She comes to you.
Super-Recruiter, Dave Staats says candidates who initiate a contact with a headhunter are useless.
Over 90% of the people who have approached him do not produce placements. In the past 5 years an approach by a candidate resulted in one deal. He makes his money by accessing candidates who aren't actively looking for a job.
Source: Fordyce Letter
Every year there is a hot new technology that promises to deliver passive candidates to your doorstep.
Monster is a proven resource. Linkedin makes people tons of money. But most recruiters don't know how to use any kind of database search engine well.
Shally doesn't recommend long search strings. He recommends a search that takes ten minutes or less.
Shally claims no contact manager is robust enough to handle the hundreds of thousands of contacts recruiters must have to do their jobs well.
Maureen Sharib, the Queen Bee of Telephone Sourcing, is leading real time chats about telephone sourcing on her new Magic Method social network. It's terrific.
If you think my claim is mere social boosting, check it out and see if you disagree. There's no charge and you can see the transcripts of the chats here. (Scroll down the page till you see the yellow Magic Talk bubbles).
Days: Tuesday and Thursday
Time: NOON Eastern Daylight Savings Time (New York time)
www.thesourcingconference.com
The Newsletter is The Source. But why do they have a newsletter if they already have a blog? SourceCon2008: Grand Hyatt Buckhead, Atlanta, Aug 17-18
Questions: Amybeth Hale, Research Princess
He has a sourcer grow-op now.
Madonna invited Elvis to
The Recruiting Animal Show.
That's right, yesterday, for a number of reasons, I didn't have a guest or a panel scheduled for my weekly show. I was going to cancel but then thought, "Hey, I'll move ahead anyway and see what happens." Actually, I had prepared a little talk in the manner of Jim Stroud's pal, Otis Collier.
Maureen Sharib, however, had other plans. Without telling me, The Madonna of Telephone Sourcing invited Shally Steckerl, the Elvis of Internet Sourcing to be a surprise guest on The Recruiting Animal Show. In fact, I was so surprised I didn't have much of a chance to be surly until Shally left and the focus turned to newcomer, Tina Winner, who specializes in placing temporary executives on contract.
You can listen to it here.
And if you would like to join The Recruiting Animal Show LinkedIn Society, just lick here (or click here). As you choose.
Noon: Geoff Webb, contract recruiter,
tells us about his job hunt
12:30: The Telephone Sourcing Show,
Call in with your sourcing questions
Featuring Maureen Sharib & Pam Simon
It's here via Amitai Givertz great run-down on the week that was on Recruiting.com
animalized version. original here.
I am not a junior recruiter. I have no desire to be a recruiter. I love the hunt of going out and finding contact names and finding the unfindable people. I find pleasure in that.
Jim Stroud: You sound pretty angry.
Amybeth Hale: I am angry, Jim. I'm sick and tired of having researchers trivialized and misunderstood. It's a common misconception that research is easy. A lot of people think it's just going into job board databanks and just harvesting resumes. Research isn't just that, Jim. It's a lot more. A lot more.
You have to really have a passion for it. It takes a while to really learn and it's probably the most time consuming process of the whole recruiting life cycle to work.
Jim Stroud: Get it all out, Amy. You can speak to me, girl. Pretend I'm Oprah.
Amybeth Hale: It's okay, Jim. I'm done. I just want to tell all the kids out there, the best advice I could give someone who wants to be a researcher is to find a good mentor. They can show you where they screwed up and help you to avoid similar errors.
Jim Stroud: Cool. Listen I've got a new section on the show. You can say hi to people you know but might never have a chance to meet face to face.
Amybeth Hale: Okay. I want to send some shout outs to my fellow bloggers. Joel Cheesman, Guy Kawasaki, Shally, Dave, Rob McIntosh, Moises Lopez, Paul Wolf. Who am I missing? [The Animal?]. You've got to excuse me. I'm really tired. I've been baking in the sun all week trying to get as good a tan as... Karen! How could I forget her. Hi Karen.
Animal: Amybeth told us that technology can really speed up the process by automating something that she would do on Google herself. Do you agree with that?
Suzy Tonini: Yes. There are some tools that do help out immensely if you have a lot of searches and you don't have a lot of time.
Animal: The key is not that they can find more people than you can on your own but that they will do a lot of the tedious, heavy-lifting for you, is that it?
Suzy Tonini: Yes. You can do some overnight searches and the next morning you can have some results in your inbox.
Animal: Amybeth, do you agree with her on that?
Amybeth Hale: Yes I do
Harry Joiner: The learning curve on some of these products is very high, do you agree?
Suzy Tonini: Yes.
Amybeth Hale: It takes time to learn it. If you don't take the time to learn it, it's going to be useless to you but if you take the time to learn it it's a very valuable thing.
Source: 28 minute mark, The Recruiting Animal Show, 07.08.22
How many of you are on LinkedIn?
Maureen Sharib: Someone spoke last night to 32 MBA students and asked them "How many of you use LinkedIn or know what it is?". Only five or six raised their hands
Harry Joiner: Really, that's surprising.
Maureen Sharib: When I go on site to do training in telephone names sourcing when I ask them how many of you know about LinkedIn a handful of people are on.
Harry Joiner: I love this business!
Maureen Sharib: And they're recruiters
Harry Joiner: What a great business! I mean, God, where ya been?
Animal: At one of the recruiting conferences, JGo asked his audience how many people read blogs. Four or five people put up their hands. Not many. And that's pretty interesting in terms of what Nik just said about the future of recruiting being online. It might take a while.
Harry Joiner: How many people subscribe to The Fordyce Letter? The Fordyce Letter is just an an unbelievable resource. I can't believe that anyone would be in this business, as tough it is, and not subscribe to The Fordyce Letter. Likewise, I can't believe that recruiters don't know about LinkedIn. That just seems crazy to me.
Animal: These are corporate recruiters Maureen is talking about.
Maureen Sharib: Not necessarily.
Source: 52 minute point, Recruiting Animal Show, 07.10.10
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