Job Boards, Most Recruiters Are Lazy

To most of my recruiter, researcher, resourcer friends get to work. My pot has finally boiled over on the use of job boards. They are one of many, many tools to use. You are just hoping and waiting for one new uber tool to have that you can use without having to use the phone, email, or (stop the presses) meeting people face to face.

   

Get over it.

   

The latest post on the subject comes from Tech Crunch, Online Job Hunt 10 Years Later - Still Sucks.

   

Do job boards suck? I think most would say yes. For me, they are a great tool to use. Could they better? Absolutely. Should the recruiting industry stop whining about it? Yes. Let the visionaries and entrepreneurs work on the problem. In the mean time my recruiting friends learn to use them better.

   

How? Here are five things you can be doing to make the ROI on your job board better.

   

-Remember the resume you saw 18 months ago and the person was not quite qualified for the position? I bet they are now. Did you reach out to them about future opportunities your company would have? Do you have a system in place for them?

   

-Do you search for your former employees? For the good ones you find maybe the boomerang will work for you. Do you have a system in place for them?

   

-When writing a job ad are you doing the usual blah, blah, blah or are you getting candidates excited to hear more about your opportunity?

   

-Are you responding promptly to online inquiries? I hope so because if your customer service sucks I am willing to bet that the candidate is telling their four friends.

   

-Are you saving or in anyway storing the profiles of talented people that you are not looking for today? Many top candidates only have their profiles online for a few days before they take it down. They get inundated with inquiries and they take it down. You may be looking for a Project Manager today and in the process come across a Business Analyst. Do you have a system to save those for future searches?

   

Are you living and dying on the job boards? Are they your only source for finding candidates? If so, do some research into what others are doing. Things like e-newsletters, blogs, RSS feeds of job openings, and supporting/advertising/sponsoring networking groups, user groups, associations/professional groups, or related events where your future employees hang out.

   

The moral to the post is this, if you are not using the job board to its full potential shame on you for complaining. Worse, if you are one of the many that are waiting for that uber tool to make your job so simple that you can be paid and not have to work hard, quit now.

   

Recruiting is a contact sport not a paper pushing administrative career.

Comments

[Carl Chapman]

Great points. I'm surpised that ther isn't an "auto" follow up feature that is attached to recruting software intake modules. Not just an activity scheduler that you could adapt for the purpose, but an full fledged feature.

Also, my survey [http://s-ef73r-2918.sgizmo.com/] is designed to gather information about the improvements needed in job boards so that indeed some entrprising entrepreneur will actually do something about it!

[Justin Driscoll]

Great post because you made some very eye opening points about the recruiting industry. I mainly blog about career advice for job seekers but this type of post is very beneficial for job seekers to read since it gives them a look behind the curtain in some regard.
To most job seekers the whole recruiting process is long and very hard to understand. Your post gives us some light on some of the reasons why the recruiting process is the way it is.

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