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Two recruiters, Bob and Susan, walk into a bar and sit down for a drink after work on Monday. One table over are some engineers who are venting about their manager at company XYZ. It's clear that are not happy with their manager.

 

The first recruiter, Bob, finishes his drink and leaves the bar. The next morning Bob checks out the engineers on LinkedIn, Google and ZoomInfo. Once Bob finds an email address for one of the engineers he sends that engineer a request to connect on LinkedIn and then forward some job descriptions to the candidates using Jobster. A day later, one of the engineers opens the Jobster email but does not apply to the job or forward it onto anyone. Bob emails the engineer and asked if they can have a phone conversation the next day.

 

When Bob gets the engineer on the phone he begins to tell him about some position he has open that might interest the engineer. The engineer tells Bob he appreciates the call, but he just accepted another job.

 

Bob asks, when did this happen?

 

The engineer says, on Monday night a recruiter by the name of Susan sat down with me and my co-works over drinks and told us about some positions with great managers she works with. She invited us all into her office the next day to meet with the managers and I decided to accept an offer on Wednesday.

 

The moral of the story:

Today?s recruiting tools are great, but once you identify someone who might be good just walk up to them and say hello.
 
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  • 1 point 3 years ago

    That does it, no more in depth reviews of hot new recruiting products. Why is that my 600 word blog posts with screen shots and comments from my conversation with the creator receives the same number of comments you'd expect to find on a New England Journal of Medicine article about rodent response to low light levels (in out words, NONE) and this one gets everyone chatting?

    Isn't this a great example of why the subject line and opening description on a job posting needs to have some sizzle?

  • 1 point 3 years ago

    ...if it was an engineer approached by a beautiful female recruiter in a bar, well, sure, of course he is going to listen to any job offer she has. =)

  • 1 point 3 years ago

    ... you would think the second recruiter would of seen the bar :)))))

  • 1 point 3 years ago

    Nice one Scott.

    My motto has always been "just do it" whether it's saying hello or making that call.

    Do sourcers work late on a Monday night? :-)

  • 1 point 3 years ago

    How it can work is Bob excuses himself to the restroom, IMs the Internet sourcer on his team from his PDA, the researcher spits back useful background info on the 3 engineers in 5 min., and then Bob can better engage and impress the engineers in his conversation with them before leaving the bar.