Recruiting Animal

Don't Focus Too Much

It makes you narrow minded

I wrote two conflicting posts. One claimed that concentration is the new competitive advantage and the other stated that focus is foolish....

... both make decent arguments. The problem is that they are both half-truths. They are both ideas that are true under some but not all conditions.

Is focus important? Sometimes. Maybe. It depends. You will never get anywhere if don't focus at some point, but if focus causes you to have tunnel vision then it will be your downfall.

from the BusinessPundit

Fully Loaded Recruiting

Recruiting to the max

The Recruiting Roundtable says that the maximum workload for an internal corporate recruiter is 11 to 20 positions at one time.

Beyond that point, the quality of the work deteriorates as do the hires. And it takes more time to fill the jobs.

I find 11 to 20, a huge range. What accounts for the variation? Maybe the difficulty of the searches involved.

See Dave Manaster for more

Update: Gretchen says: I know of few software companies which allow their recruiters to carry a req load of 11-20 open positions.

My Comment: When I think of an active search it means one for which I don't have the candidates yet.

I can see handling that many positions if very little work was involved on each one. For instance, for some the search is over and the short listed people are working their way through the interviews.

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Track Online Resumes

Microsoft Style

Here's the compressed instructions.
See Stroud for the nice, detailed, illustrated version.

You see a page you like online. Get notified whenever it is updated.

1. Click Favorites > Make available offline

2. Right click on the Favorites Link you just made > Select properties > Make page available offline > Download > When this page changes, send an email to >add your email address and mail server info (find them in Outlook's Account Settings) > Apply >OK

This is fun. It's worth checking out.
You can also create a short-cut key for the page.