Lee Harding

Remote workers are sleeping on the job.

We all saw the article.

It’s costing companies a fortune apparently.

If you’re worried about employees sleeping on the job, you don’t have a work location problem you have a people problem.

Applied for a job but not heard back?

You might just be a “B List” Candidate.

When a recruiter (yes a recruiter, not AI) is sifting through all of their applicants on the ATS they quickly put candidates into two piles.

The “no-thank you pile” – these are the candidates who aren’t suitable and will get the automated thanks but no thanks email.

The “I need to call you asap pile” – these are the candidates who are a great match for the role, on paper at least.

But then there’s those applicants who don’t really sit in either pile.

The “I want to see if my top list of candidates are suitable before I reject you because if I reject you too early and my top list doesn’t work out then I can’t really then come back to you pile” – or the “B List”.

If you think you might just be on the “B List” then follow up with the recruiter.

I’ve had people who were on my “B List” drop me a message and I’ve spoke with them and realised they’re actually brilliant for the role – their CV just didn’t show that.

And that’s what I mean by B List. It’s not that that your skills and experience are second rate, it’s just that your CV probably didn’t showcase them as well as it could.

Follow up always.

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Recruitment is broken.

I’ve seen this in a lot of LinkedIn posts over the last few weeks.

Recruitment isn’t broken. Is it perfect? Not at all, but name me one practice that is.

Some companies do it better than others, some are terrible and some are great.

The reason it might feel broken right now is because the job market is brutal.

Internal Talent Acquisition teams are largely under staffed and under resourced, but they are typically getting a lot more applications per role than they ever have.

TA Leaders are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Hiring demand from the business is more unpredictable than it’s ever been, do they bring in more folk to their TA function only to find themselves over resourced in six months and having to make another round of TA lay offs or do they try and work with what they have until there’s a bit more certainty on demand?

But let’s be clear, the market is what’s broken, not recruitment.

#recruitment #recruiting #talentacquisition