Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Helping Recruiters Source Smarter

No matter how hard recruiting executives work at the strategic level to focus resources on more effective sourcing channels, in the end recruiters are ultimately the ones who are doing the sourcing.

Recruiters need to follow high-ROI sourcing practices to gain the cost and quality benefits to sourcing smarter. This includes having access to data that shows how positions have (truthfully) been filled in the past, as well as new trends and tools that could potentiall make sourcing easier in the future (e.g., new LinkedIn Recruiter tool). Do recruiters have insight into both the history and future of sourcing at your organization?