It can be said for any occupation that efficiency is everything, but I think it is especially relevant when you are retained to develop leads for a client. I cannot tell you how much time I have wasted over the years due to miscommunication between what a client wants verses what they say they want verses my giving them what they asked for originally. Eventually, I learned a simple but powerful truth that helped me to protect my sanity and maintain a solid client relationship. What’s that?
Recently I was in a conversation with my old friend Karen Mattonen about Sourcers vs. Recruiters. I heard her rant about how as recruiters we were sourcing before Sourcers even existed and how recruiters who do full life cycle recruiting are better because they do all 30 steps in the recruiting life cycle. First let me say that I enjoy my conversations with Karen, she is passionate about so many things, but sometimes she gets so worked up on her topics of passion that I feel like half way across the country I can still see the veins popping out on the side of her neck as she puts all her might into her discussion.
FREE LINKEDIN AND MORE
In this publication I have detailed the techniques I use daily in my never-ending search for talent. Although these techniques are advanced, I have made sure to introduce them at a step-by-step, beginner level. The internet tools I talk about are either free or very low cost compared to internet advertising. If you learn and master the techniques found within, you will soon have built a solid understanding of internet recruiting.
Finding and hiring top recruiter talent is the toughest search assignment to work. It is also the most profitable. You will receive a fee for a successful search assignment; however, a successful placement of a recruiter in your firm will create an ongoing annuity based on the increases in sales, client development and an increased candidate database. Further success will be realized in the internal momentum and synergy among your recruiters that comes with the addition of another productive recruiter.
Read more: Successful Recruiter Hiring: Realities and Actions
TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY TIDBIT
I stumbled over this incredible little maneuver a few months back (just clicking away on everything like usual), it’s very easy to master. You will be able to find most company email patterns with little or no cost in a matter of minutes.
Read more: Tidbit 1, 2011 – JIGSAW - Find Email Patterns Fast and FREE - ROBBING THE GRAVEYARD
