Candidate Relationships - Again

Hi everybody and welcome back.

Trying to catch up with everybody and picking up on blogging. Note that Louise over at UK Recruiter has set up a page of various bloggers that she reads - cool idea and thanks Louise for having me on the site.

Noted a new blogger on her site, Liam Dowd who wrote a blog about Pleasant Recruitment, great to see someone else jumping on my soapbox beside Keith Robinson. The more the merrier!! Speaking of Keith, we have both started to write more on the Dutch site that we have been involved in creating, Kangarooster - the Dutch site will launch in early Feb, but already worthwhile to check out the streams, which are in both English and Dutch.

Also so a stream from Gerry Crispin of Career X Roads, as prep for his and Mark's newest Source of Hire Survey. Check out these key points (and my comment as well).

We speak with dozens of staffng leaders privately before we start and are still amazed, even today:

- how little confidence staffing leaders have in their source of hire data.
- how few specific sources (versus categories like "print" or "internet") are actually collected.
- how poorly the ATS designs are to enable recruiters and recruiting leaders to improve their data integrity (as opposed to how wonderful the reports of fatally flawed data look)
- how few are the firms who can convert traffic to hires
- how no one is able to collect and analyze the synergistic effect of multiple sources of hire.
-how infrequently the self-report data is confirmed or checked by IP source, recruiter inquiry, or onboarding survey.
- how few the firms are that perform ongoing business anayses on their sources and alter their subsequent investments as a result.
- how much data (5%) is missing even among the best of firms.

That's it for now, lots of other new blogs out there, as well as some interesting stuff from the original guys like Tim Elkington, Mike Taylor and Peter Gold talking about strategies for success.

Best wishes for a happy, successful and healthy 2007 to all.

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