A recent discussion…
A young recruiter with three years of corporate recruiting under the belt replied with a list of typical boards and employee referals when asked how she sourced talent. When asked about the quality of the talent, the reply was fair but hard to find. And when questioned on the number of offer rejects, well she had not given the stat much thought.
Do you think most talent is not willing to put their resume online? Have you considered the number of calls talent receives from recruiters after they are scraped by Zoom, referred on Linkedin or sold on Myndnet? Have you considered that talent might want to remain confidential and in control of their information? Or do they appreciate their personal information ‘out there’.
In the earliest days of Internet commercialization there was talk of talent confidentiality…”the only way to keep talent confidential is to give them total control of where there information goes, when and who sees it” was the cry. Sounds like the plea of talent to recruiters over that old communication device – the phone…”don’t share my information without talking to me first”.
“Confidentiality? ….never thought of that”
Talent wanted true confidentiality then…do they still?
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This post was written by:
Hank Stringer - who has written 10 posts on Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion.
Hank Stringer has over two decades of experience as a successful high-tech industry recruiter, entrepreneur, and innovator in the use of information technology in the recruitment and employment process.
Forecasting a talent shortage in 1994, Stringer applied his energy and experiences to start Hire.com. There, he and a team of entrepreneurs created the first ASP business model, utilizing the Internet to scale and automate interactive recruiting relationships and processes. Under his tenure, Hire.com’s revolutionary approach dramatically changed the way companies such as Federal Express, BP, Allianz, Raytheon and Prudential recruit, hire, and retain talent.
Prior to founding Hire.com, Stringer was president and co-founder of Pedley-Stringer, Inc., a high-tech recruitment firm. Stringer previously served as an internal recruiting consultant for Tandem Computers and Dell Computer, where he was responsible for a number of special recruiting projects in the U.S. and Asia.
Hank is the co-founder of itzbig, an interactive sourcing network located in Austin, Texas and the co-author of Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business.
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