Saturday, August 9, 2008

Retro-recruiting

I had an interesting response on LinkedIn, from Marc LeVine, President of Integrity Consulting Associates, for my previous posting which asked about the next big thing in recruitment. He talks about leaving the recruiting basics alone.

I agree, has the good old ways of recruitment, which involved researching, "working" extensively with a candidate (irrespective of experience levels), positioning profiles instead of sourcing for requirements, value hiring instead of only volume hiring, are a thing of the past?

Marc also introduces us with 2 words - Retro-Recruiting and prides himself as a "Recruitsmith"

Marc writes - Recruiting is a "contact sport" and today's recruiters are too busy trying to build better mousetraps than focus on what works best, fundamentally. Too much time is spent playing on the Internet and chasing a pool of folks, who are already picked over and remain available for obvious reasons.

Any thoughts?

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