January 2008
7 posts
Use Resumes for Passive Searches
When an employed candidate puts a resume into a database, they are expressing their desire to talk to someone on the outside. They are willing to look outside of their current employment. They understand that the best way to explore other opportunities is to start some conversations. The resume is the conversation-starter. It’s almost a guarantee that employed candidates with their...
Spend Less with SourceSimple
As the economy continues to slow down (the 4th quarter of 2007 was the worst quarter for the economy in 5 years), employers and recruiters are looking for ways to spend less without compromising their forward progress. SourceSimple offers a very good solution. Employers and recruiters can use SourceSimple baseline sourcing campaigns rather than paying for the staff and resources to do the work...
New 'Search Only' Option
Many of our clients already ran advertising before retaining SourceSimple, so they weren’t interested in the job posting portion of our baseline sourcing (BaSo) campaigns. Until today we used an ad hoc approach to this situation, calling the search-only campaigns ‘Modified Network Campaigns’. Starting today we have a new option on our campaign proposals called ‘Search...
Keep Longer Campaigns!
Though SourceSimple changed our campaign lengths from 10 days and 30 days to 7, 14, 21, and 28 days, any client who wants to keep the 10 day campaigns for $30 is able to do so. We are grandfathering all ‘active accounts’ to maintain the longer 10 day campaigns, if desired. ‘Active accounts’ include all clients with pre-paid packs of discount campaigns or with monthly...
Greater Flexibility in Campaign Lengths
Since our launch in 2006, SourceSimple offered clients 10 day campaigns and 30 day campaigns. The 30 day campaigns were priced at the then-maximum standard discount of 15% off. Starting January 1, 2008, we are pleased to offer our clients greater flexibility in campaign lengths and deeper discounts for longer campaigns. Our new structure is: 7 day campaigns 14 day campaigns : 10% off 21 day...
Monstrous Improvement
At the beginning of December 2007, SourceSimple started to include resumes from Monster in all campaigns. That means that every baseline sourcing campaign we run for our clients contains a complete sweep of all three major general databases — CareerBuilder, HotJobs, and Monster. Initial statistics support an approximate 20% overlap in resumes from the three sources. Thus the inclusion of...
Welcome to 2008!
Today marks the beginning of the second calendar year for SourceSimple. From an idea and a basic website in fall of 2006, SourceSimple has grown to become a stable resource for hundreds of recruiters and employers. We still have a long way to go, and we strive to improve every day. We believe this is the beginning of something that will make a truly important contribution in the field of talent...