Posts Tagged ‘database’
Is job board advertising working for you?
The addiction that almost all Australian recruitment agencies have to running ads on job boards is like most addictions; one that is grounded in habit and impulse and rarely subject to any form of objective analysis. If that clear-eyed analysis was undertaken I suspect many agencies would change their approach to advertising jobs on job…
Read More‘Sorry, they are already on our database’ (Part 2): The solution?
My Lead Article in last week’s InSight #179 ‘Sorry, they are already on our database’: The lazy corporate rip-off generated a flood of emails directly to me as well as numerous comments on my blog. In less than one week it became my #6 most viewed blog post of all time (out of a total of 137…
Read More‘Sorry, they are already on our database’: The lazy corporate rip-off
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a consultant (thanks, Ben) which perfectly summarises one of the dilemmas that is increasingly being faced by agency recruiters everywhere. Ben wrote: ‘Recently clients have been increasingly insisting that if a candidate is on their system – whether they been there for 6 months or…
Read More‘It’s not my job’ and other lame excuses for avoiding CRM compliance
I don’t think it would be much of a competition if you polled recruitment company owners to discover the most under-utilised resource in their company. I am willing to bet that a large majority would nominate their organisation’s database/CRM system. What is the most compelling value proposition any recruiter can offer their clients or prospective…
Read MoreAre you leaking candidates?
It was the middle of week four in my new job. I was the third consultant on a three person temp accounting desk team. My Manager Bronwyn, and Michelle, the Senior Consultant, were finishing their weekly working temp calls. Bronwyn smiles at Michelle and says, ‘Time to call the sleepers!’ I…
Read MoreRecruitment Database Crimes – Chapters 1 to 14
I am a true veteran of the recruitment industry. This is demonstrated by the fact that the only database I used for my first three years as a recruiter was a manual filing card system. At Hays (or Accountancy Personnel as it was then called in the UK), there wasn’t even a card system. There…
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