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Recruiter Relationships: Job Search Essentials
Posted on December 12, 2007 at 7:32pm — 1 Comment
Recruiter Databases
Recruiters usually start their talent searches relying heavily on huge job boards (resume repositories containing hundreds of thousands of documents) using rudimentary tools based on simple SQL based queries to target keywords on your resume that may reflect on a desired skill set.
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Posted on December 1, 2007 at 1:09am — 7 Comments
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E-Mail has become a cold, impersonal, and ubiquitous tool that's frankly just become abused by too many people. Because they can send the same e-mail to 500 people as to 1, they do. Whether it's appropriate or not.
Part of the feedback I get -- and frankly, give -- is that if we can hold a dialogue via a 5 minute phone call, we should. We should meet, we should do face-to-faces, we should establish relationships. it isn't done the same way in an e-mail note, and there's too much room for misinterpreting one's tone, which in turn generates confusion and subsequently more e-mails.
There are multiple methods of communication. Blogging -- where the comments can form a more detailed conversation at a time when others obviously can read it and possibly participate, which is really the goal behind a blog anyway -- is just one. If you were discussing a role with me, or asking for a referral, I really wouldn't expect that to be from a blog posting any more than I would a public forum. In fact, I'm turned off by recruiters who immediately refer to Yahoo Forums to get hundreds of people to apply for their roles because frankly it's really lazy and disingenuous.
Agreed that methods and threads of communication are many. And there's usually one most appropriate for the type of message being issued. The trick truly is knowing when it will make more sense to pick up the phone, leave a voice mail, and have a chat versus simply assuming that the message will be understood.
Does that make more sense? Cheers!
As an It guy I don’t think phone calls are always an appropriate solution for every request. They are almost always distractions and can be ineffective and counterproductive – but HR people love them! And guess who has a great influence on the IT workforce buy decisions?
I like email and always have, but that’s not always considered genuine or human enough. With the new blogging technology, there’s even more opportunity to communicate – but is it personal enough? You tell me. Is this conversation between Steve and Andrew less genuine than a one-on-one phone call?
My guess is that a phone call may be made as a result of this conversation; one that would not have been made without this blog existing.
It is of course a personal mix for everyone that determines their success in communicating well with people at all levels. Communication is the most difficult skill to master no matter who you are.