Jason Gorham - Founder & CEO CareerMetaSearch.com - Sharkstrike.com

1st Annual CareerMetaSearch.com Recruiting Industry Disruptor Awards

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I was reading the latest Business 2.0 magazine, and the issue was dedicated to the most influential people in regards to Web 2.0, and the article got me thinking about recruitment and who the movers, shakers, and disruptors are in our industry. I don’t like the word influential, as I believe it’s too hard to put everyone into that category (no offense to the good people at Biz 2.0.) So I started brainstorming the idea with my business partner Snoopy the beagle (yes my dog) and realized I needed the help of my vast reading community.

Here is your challenge, if you choose to accept it. CareerMetaSearch.com is launching the 1st Annual Recruiting Industry Disruptor Awards. The awards are open to any product, or influential person in the space you feel has disrupted the space to change, enhance, make better, or just make interesting. One award will be given for each category. You noticed I said award, as we are all winners. We encourage you to vote for new nominees and new categories, as we need some help with this. We will be finalizing the date, place, and time to announce the awards, so stay tuned.

I have created some categories, and placed people I felt may be a good fit for the category, and the distinction of being a recruiting industry disruptor. Please click on the link to view the categories and people, and to add new people and categories.

Any company’s people or vendors that would like to donate prizes, and or gifts, please contact me directly to help sponsor the awards. Thank you.

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Every week I receive 3-5 emails about companies that can do my sourcing for pennies on the dollar or you will see a pay per click ad that says hire a recruiter for $1000.00 per month and it got me thinking from our customers perspective why they hire us and not someone else.

I thought I would share some insight on how to pick your next name sourcing, resume database mining or candidate profiling company and be happy with your results.

1. Cost – We all know the expression you get what you pay for but in this case buyer beware. If you ready to send your sourcing overseas then get ready to do a lot of quality assurance on the work that is sent back. Labor is cheap overseas and yes that’s what you get is labor. You aren’t getting a qualified person that understands your needs, you’re getting a person that is not thinking and just taking direction. If you go this route be prepared to spend time on your results.

2. Experience – Before selecting the company find out what type of experience the actual sourcer has? How long have they been in recruiting, do they know the industry or do they know the lingo? Can the caller understand them or do they have an accent?

3. References – Have the company provide references to you that you can qualify. Most of our business is repeat business and it’s because of the quality of work. So make sure you can speak with someone that will vouch for the company and the quality they provided.

4. Time Expectation – Unlike going to Monster and sourcing resumes Name Sourcing and Name Profiling take a little longer. Make sure you know what your buying and the time line in which it will be delivered. Our Name Sourcing doesn’t take as much time as Name Profiling but when we conduct our Name Profiling we make sure that our clients understand that it could take as much as a month to complete the entire project.

5. Years In Business – Find out from the company you are reviewing how long they have been in business. This will give you an idea on their quality. I have seen companies come and go and it’s because of the their quality, client satisfaction and employee turnover.

These are just a few of the things to keep in mind when sourcing for a sourcing company. I hope that they will help you understand who where and what your buying.

Cheers.

Jason Gorham
CEO
Sharkstrike.com

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I met with a client today and it dawned on me that most clients don’t where their work is coming from. Most recruitment marketing agencies or recruitment advertising agencies are just outsourcing their work. Don’t get me wrong not all of them are of this practice but I have been on both sides of this, from getting the client and then going through a recruitment advertising firm to finish the work or that the recruitment advertising firm will come to me to quote their work.

This isn’t a bad practice it’s just a practice that you as a client should be aware of. Not only are you paying a premium to that agency to manage your account but your also not sure where the work is coming from. Also if there is a problem with the work you go to them they go their outsourcer. Most of the time the work that is outsourced has a mark-up placed on it whereas if you did a little digging you could have dealt directly with the resume sourcing company or name sourcing company.

So here are a couple of questions to ask prior to engaging a recruitment marketing company to handle services for you.

1. Do you outsource any or all of your work?
2. Can I contact the company directly or receive references from the company that you will be using?
3. Will I receive a discount if you’re not completing the work yourself?
4. How long have you been using this company and will the work be completed in the United States?
5. What qualifications does the outsource company posses if any?
6. What percentage of your work do you outsource?
7. What in-house resources do you have to perform this work?

These are just best practice questions to ask an recruitment advertising agency, as with CareerMetaSearch or Sharkstrike all of our work is performed in-house including video, name sourcing, interactive marketing and resume database mining. Buyer beware.

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