Managers, Recruiters, Tools – Which Way is Up?

For as long as I have been a hiring manager, I have been faced with the problem of getting the right candidate for the open req – or reqs if I was lucky. Back in the day – you know before online job sites, resume scarfing/scrapers, and formal in-house onboarding tools suites – we had a notebook (the paper kind!), a pen, a spreadsheet, limited e-mail capability, and the phone and a FAX machine. If you wanted to get a candidate into the queue, you contacted your HR Team for the approved list of “head hunters” and you started collecting resumes. Alas, the fun begins …

On the other side, the recruiters that I worked with back in the day were troubled every single time they began a new relationship with a hiring manager. There is really no nice way to put this, but, more often than not the HR Team and their hiring managers weren’t very clear or helpful in making the relationship work. Recruiters were saddled with tons of paper needing to be sifted through, having to make keyword-based searches using tools ranging from the well developed to the really clunky, and these sites and tools not being very recruiter savvy. Let’s face it, our recruiting teams continue to face these huge challenges today, and they can really use support! Alas, newer tools hit the market …

Today, there are so many tools, so many sites, and these solutions are huge and expensive requiring considerable tweaking to get it right. Often I hear from both hiring managers and recruiters that we really haven’t matured. True, these web-based services (SaaS) or heavily entrenched corporate tools (say, Oracle/PeopleSoft) have made great strides in organizing the candidate pool, providing accountability to keep candidates moving through the system, and even giving everyone an easier way to get the candidate into the company (onboarding), it’s still a very inefficient system and relationship.

Is there really room out there for another tool? Is there truly a very simple process, based upon some “old school” approaches, that can make the relationship flourish? And, hopefully, can you provide me with this tool, at a very competitive price, and help me get what I need, regardless if I am the hiring manager, the HR Team, the recruiter, the senior executive, or even the candidate?!

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