Fri
Feb
1
Economists seem to believe that a recession is on the way… either a recession or a slowdown which will put a damper on everyone’s day. One of the datapoints pointed towards is a 4.9-5% unemployment rate. This is a high figure for the United States. It signals that 5% of the workforce is not working.
But look at it from another angle: 95% of the people in the workforce have a job! If you scored 95% on a test in school, you’d be overjoyed. 95% is a pretty high number. It means that when you walk down the street and a huge crowd of 100 people walk past you, only 5 of those people don’t have a job. 5 out of 100 ain’t so bad.
Will this affect your business as an employer or a recruiter? Definitely. Does it mean recruiting will cease altogether? Definitely not.
95% of the population is employed. Life hasn’t stopped. Businesses haven’t stopped. People are working. Jobs exist. Recruiting must exist as well. There’s less money out there, so everyone has to spend less. The recruiting must go on, but it just has to be done with less money.
External recruiters fill a vital function that employers can’t do without. They tap vast candidate networks and utilize extensive candidate development prowess to locate and land the perfect candidate. However, there may be less recruiting work out there than before, so recruiters may have to cut back on expenses. External recruiters can let SourceSimple handle the baseline sourcing function, saving quite a bit of cash and allowing efforts and resources to be focused on client relationships, passive candidate search, and candidate development.
Employers with parse internal recruiting resources who want to compete in the same market as powerhouses may be looking for inexpensive ways to ramp up their recruiting efforts. SourceSimple provides the resources and manpower of a much larger organization without the risk and overhead of doing it yourself. It’s a very reasonable solution at a very inexpensive pricepoint.
There are, I’m sure, ways to save money that don’t involve SourceSimple… but for some reason I can’t think of them right now. =)
Wed
Jan
30
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 resumes online will talk to you when you call them. In other words, they are the perfect entry point for a passive-candidate recruiter/sourcer to gather information about a target company.
When you start a passive search, ask SourceSimple to send you resumes for current employees of your target companies. Call up the candidates and interview them, even if they aren’t perfect for the job. Ask them whatever you want to know: who is their boss? what project are they working on? etc. You’ll be amazed at how much information you’ll receive.
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 in-house. We use all the industry-standard resources (CareerBuilder, HotJobs, Monster, and more). All day, every day, we advertise and search for our clients. To use in-house resources to get the same results we deliver, you’d have to spend thousands of dollars per month.
SourceSimple campaigns start as low as $30 for 7 days of baseline sourcing. No long term commitments, no overhead, no risk. It really is the best deal in the recruiting world.
Fri
Jan
4
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 Campaign’ — we’ve been running these campaigns under a different name for a while now, so it’s great to have an easier and more intuitive method for clients to request this level of service.
Tue
Jan
1
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 subscriptions. Simply make sure that the account always has at least one campaign in it, and you’ll be able to refresh the account with 10 day campaigns in the future.
If you don’t currently have an active account with $30 10 day campaigns, it’s not too late to get one. To ensure our clients are afforded the greatest level of convenience and flexibility, we are keeping the option open for clients to purchase a pack of discount campaigns. This option will be maintained on this page of the site until Sunday, 06 Jan 08.
Here’s the URL for the page: http://www.sourcesimple.com/lastchance.html
If you would prefer a monthly subscription, please send us an email with the specifics of your needs and we’ll work out the best solution.
