Readers Share Real-Life Solutions to Today’s Biggest Recruitment Challenges
Thanks to everyone who – in response to last week’s “We Ask, You Win” contest – shared their company’s biggest challenges in recruiting and retaining workers. You gave us some great feedback, and I’d like to share some of those answers with the rest of our readers.
Challenge: “I have too many resumes to sort through.” The influx of resumes recruiters and hiring managers are receiving right now can be both a blessing and a curse. As one reader puts it, “It’s great to have lots of choices [as far as resumes go], but the burden of time spent on this can be touch to manage.” (Burden might be an understatement: One reader reported receiving as many as 800 resumes for a recently advertised job opening.)
Solution: “With the economy the way it is anyone and everyone applies for jobs regardless of title or description,” says reader Michelle, a source of frustration for many readers. Michelle gets around this challenge by pre-screening applicants by asking them to answer detailed and specific questions. Customized screening questions saves you time by enabling you to quickly distinguish between those applicants who actually meet the qualifications for the job and those who are simply “applying to anything and everything in hopes of the chance of just finding work,” as reader Shannon Crone put it.
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Excellent post. I personally think that job boards are not the best use of time in searching for a job. They are time consuming and produce little success. Hours upon hours can be spent researching open positions and submitting resumes getting limited to no responses. I have been out of college for about 10 years now and in that time I have not known a single person that has actually obtained a position through a job board. Most people I know have found jobs through networking.
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Posted on 9. March 2010 at 17:43