If you don't periodically explore the website ere.net, you are missing a treat.
ERE is a site that focuses on recruiting in many different ways--there are daily articles from industry leaders, blogs, product information and discussion groups. Personally, I am fascinated by some of the discussions that occur.
A recent one involved the employment agency technique of doing rusing to find job applicants.If you are not familiar with the term, let me provide you with some examples of rusing.
Calling the switchboard of a target company, saying that you are a college student trying to interview someone for a paper who is the head of ________. What is there name and number??
Using the voice response system of target firm to collect names to call.
Meeting with a junior person in the department for an interview taht has little reason to occur accept for those few minutes where you ask them for an org chart of their department and where they fit into it for the sole purpose of getting the names of the others to call.
Sending a resume of someone witha terrific background to a non-client.
"They look good; let's meet them."
Oh, they just took another job, but I have a few others I'll send over to you. Tell me what you're looking for exactly."
The subject of the discussion is "All Great Recruiters Ruse."
So, let me ask you, if someone told you that they fond a job applicant in this manner, would you be happy? Would you been disgusted? Someplace in the middle?
Email me at thebiggamehunter@gmail.com and tell me what you would think if someone admitted to you that they did this to find your most recent hire.
Oh, by the way, after 35 years of doing search, my network and technology tools make this completely unnecessary.
Again, email me at thebiggamehunter@gmail.com and tell me what your thoughts would be if a recruiter admitted to you that they did this to find your most reent hire.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter Concepts in Staffing thebiggamehunter@cisny.com © 2007 all rights reserved. Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in many disciplines since 1971. He is a certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist. To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search for openings that The Big Game Hunter is working on, to use Jeff’s free meta job lead search engine, Job Search Universe, to learn about his VIP program, or to subscribe to Jeff’s free job hunting ezine, “Head Hunt Your Next Job, go to http://www.jeffaltman.com. Job Search Universe is also available at www.jobsearchuniverse.com To add your firm’s career page to “The Universe” email the url to jobsearchuniverse@gmail.com.
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