Comments on: Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting Part 4

By: Jerry Davis

Jerry Davis — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:27:36 +0000

Glen, I completely agree with you, and LOVE the LEAN application to your hypothesis. I started out cold-calling oil and gas engineers to recruit them, and I scheduled them for calls back about every 90 days. It was nuts, but I wanted those “warm” relationships.

Now I am very much in the JIT camp, and feel very comfortable simply marketing MPC’s and recruiting star players as I come across them.

Thanks for the good article.

By: Dorothy Beach

Dorothy Beach — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:41:41 +0000

Gosh Glen I didn’t see this until just today. What a great series that has evidence of lots of thought and experience behind it. Coincidentally I am writing about the flexible workforce with some of the very same ideas. However I disagree with you on one point in particular and that is the need for recrutiers to become “boolean black belts”. I see this becoming less and less of a need as search engines become intuitive to our search patters. Yes, in order for a smart engine to learn from us we have to start out with boolean strings right now. In the future, and I don’t think it’s far off, that won’t be necessary either. Your comment on this is appreciated.

By: Deirdre Gerber

Deirdre Gerber — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:23:01 +0000

Glen, you are my HERO! I have long held the EXACT same opinions on candidate pipelining and/or “footprint” recruiting, for the exact same reasons you have detailed in your articles. I have forwarded your articles to my manager!

thanks,
Deirdre

By: Jeremy Langhans

Jeremy Langhans — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:25:24 +0000

OK – I am ready for a new topic …
You should write about Social Web Sourcing!!

… we just made a Hire off Twitter yesterday
*happy dance*

By: Marsha Keeffer

Marsha Keeffer — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:24:13 +0000

You’ve given some compelling arguments that show JIT recruiting can be of great benefit to candidates, recruiters and hiring managers. The time-savings alone could be worth it. Technology gives recruiters the tools to make JIT a reality.

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Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting Part 3 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:58:22 +0000

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By: Gary Cozin

Gary Cozin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:36:03 +0000

Great points, Glen! Similar analogy/example is with DELL. Although they do have PC in inventor ready to go, they usually build the PC to customer expectations ‘WHEN’ needed = no WIP/inventory!