Recently we were lucky enough to hire a couple of new recruiters onto our team at HRU, which I love to do because having newbies on the team brings some fresh energy to the recruiting floor. At HRU we do the Hilary Clinton approach to training - meaning "it takes a village" - everyone gets involved. I'm reminded every time we hire a new recruiter that we in talent world have some language that is uniquely our own. So, I wanted to share some of my favorite recruiting words and my personal definition of each:
Internet Recruiting: Using the internet to search for candidates. You use this when you're too intimidated to use the phone.
Post & Pray: Corporate recruiting
A Waffle: A candidate that is going back and forth on deciding on whether or not to accept your offer (if you have a Waffle - you didn't pre-close well enough). You can also call this type of candidate an Aunt Jemima (which goes well with a Waffle).
Pre-screen: A 3 minute phone conversation or email response, seeing if the person is an actual person or a resume bot.
Boolean Logic: More stuff that keeps you from actually recruiting.
Employment Brand: What Corporate recruiters focus on, so they don't have to do actual recruiting.
Talent Community: One more thing for corporate recruiters to waste time on and not recruit.
Pre-employment Assessments: $75 tests that tell you what you already know about the candidate, but didn't want to believe.
Talent Management: A fancy phrase to attempt to make the job of getting your employees to perform, seem more technical than it really is.
College Recruiting: 4 hour job fairs on-site a college campus's that get corporate recruiters out of the office to find the same candidates they could get by just putting up a job posting on the college's career services site.
Social Recruiting: Spending work time updating your Facebook status and getting people to fill out recommendations for your LinkedIn profile, so you can get a new job.
Ok, I kid - that's what I do! I think it's important in training new recruiters to understand everything that recruiters can do to track down great talent. What I come away with every time we hire someone new - is that there aren't any silver bullets in recruiting - yet, we are always out their trying to find one.
Recruiting at it's essence is the ability of one person to talk another person into why working for company A, is better than what they are currently doing. It's really that simple - and that difficult.
Tim Sackett is the EVP of HRU and has over 18 years of corporate HR and Talent Acquisition background working with Fortune 500 companies. Tim speaks nationally on the topic of Talent and probably likes to hear himself speak more than anyone. When he's not talking, he is probably bugging the recruiters on why they aren't on the phone - and yes, he really does look like Richie Cunningham from Happy Days ...connect with Tim.
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