{"id":667,"date":"2007-02-02T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2007-02-02T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T09:00:12","slug":"the-role-of-the-recruiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"The Role of the Recruiter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks about I wrote<\/a> about technology being a more powerful source of job loss as compared to outsourcing.\u00a0 This was picked up by the Recruiting Animal<\/a> with a question: \u201cWill Automation Kill Recruiting?\u201d\u00a0 My thought is that automation won\u2019t kick recruiting, but perhaps there\u2019s some other form of change in the works.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember what session this was in, but it was probably in \u201cCreating Meaningful Connections\u201d (which I actually didn\u2019t attend).\u00a0 Some of the discussion however was about recruiters, their contacts and networks, and who those contacts belong to.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ((From the Talent UnConference, January 25, 2007.\u00a0 Ideas expressed in this post may be directly attributed to the TalUnCon or might have been triggered by a discussion there.))<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the role of the recruiter is in part to create a relationship with the job seeker.\u00a0 Good recruiters have large networks of a specific type of talent pool, and that makes them attractive to you as an employer.\u00a0 Hiring a recruiter can increase the talent pool you have available.\u00a0 Losing the recruiter can cause the reverse effect.\u00a0 So while the role of the recruiter may be to create a relationship with the job seeker, I\u2019d suggest that this role of the recruiter is mis-directed.\u00a0 Instead of creating a meaningful relationship between the recruiter and the job seeker, the goal should instead be to create a meaningful relationship between the employer\u2019s value proposition and the job seeker.\u00a0 In this case, the recruiter is only a conduit.<\/p>\n

But the recruiter as conduit is problematic as well.\u00a0 If only a conduit, then does the theory that recruiters with large networks of meaningful connections dissipates?\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure that these relationships I talked about, between the EVP or the recruiter, are mutually exclusive.\u00a0 The recruiter must be able to form a relationship with the job seeker in order to be valuable.\u00a0 On the other hand, if the recruiter is not tying job seekers to the current employer\u2019s EVP, they simply are not effective at their job.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019ve written often about the EVP, or what I call the employer brand, it is basically what attracts an employee to the employer.\u00a0 So I\u2019d twist the question from \u201cwho is the relationship with, EVP or recruiter?\u201d to \u201cis the recruiter a tool of the EVP, or vice versa?\u201d\u00a0 Clearly, I think that the recruiter\u2019s network should be levered\u00a0 ((\u201cLeveraged\u201d is not a word.\u00a0 The proper verb is to \u201clever\u201d.\u00a0 Just a pet peeve.)) to bring job seekers to the employer\u2019s EVP.\u00a0 However, this also suggests that the EVP is the highest power, reinforcing the role of recruiter as conduit \u2013 although necessary conduit.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I like controversy \u2013 bring it on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks about I wrote about technology being a more powerful source of job loss as compared to outsourcing.\u00a0 This was picked up by the Recruiting Animal with a question: \u201cWill Automation Kill Recruiting?\u201d\u00a0 My thought is that automation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-branding","category-talent-acquisition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}