Look Me Up Sometime: Lookup Tools for Recruiters
There are no shortage of sites and resources for looking up stuff about people online. In no particular order here a few resources that have been referenced in recent BROWN BAG RECRUITER webinars…
Top 15 Common Secondary Sourcing Mistakes
- Over analyzing resumes
- Running overly generic/basic searches
- Making assumptions about candidates from their resumes
- Not spending at least 10 minutes search strategy before you start
- Seeing each resume only as a potential match for the position you’re working on
- Assuming search finds all qualified candidates
- Searching only resumes posted within 30 days when searching major job boards
- Not calling candidates that appear to be under- or over-qualified
- Submitting the first 2 -3 candidates you find that fit your job/hiring profile
- Thinking that the major online job boards have poor quality candidates
- Thinking that after searching you’ve found all the candidates
- Relying solely or heavily on title-based searches
- Not using the NOT operator
- Only using skill/tech terms
- Spending 80% of your time using low-yield resources
Source: Glen Cathey
Hiring Salespeople and the Economics of Failure
Here is the slide stack from a recent AMG Executive Briefing that discussed the impact of a poor sales hiring process…
Download the worksheet: “Calculating the Cost of Bad Hires”
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