Headhunting on Job Portals: How Do You Successfully Find the Right Candidates?

Hi all,

Can you please let me know how to headhunt from job portals?

Regards,
Tejas

Hey Tejas,

I just wanted to know if I got you right. You mean sourcing profiles from the job portals, right? Now, that comes with a bit of practice. And when you keep doing it, you will know the basics. Whatever your search mandate is, try breaking it into small parts. For example, if you need someone for Event Management, then you need to think about "Direct marketing", "Roadshows", Interactive marketing!! The reason is that these search mandates will only work if the candidates have put their search nodes! You need to think from their shoes and then try hitting the right search word. Otherwise, what will happen is if I search for event management, then the site would throw me profiles containing C, C++ :-)

I hope you got a bit of an idea.. take care, pal.

Sunil

Dear Tejas,

To headhunt for your company, the job is simple. Make a list of competitors of your company. If you want to search a specific company, for example, Infosys, type the company name in double quotes "Infosys," and then search skill-wise. For example, if you are looking for Java developers or ASP.NET developers, type the specific skill, and so on.

First of all, make a list of direct competitors; that is the basic step in headhunting. Also, check whether the salary range of your competitors matches with your budget.

Happy headhunting.

Regards,
Suresh M.G