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Is Recruiter work be measured Qualitative or Quantitative ...

This question that pops me when i ask my colleagues on their recruitment work  ,mostly i get response on quantitative they would say i did 8,10,16,24 ....50 , it is wonderful to hear big numbers every month that makes a person super hero recruiter  ... But if we look deeper in the numbers the quality of work is done might be less because i see various factors like pressure to get the position full filled, peer pressure to beat competition ,make more money ,be a top notch recruiter etc.. the list goes on.. For me Recruiter to be defined as artist with abundant creativity to trace people but even for me the artistic guy hides some where when it comes to numbers and focus myself to achieve numbers that is what we do always on our day 2 day basis and our bread and butter depends on it ... Any one might ask this recruiter with creativity is fade . No it is not but one thing we miss is the blending of creativity while doing our work in achieving numbers Let me say an example w

Inhouse Recruiters taking support from Vendor(Agency) : Healthy or Timebound ?

I would like to thank you for all the support you have given to make this blog running for 6 years now and it has given me more responsbility to make this blog more useful and simple ,thanks to you again for your reviews,thoughts and appreciations . My best wishes for this Glorious year 2013 . For a long while i didn't update on recruiter blog  as i went on sabbatical for some time also to know other aspects of Human resources will share those interesting experiences over the time. One thing that keeps hitting me as internal recruiter  is taking vendor support ,yes i did and everyone else has well taken support from agencies to close positions when you are in internal hiring where their is lot room for more activities apart from sourcing, (viz) preparing reports,meetings, talking to new hires ensuring they are in safe habitat and also day-to-day HR issues where in almost your 9 hr /12 hr day job is occupied and less time spent if you want to do sourcing... That is where we take