Posted by Andrea Poldoian on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 @ 08:21 PM
Employers and candidates put professional recruiters in play to improve their success rates
Of all the things this recession is supposedly about-a collapse in housing, lax oversight, too much spending, too little spending, you name it-none is more central than jobs.
Bring the jobs back and, ‘Poof!' the recession is over.
But, job seekers and hiring managers know that's not going to happen anytime soon. We are stuck in a perfect storm of employment gridlock. On the one hand employers are faced with a deluge of resumes which are submitted seemingly without any relevance to the skills required for the job, while on the other, applicants-even the highly-qualified ones- find themselves victims of the avalanche of resumes employers receive.
To help dig their way out, increasingly, both sides are turning to professional recruiters, and here are a few reasons why:
Employers
- See value in outsourcing to recruiters the painstaking task of sifting through piles of resumes, thereby freeing their own staff to be more productive
- Gain time and save money by only meeting with candidates pre-screened and pre-qualified by the employment agency
- Draw on the deep talent pool of proven performers recruiters cultivate across multiple job searches
- Enjoy a lower interview-to-hire candidate ratio due to the quality of candidates provided by the recruiter
Job Seekers
- Watch their chances of landing interviews and getting hired improve dramatically
- Enhance their interview skills with professional coaching from staffing consultants working with them
- Improve their job search results when recruiters provide guidance on how best to work with resume-filtering software
Mitigate the chances of falling into the ‘black hole' that the direct application process has become by leveraging the relationships established by the recruiter with hiring managers.