This is one we get on a pretty regular basis around here: how (or where) did you find me?
Answer:
Wouldn’t you like to know!
Just kidding, we almost never answer that way. We prefer variations on that pithy reply like: “Recruiters are crafty!” “A good recruiter never reveals her sources!” Or my personal favorite, “Magic!”
The truth is there are lots of ways recruiters find candidates—the most traditional of them being good old fashioned cold calls. Other methods include:
1. Referrals! Recruiting is a relationship-based business, so our greatest value is in our network, our ability to locate the people who aren’t lurking on the job boards or plastering resumes all over the internet.
2. That said…job boards aren’t completely useless and some are better than others. Most of the recruiters I know have made at least one or two placements using job boards, but unless they specialize in recruitment process outsourcing it’s not a great way to build their business.
3. Social Media and Online Networking. Are you on LinkedIn? You should be—after searching her personal memory bank and launching a few searches into the old database, a tech savvy recruiter’s next stop is LinkedIn.
4. Speaking of databases…most recruiting firms have a database. If they’ve been in the business for a while, it’s likely a pretty good one (or at least a pretty dense one). If you have ever talked to a recruiter, if you have ever gotten an email or a voicemail from a recruiter, your name, contact info and the details of that activity have been logged and shelved for perpetuity.
5. Miscellany: newsletters, Twitter, facebook, trade organizations, google searches and directories.
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