Headhunter Diaries ~ Networking. Slow Clients. Google.
My subject line says it all. 
Actually, this week I’m doing a couple of networking events. One was this past Monday night with the UEF forum and one tonight with the GSATC Tech After Five. Tonight’s networking event will be my first time there so I’m looking forward to it. I’ll post some thoughts on it tomorrow probably.
Secondly, slow clients. This business can move fast. It can move slow. I have a coworker that found a candidate today and the company wanted to interview the candidate this afternoon. That’s fast. Me on the other hand, I get a great candidate and the client does one interview and then tells us the process is on hold till May. Argh! Then for another search I’m doing I also find a great candidate (I only find great people..not good. 
) and the company still hasn’t called to interview the candidate after almost 2 weeks! Argh! This is frustrating to me as a recruiter because I might lose my candidates to another firm or job. Frustrating for the candidate because they are expecting to get an interview but are stuck in this waiting period. Come on people (clients)! You hire us to find great talent and present them to you. Don’t dilly dally around and take your time to setup interviews. It’s unprofessional and a waste of everyone’s time.
Ok. I’m done with my little rant. Thanks for letting me ramble a bit.
Onto good stuff with Google. I’ve been trying some creative searches in Google recently and have had some pretty good success in finding resumes of passive candidates. For example, try this search - filetype:doc “insert title here” you’ll probably get a nice page list of resumes with the title you are looking for. It’s a great way to find some passive people out there besides using the traditional CareerBuilder/Monster/Dice system.
Got any good search tips? Feel free to post ‘em here!
