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In 2009, it's more resumes, less quality. What's a Recruiter To Do?

Submitted by bshorfer on Thu, 2009-01-08 11:39.

In his ERE.NET article of January 5th, 2009, Dr. John Sullivan stated [that there will be] “… a surplus of individuals available to work but a shortage of the necessary skills that the market will require… This skills shortage will at the same time bid up the price and the competition for the remaining available well trained workers in key positions.” I see this clearly in the IT search field and it’s certainly causing concerns and even some fundamental changes in our industry.
My question is to both IT corporate and 3rd party recruiters. How are you planning on handling this increase of volume with decrease of quality? What impact will this have on you day to day? What are some old proven or new evaluation methods that can help? Will this affect days to hire?

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different point of view - same old stuff

Submitted by Cooper on Mon, 2009-01-19 14:41. *

Is this just me, or do we talk and write about the same things year over year in recruitment? It's not breaking news that sourcing will be important in 2009 is it? Is it breaking news that candidate quality will be an important trend in 2009? I think not.

I am positive that if I picked up a recruitment article from 10 years ago, that it would be all the same stuff. Is there nothing original or fresh out there? If anyone knows of any recruitment articles or authors out there who truely take an out of the box appraoch to recruitment challenges and trends, I would really like to hear about them. I won't be holding my breath though.

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Recruitment challenges and trends 2009

Submitted by bshorfer on Mon, 2009-01-19 11:46. *

Great points Shane. Our Challenge internally is to accept that Quality is where it's at now. It is all about paying it forward by deeply understanding both the need and the candidate, building trust by beeing patient, relevant and persistant. Old cliches, but so true.

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Recruitment challenges and trends in 2009

Submitted by ShaneCreamer on Fri, 2009-01-16 12:16. *

Great post Boris. I agree that this will be one of the biggest challenges for recruitment professionals in 2009. At Granite Consulting, we have seen this scenario play out over the past couple of months. I think that the present and predicted labour market conditions will result in some "back to the future" trends in recruitment in 2009:

- narrower and more focused sourcing strategies. Posting out to high traffic job boards and such will diminish
- organizations will be revisiting thier ATS's ability to screen, rank, and filter candidates
- pre-employment skills and behavioural assessment will once again be a priority for organizations
- renewed focus on recruiter and hiring leader interviewing skills and techniques

I too would like to hear what others in our community have in mind to manage through a very different recruitment landscape in 2009.

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