Intermediaries navigate between two or more parties interested in a transaction to help them achieve a successful outcome. Two examples are in real estate and recruiting.
Market Diligence
Some clients we speak with here at GeneCoda® already have a front-runner candidate before their search launches. Often, companies find a prospect early on in the search process, which has come through advertisements or employee referrals.
Having a solid prospect is often welcome news because it ensures a quicker start. However, to ensure your company has located the best talent the market has to offer, it’s helpful to consider performing additional research to find more potential hires rather than go with the candidate who walks through the door first.
Connectors
Networking is the action or process of interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts.
One of the keys to networking is developing mutually beneficial relationships.
Job Descriptions
Like resumes for candidates, job descriptions are an employer’s chance to make a positive first impression on job candidates. Your tone, company details, and method of approach will determine how your candidates feel about your job posting, and by extension, your company.
N-of-1
You’re recruiting for an important position at your company. After all those applications, resumes, and interviews, you’ve finally whittled your shortlist down — to one person.
So naturally, you begin doubting your decision.
Let’s Make a Deal
If you’re around my age, you may have seen Monty Hall’s game show, “Let’s Make a Deal.”
If you’ve not experienced the show, the format of Let’s Make a Deal involves selected members of the studio audience, referred to as “traders,” making deals with Monty.
Hybrid Work Models
As employees have begun returning to office environments, numerous surveys and observations have been made concerning the “new normal” or post-COVID work environment.
These surveys tend to consider resource availability, productivity, and quality of life situations at a macro level.
The Purple Squirrel
Almost as rare as a Yeti sighting, the term “purple squirrel” is used by those in the executive search industry to describe a job candidate with the precise range of qualifications—the right education, experience, and set of skills—to perfectly match an in-demand job’s requirements.
The Trust Equation
Have you considered how trust relates to recruiting, interviewing and hiring?
I’ve recently finished The Trusted Advisor by David Maister, Charles Green, and Robert Galford and found one of its concepts to be particularly intriguing as its applications transcend client/service partner situations into other areas of life – including hiring and recruiting.
Always Be Recruiting
My wife works part-time at a bakery. Although they’ve had some turnover, they’ve recently experienced challenges with hiring staff.
We brainstormed a few ideas to help them get back on track, but the one that struck me the most was that they need to be recruiting all the time – whether they have a job opening or not.
