Monday 5 October 2009

How much data should I transfer when changing systems?

Just catching on some of my regular blogs and I came up with a beauty by Booleanblackbelt

The topic covers really well from a very simplistic manner the difference between
  • Recruitment by just posting a job to a job board
  • Recruitment using you head

Everyone involved in the industry should remind their consultants that only 14 - 20% of candidates are actively looking at any point and will therefore be looking at the job posting and that everyone thinks they can do a better job than they can!

However as BooleanBlackBelt says today's active candidate is in 18 months a passive job seeker with new skills, so your CRM/ATS has lots of passive candidates in it that already know who you company is.

"I like job boards because they have current candidates in it, I only look for the most recent ones" is something I hear over and over again when I speak to clients about moving data to a new system.

My point is buy the best searching tools your money can find and make sure everyone knows how to use them, then train them again and again. In the market iProfile has changed its model, Burning Glass over Lens Match, Daxtra offer Search Station 2, Broadbean uses Burning Glass in Talent Pod and Actonomy has its own match tools.

Pick the best one for you and train and train again, Linkedin may not always be so open!