recruiting nightmare

The Recruiting Nightmare #7 – The Best Frayed Plans

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So I’ve documented all the challenges of getting out a good job post, networking, sorting through resumes, and so forth.  It’s pretty heavy stuff, and if you don’t work in recruiting I hope you understand a little better what recruiters go through.

Once a recruiter gets out the right job posting, once they network, once they find the right person, eventually it’ll all work out right?  I mean you’ll find the right person and hire them?

Well, possibly.  Oh there’s the usual challenges – you may not be able to get to them in time, or there’s a competing offer, or whatever.  But eventually it’ll work out.

Maybe – until someone changes their mind.

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The Recruiting Nightmare #6 – Here Comes The Resume Storm

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Some recruiters don’t get enough resumes.  I’m not going to cover that, because that’s part of the larger problem of finding people.

Some recruiters get the right amount of resumes.  Great for them.

Then there’s the resume storm, where a flurry of potential employees floods some poor recruiter’s inbox, website, profile, whatever.  Then this “fortunate” person with “many” options has to sort through them.

This is another part of the challenges facing modern recruiting. 

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The Recruiting Nightmare #5 – Networking Nuttiness

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Fine, fine, so making job postings, evaluating them, and getting them out is kind of hard and challenging.  So a recruiter can rely on networking, correct?

It’s easy to assume that.  We hear all the time that networking is the solution to us finding jobs – and in many cases it’s right (well, partially).  So it has to be the solution for recruiters as well.

Not exactly.

Networking relies on you connecting with other people who connect you with other people and so on to finding the right recruits.  Sounds simple enough, right?

The problem breaks down in that whole “other people thing.”  Networking only works if the people in your network do it as well, and do it well enough.  As is noted endlessly in job searches, seminars, books, and my own writing, a majority of people aren’t too hot at networking.

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