"There must be a better way!"

 

It's a thought that requent crosses the minds of most recruiting and HR professionals on the corporate sides they struggle to fill the openings that loom before them.

 

"There must be a better way!"

 

Certainly, sifting through resumes isn't the better way.  Job boards simply opened the spigot.  No, its more like it opened the fire hydrant and our job is to drink from a fire hose.  There are so few . . .so very few qualified people who apply.  Don't applicants ever READ job descriptions?  There are so many . . .too many . . .resumes.  Is this what I went to college for?  To waste my time . . . .my life . . ..reading the resumes of people who are clearly not qualified? Clearly they have proven they either do not or cannot  read the position description.  Now the thought shifts between:

 

"This is its own special kind of Hell"

 

and

 

"There must be a better way!"

 

There is a better way.  If you are not finding the people you need through job postings, simply become proactive by targeting passive instead of active candidates. (That's what we do at The Good Search: see www.thegoodsearchllc.com )Why leave it up to chance that the person you need will simply swim by your job posting and be seized with the impulse to apply.  Targeting ideal candidates is faster-better and costs less.  It is a no-brainer. Moreover, when you target people who are right for the job can demonstrate due diligence, candidates, which makes hiring managers very, very happy. 

 

So stop the insanity. Stop wasting your time and start living again by taking control of your search destiny.  Proactively go after ideal candidates and you, your team, and your hiring managers will be so much happier because you will succeed like never before.