Do you like to go after a candidate as soon as you see their profile or do you like to know more about them, cultivate a relationship and then bring them to the table?
After this session, attendees will walk away with
- tools to find and connect candidates- ATS, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc.
- When it might be a good idea to get straight to the point and when you might want to wait (Layoffs, stock-market changes, IPOs etc)
- How do you choose the right strategy while working on active positions
- Personal success stories covering each situation
3. A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME…
• Lives in DMV with her husband and GSD, Ava; is a fan of all things Space and I believe
that the earth is round.
• Recruiting for over 10 years in IT, Healthcare, Consulting.
• Loves learning, and sharing how to create better candidate and hiring manager
experience, sourcing tricks.
4. EARLY MISTAKES WHICH STILL MAKE
ME CRINGE …
• Jun 2003- Candidate: BK: My first hire ever …3 months later he quit.
• Sept 2008 – Candidate PR: Sent him a message about a perfect role for him… his
response was “NO- you didn’t treat my wife right!”
• “Lets connect in 6 months”
• Contact 100 candidates/ day
5. “DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM
DO UNTO YOU”
• Make the time.
• Do you research.
• Honesty is the best policy.
• Follow-up and follow-through.
• Meet IRL.
• Be the people connector.
• Mohammad goes to the mountain.
• Make it personal.
• It is ALWAYS about them- the candidate, their family and their career
6. BUT I DON’T HAVE TIME…
• Create a Excel, access, word document, CRM
• Classify candidates – Hotlists, Notes, Tags, anniversary reminders.
• Silver Medalists and future fits – be a coach.
• Talk to your hires - Every. Single. One.
• Future calendar invites
• Share with them relevant meet-ups, conferences, communities, webinars.
• Send updates to your network about what YOU are doing- personal and
professional.
7. LETS TALK TOOLS
• Tracking candidates: Zoho, SmartStart
• Automatic Scheduling: Calendly, Simplybook.me
• Candidate Research: Prophet II, Hiretual, Connectifier on Linkedin, coderstats and
Octohunt on GitHub, Seekout, Search is Back and Intelligence Search on FB
• Notes: Trusty fountain pen and notebook, Evernote, OneNote, GoogleKeep.
How many times have we met a candidate who is a perfect fit for a role that we have open today but is not looking for new opportunities now or you wish you had stayed in touch for a position you opened … and its just been a few weeks since you last spoke to the candidate. Today’s session is to share with you my mistakes and lessons learnt during my journey of hiring some awesome folks but also telling candidates personally – this is not the right role/ sorry the team decided to hire someone else, and can still call them to share opportunities that are right for them…not a open position but opportunities that will interest them.
When I go into the reddit channel where people talk about recruiters- it is very depressing. There are lot of us who are trying to change this one candidate at a time (and with over 500+million people on Linkedin, its changing a lot minds) and today I am here to share some of what I have learnt and what I am doing.
The time with the candidate is for them. Everything else can wait till the conversation is over.
We do live in a litigious society.
-Wednesday and Friday afternoon is decided to touch-ins.
Some candidates might find opportunities through your network- share them (after you get permission)