The JobSync Blog
Is It Time to Take a Break from Recruiting?
November 18, 2011
Recruiting is just like dating: Sometimes it’s necessary to take a break before you find that perfect person.
It can take months to find that ideal candidate for a position when using traditional recruiting methods. But if the wear and tear is beginning to take a toll, this could undermine a hiring manager’s judgment in finding that perfect match. At some point, this will waste not only a company’s time and resources but those of candidates as well.
However, the pressure to fill a job often clouds one’s judgment with respect to suspending one’s recruiting efforts. Not sure if you’re burning the candidate candle on both ends? Here are three easy ways to tell:
1. When you find what appears to be a fairly ideal candidate, you set aside that person for the moment and continue your recruiting, convinced that there must be someone better out there. Just like a serial dater, you have a tendency to keep dating at any cost, even at the risk of losing someone who’s a pretty good fit for you.
2. You have become so fed up with trying to hire someone that you are ready to throw in the towel and hire someone who seems half-decent. Just like the exhausted dater, you are ready to settle. And since when did settling ever result in a good pairing in dating or the professional world?
3. You are tired. And yes, we mean physically tired. You can’t bear to look at another resume. You don’t want to keep recruiting but you don’t want to hire the next person who comes through the door either. In other words, you’re so exhausted that you’re paralyzed.
Pressure and politics may not always give you the option to halt a job search for any significant period of time. If your company will not allow you stop, at least step back and reevaluate your recruiting efforts. Is your company’s online application conducive to attracting the best candidates? Do you need to better define the job posting wherever it’s listed? Are you hiring for skill, or is this position better served by hiring someone with the right attitude? Most importantly, have you checked out JobSync yet?
So try and recruit yourself some kind of break from job candidates. You may just end up getting the break you were looking for all along.
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