Outside Sources of Candidates

• Informal Recruiting and the Hidden Job Market

  • Jobs are created and become available when employers serendipitously encounter the right candidates.
  • It estimates that perhaps half of all positions are filled informally (without formal recruiting)
  • This all applied for a new opened company.
• Recruiting via the Internet

  1. Virtual Job fair

  Pros: having a diverse selection of what job that you can apply,

  Cons: nature of job itself & discripancy between young and older ones
• Applicant tracking systems (ATS) - are online systems that help employers attract, gather, screen, compile, and manage applicants.
• Improving Online Recruiting Effectiveness

  A Compelling, Persuading, Convincing job description can attract pool of applicants.
• Advertising

  Employers should address two issues:

  • The advertising medium
  • The ad’s construction.
• The Media

  Constructing (Writing) the AD

  • Experienced advertisers use the guide AIDA (attention, interest, desire, action)
• Three main types of employment agencies:

  1. Public agencies operated by federal, state, or local governments.
  2. Agencies associated with nonprofit organizations.
  3. Privately owned agencies.
• Private employment agencies are important sources of clerical, white-collar, and managerial personnel.
• Recruitment Process Outsourcers

  • Are special vendors that handle all or most of an employer’s recruiting needs.
  • They usually sign short-term contracts with the employer, and receive a monthly fee that varies to the demands to the company.
• Employers increasingly supplement their permanent workforces by hiring contingent or temporary workers

  • Known as part-time or just-in-time workers.
• The Temp Agency - Same salary as employees but classifies them separately, as casual, seasonal, or temporary employees, and often pays few if any benefits.
• Outsourcing - means having outside vendors supply services
• Offshoring - means having outside vendors or employees abroad supply services that the company’s own employees previously did in-house
• Offshoring and Outsourcing Cons:

  1. cultural misunderstandings
  2. information privacy concerns;
  3. the need to deal with foreign contract, liability, and legal systems issues;
  4. and the fact that the offshore employees need special training
• Executive Recruiters

  • Known as headhunters
  • The issue is ensuring that the recruiter really understands your needs.