Recruiters World

I want to share common experience which you would have faced at all times,getting calls from recruiters where they start telling the job opening whether your in right place to listen,most times we get to hear job positions while at restrooms Why it is so...? I don't say it is a budding recruiter even senior recruitment professional do this at all times,even i heard from my friends that they given interview at restrooms which is very pathetic to hear,. One thing is most recruiters don't have ears to listen and all they want to fill positions which is not right way to do... Three things to follow 1) Ask 2) Listen 3) Valuable 1) Ask - Ask right questions to the candidate ,ensure and check with him whether he is in a position to talk , if he says yes proceed , if not check with him best time to call back /you can share your mobile number  to call him back , Thumb rule : every candidate is valuable as gold , don't loose at any cost ... 2)Listen- When g

I was working through couple of my internal positions stating it is niche skill /passive or hiding and are not visible in any job board as most of the professionals  are happy in their current role except few who look for better pastures. Now every recruiter has this question ... How do you find these Passive  Professionals who are hiding .. Long time back  when i was new to recruitment, one of the organization where i worked they don't have job portals ,what they taught me is look beyond sourcing resumes away from these sites, be creative,use internet ,try to do networking with professionals,meet people in tech seminars and most important dont sit in office and source resumes , this will not happen,which is true. What they practiced and taught me is of passive recruitment and that helped me to do till now not working thru portals,meeting people at seminars,keep myself about latest niche ones,sourcing thru social media etc. I understand it is hard fact to go and meet peop

Many times i used to get responses from potential candidates when they are looking for opportunities abroad,hiring managers/recruiters calling them at odd hours and some started interviewing them without asking them whether the candidate can discuss or not ,based on this most potential resources are rejected in the interview ... This is because most recruiters/hiring managers don't look at time zones ,it do happens either wise calling from India to other locations, usual response i see we are running under pressure to get resources but we don't think when calling the resource at this odd timings without prior notice we are giving a candidate a bad feeling about your organization. Agreed that we are all under pressure to recruit,first thing please ensure the candidates knows that you are calling,this is not being done most times a) First send a mail/phone communique to shortlisted candidates to check on availability and here don't push him/her    ,do negotiate timings as th