Better Recruiting
Anonymity Challenge for Passive Seekers
Today, I listened to Peter Clayton’s Total Picture Radio interview with Jim McGovern of ItzBig. In the interview, he addressed something in a way–I am embarassed to admit–I never fully grasped before:
The Anonymity Problem for Job Seekers
The simple fact of the matter is, the Recruiting Industry has long been too sympathetic to the employer or hiring manager, and far too hard on the seeker.
Regularly, I have HR/Hiring managers confess to me their worst sins… like throwing out a whole stack of resumes or deleting their whole “candidates” folder in their email program “on accident” because they needed to clean up space on their hard-drive to make room for their grandson’s little league photos.
At the end of the day, I do believe job-seekers work too hard to have their careers tossed into black holes, set to puree, and hopefully something turns out at the other end.
More than that, McGovern is right–truly excellent, talented candidates who are currently employed can’t afford to be found looking around. In an economy like ours where “bouncing back” from being fired would be relatively hard… passive candidates need better tools to keep their identity private when job-seeking until they are ready to reveal it.
ItzBig’s subtitle says it all: “Be Found — Not Found Out” I wish them all the luck.
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May 6, 2008 at 7:21 am
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