Recruiting is getting more complex. It used to be that a “full service recruiter” would have a phone, a Rolodex and their sales pitch. They would spend all day finding great talent and then pitching that talent to clients (i.e. hiring managers). Many a fortune was made in this simple way with these simple tools.
Full-service recruiters still exist of course. But increasingly the recruiting profession is becoming more complex and specialized. In addition to recruiters, we now see coordinators, sourcers, researchers, communications specialist and brand evangelists. As the competition for great talent has heated up, recruiting organizations have responded with innovations that would make your head spin.
This is important for you to understand because if we are going to get you to be brand talent then you need to know who will be looking for you, and where they are going to look. That’s why you need to know about researchers, and that’s why you need to know about Shally.
Researchers are the tip of the spear, the computer and phone jockeys who are constantly trying to uncover the great people that aren’t going to the career sites or being talked about by hiring managers. Researchers make their living by understanding ...
