Tag: Sourcing

Does Winner Take All in the Tech Resume Sourcing Game?

On By Vinayak JoglekarIn RecruitmentLeave a comment

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“ I don’t really search for a job. All I do is to update my profile on Naukri and I wait for the calls – and believe me, I get more calls than I need” – A Developer with 4 years experience.

There are several job boards or web-sites where companies can post the open positions. But candidates – particularly the good ones don’t really “search” – they passively wait to be found by a recruiter. So it can be safely concluded that a developer or a tester with less than 10 years experience would default to this model. I thought that “Naukri” is where most recruiters would go to search for prospective candidates.

To learn the recruiters’ story ; I conducted a survey. Here are some insights based on the responses received from 36 IT recruiters.

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IT Recruitment – Are Companies Walking Their Talk?

On By Dinesh GokhaleIn IT recruitmentLeave a comment

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Social hiring, employer branding, using AI, online assessment tools, creative hiring, proactively building hiring pipeline based on forecast, X-ray search … the list of hot topics being discussed by HR and Talent Acquisition professionals is very long. But are we just discussing these in seminars and conferences? How many of us are trying new ways of hiring? Or are we more comfortable with status-quo?

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My Experience at TASCON’17

On By Guest AuthorIn Recruitment1 Comment

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When I got to know TASCON’17 is happening in Bengaluru, I made sure to book my flight and a seat in the event. This was the first ever TASCON event there with a great line up of speakers and an opportunity to network with folks from Bengaluru and learn a lot of new things. My expectations were raised when I saw the turn up on the day of the event and I must say TASCON’17 lived up to it.

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The Slow Death of a Recruitment Sourcer

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It’s ironical that I’m posting this piece right after #tascon17 (talent acquisition and sourcing conference). After yesterday’s sessions at the conference and meeting with a few industry sourcing stalwarts, I’m forced to rethink the future of sourcers in recruitment function. I’m not exaggerating when I say the title of recruitment sourcers (sourcers as known in the recruitment parlance) will be non-existent by 2022.. perhaps by 2020 itself!

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