Recruitment Is No Longer Just About Recruitment Consultants, Thankfully...

I saw a blog post by the MD of a major recruitment company discussing how it was the preserve of recruitment companies to find people jobs

. The comment was, "People find people jobs, not job boards".

I thought it worth while reposting my thoughts here because it is basically all we are all about as a company...

Agreed, people find people jobs, not job boards, but those "people" no longer have to be traditional recruiters, but the hiring managers and the applicants themselves.

The internet is about empowerment, you no longer rely on a travel agent to book your holiday, nor an estate agent to find your house, why should you solely rely on a 3rd party to find your job or hire your staff?

With the correct use of job boards, social media and a robust ATS, direct hiring managers can build and manage their own talent pools without a primary need for traditional introductions, whilst applicants can research and engage with companies directly.

Certainly, there will always be a need for highly skilled recruiters who build and "re-sell" their niche talent pool, particularly in the temp/contract sector. But the majority of recruitment today is managing large volume responses to job board advertising and effective CV database mining, coupled with the utilisation of relevant social media to create and manage talent pools.

Who are we? NetNatives are a recruitment company, but we take a different approach to developments in technology (not just job boards & social media, but open and social web sourcing tools), enabling clients to directly engage with passive and active candidates (and vice versa) to build their own talent pools, not ours. We advertise, search (job boards and open web), contact and manage candidates applications for our clients - in one case hiring 10 people (average salary 25k pounds) for a campaign that cost 575 pounds. All the time, feeding back responses to EVERY candidate and providing clients with effective management reports on which methods were successful, encouraging them develop their own strategies. Why do we do this? Well, why shouldn't we?

I, naturally, hesitated posting this on a "traditional" recruitment company's blog, but thought it important to highlight that recruitment IS about people, but, thankfully, it's no longer just about recruitment consultants...

oh and I didn't even discuss SEM/SEO strategies or effective social media advertising.

by: Steve Evans

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