Candidate Pipelining
Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting Part 4
In Ben Franklin’s the Way to Wealth, he talks about the issues associated with carrying unnecessary inventory, “You call them goods; but, if you do not take care, they will prove evils to some of you…You expect they will be sold…but, if you have no occasion for them, they must be dear to you.”
If Ben [...]
Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 in this series, I explored many of the intrinsic limitations and hidden costs of traditional candidate pipelining – sourcing, screening, and “keeping warm” candidates for which you do not have a current need.
To recap, traditional candidate pipelining:
Is a “push” based strategy that is not based on an actual customer [...]
Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I explored and challenged the practice of traditional candidate pipelining.
Some people may have interpreted my last post on the subject to mean that I don’t believe in any form of proactively building candidate pipelines. That would be incorrect. Anyone that really knows me knows that I am not a [...]
Candidate Pipelines vs. Just-In-Time Recruiting Part 1
Last week I wrote about how I learned to use Boolean search to leverage information systems to quickly source candidates, and I challenged the concept and practice of building candidate pipelines.
Amybeth Hale commented on my post (thank you – you inspired me to finally write this one!) and mentioned that she was puzzled by the mention [...]
