Top 15 Common Secondary Sourcing Mistakes

Posted on December 17, 2008 
Filed Under Recruiting by Numbers

  1. Over analyzing resumes
  2. Running overly generic/basic searches
  3. Making assumptions about candidates from their resumes
  4. Not spending at least 10 minutes search strategy before you start
  5. Seeing each resume only as a potential match for the position you’re working on
  6. Assuming search finds all qualified candidates
  7. Searching only resumes posted within 30 days when searching major job boards
  8. Not calling candidates that appear to be under- or over-qualified
  9. Submitting the first 2 -3 candidates you find that fit your job/hiring profile
  10. Thinking that the major online job boards have poor quality candidates
  11. Thinking that after searching you’ve found all the candidates
  12. Relying solely or heavily on title-based searches
  13. Not using the NOT operator
  14. Only using skill/tech terms
  15. Spending 80% of your time using low-yield resources

Source: Glen Cathey

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