster.com sites are inefficient and not recruiter-friendly. It is apparent that Monster translates s
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Using Your Pre-existing Applicant Resume Database more efficiently
posted at 1/19/2000 10:08 AM EST
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Through many experiences in recruiting, I am beginning to find that the use of the traffic-crazed Monster.com sites are inefficient and not recruiter-friendly. It is apparent that Monster translates success on the amount of traffic and not the success of actual matches. I am finding that many of the qualified or best candidates are already in your company's database.
My question to anyone with an appropriate answer is..."How do you keep your vast database of resumes and applicants in tune with your company?" We do send mass updates and reminders to our applicants, but is there any other methods out there? Look forward to any feedback. Gabe Halleus HR/Recruiting CRI Advantage, Inc http://www.criadvantage.com ghalleus@criadvantage.com |
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Using Your Pre-existing Applicant Resume Database more efficiently
posted at 1/19/2000 10:45 AM EST
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It isn't so much sending reminders about your company in those "mass updates," but rather targeting the message of those broadcast email messages to the needs of the people at the other end of those email addresses. From what I can discern your "updates" contain, I imagine you get a lot of recipients opting out of your distribution list, because that's not the kind of email they want.
Most people in this economy are passive job-seekers, not active ones. It's like timing the stock market to know when someone will be ready to jump to a new job. Instead, send them something useful every month that they will want to keep receiving. The goal is to give those people editorially-valid information that helps them in their current situation, not just about what may be the next job, such as: trends in their industry niche (software tools, marketing methods, regulations, case studies, innovations among potential competitor firms, etc.) and how to help them now (e.g., career management information like how to run a better meeting, how to project plan, etc.). Ideally, you create different versions of your e-newsletter by type of candidate, so the IT folks get something different than the finance people vs. the sales candidates in your database, etc. To learn more, I encourage you to attend one of the Advanced Online Recruiting Seminars offered by www.recruiting-online.com since 1997 which go into depth on such techniques. |
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Using Your Pre-existing Applicant Resume Database more efficiently
posted at 3/14/2000 5:08 AM EDT
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It sounds as though the key is to identify talent within your company and have the appropriate processes to enable internal movement.
Question....do you have effective internal posting and transfer processes? Technical employees often find it is easier to find jobs outside the company (moster.com, etc) than it is to find jobs within their company. Identifying key talent then building a skills inventory database is an important and costs effective business asset. We have built such a database and use it for business processes including sales, transfer of work, and resource allocation. EEs are incentivised to maintain their information by providing them opportunities to promote themselves for key opportunities, strategic teams, and transfers. dreed@agconsult.com |
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