From the course: Recruiting Foundations: Recruiting for In-House Recruiters
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Proactive vs. reactive recruiting
From the course: Recruiting Foundations: Recruiting for In-House Recruiters
Proactive vs. reactive recruiting
- If you want to attract the best talent for your hiring managers, you can't wait for candidates to respond to your website or job board postings. The best candidates are often working and they're not conducting an active job search, but they will consider a new opportunity if it represents career advancement. Before you begin to proactively recruit, be sure to identify your top priority requisitions. What jobs are critical to your hiring managers? The ones that have the greatest impact on the company's ability to achieve goals and hit deadlines. Review the performance objectives of each job to understand how your candidates will be evaluated, if hired. Lastly, understand the culture and values of the department and team. You may find a great candidate, but if they don't fit in, they could become a costly turnover statistic. Most recruiters make the mistake of having only one goal in mind when recruiting, converting…
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