Candidates who submit their resumes online to job boards, or what they believe to be direct to hiring authorities, run the risk of three common problems. These include:
Number One: Who reviews resumes submitted from the internet? Usually, it's not an executive or the immediate hiring authority. Many times, screeners have no industry expertise in the key attributes they're screening for. Many companies hire part-time or temporary employees to screen (and discard) potential candidates. Qualified, established recruiters use industry expertise and a phone call to screen qualified candidates. Good recruiters take the time to speak with many qualified candidates before setting the parameters on who to move forward with.
Number Two: The internet does not screen qualified candidates. Matching candidate needs with corporate hiring requirements is hit or miss through the internet, depending on which side of the screen one sits. A candidate becomes only as good as the corporate screener reads and understands the resume - nothing more.
Number Three: Once submitted through the internet, recruiters add no value to any candidacy. If recruiters try, their efforts are viewed as self-serving or as a desperate move on the part of the candidate or as a trick to "smooth" over a perceived shortcoming of the candidate's credentials. None of these achieve the desired result of screening qualified candidates, interviewing potential employees and matching hiring needs with candidate needs.
Need the number of an executive recruiter who "gets it?"
About the Author: Brett Stevens is founder and President of The SearchLogix Group (http://www.searchlogixgroup.com). Brett has enjoyed remarkable success in the executive search business in the fields of Software Sales, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Distribution, Warehousing, Transportation, Six Sigma, Technology, SEO, Affiliate Marketing, Database Marketing, eRetail and CRM. You can email Brett at mailto:brettmstevenspr@searchlogixgroup.com or telephone him at 770-517-2660.
7 Quick Marketing Tips To Uplift Your Profits 1. Publish an ezine. Your ezine will help you to stay in touch with your visitors, sell your products, and promote affiliate programs you've joined to your subs...
Trading For A Living - Part 2 In part 1 of this article I started to look at the financial implications of giving up the day job to instead start trading full time for a living. There are mo...
Escape the Credit Card Death Spiral If you're tired of all the bad news in the mail and nasty phone calls, you are probably in the credit card death spiral. There are ways to escape it.
Marketing Discipline and the Joy of Success Does a person have to make a choice between being the fabled lazy grasshopper or the hardworking ant to succeed at marketing? Building a business and a regular ...
Three Steps to Achieving Your Health Goals Do you have a health goal that you have struggled with, over and over again? Do you dream of the day you are healthy and trim? Follow these three steps to help ...
Being A Victim Is Always A Choice Are you making a choice to be a victim? Although you've probably never thought of it as choice, that's exactly what it is. What are the costs and the supposed b...
Refinishing A Hardwood Floor Want to bring your hardwood floors back to their former beauty, but don't have the money? Then read on for some tips on how you can refinish the floor yourself...
How To Choose The Right Resume Format After a thirty (30) second glance lots of resumes get thrown into the wastebasket. One of the reasons this happens is because the resume writer has failed to us...
Why Breakfast is Good for You Have you ever heard the saying that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day"? It has almost become a cliche. People keep repeating it without knowing t...
The Myth of What We Manage Perhaps it is merely semantics, but an underlying problem I find that people have as it relates to the success in their life lies in a proper understanding of w...
Reasons Why People Usually Dont Buy Again Why don't people buy the second time from you? Some things
you have control over and some you don't. Here are ten
items you have full control over that affect...
How to Brief a Marketing Agency A new client recently emailed us a brief here at Mano Design. It was very brief brief indeed. All it said was, "Can you write me some copy for a postcard?" Resi...
Take Your Good Idea One Step Further Writing down your ideas not only helps you clarify your plans or goals, but also helps you communicate what you want others to do or think.
What Does Vision Have to do With Creating Confidence? Vision is one tool that we can use to bolster our resolve and strength when our reality has not yet caught up with our desires, when anxiety comes despite our c...
Print this page