Fishing for resumes

 
 
 
A common practice for savvy recruiters is to “fish” for resumes.  It is an easy thing to do and usually pulls in some interesting catches.  More times than not…. your competitor’s applicants.
What is “fishing” for resumes? 
Instead of placing a bunch of job postings, hoping the right candidates find the opportunities advertised, a recruiter simply purchases resume database access […]

The “not-so” ideal candidate


Who owns the jobseeker?

For some reason, along the way, a power struggle has emerged about owning the jobseeker. 
This quandary did not exist until the emergence of the Internet.  An advertising outlets’ responsibility was to advertise employer job vacancies to jobseekers and when a jobseeker replied to that employer, they accomplished their mission.
A newspaper would print the address or […]

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