Keeping Your Recruiting Pipeline Open
Posted September 19th, 2011
If you find that you are recruiting people routinely from the same companies or for the same kinds of positions, you may want to consider implementing what is known as a pipeline procedure. Pipelining allows you to have a list of possible candidates ready to go when you need them.
Pipelining is essentially recruiting now for openings you believe you will have down the road. Doing pipelining on a daily basis, for an hour or two a day, will enable you to stay ahead of the recruiting curve and have a stable of candidates ready when you need them.
There are a few important things to keep in mind if you plan to use a pipelining approach.
The first is to be continually coming up with the names of companies where you might be able to find job candidates. Each day you would be searching for more competitors from whom you might be able to recruit new people. You should at the very least be looking for two to three new companies each day. If you are on a team that is charged with finding new candidate sources, you can get the word out about your finds using a company network drive or an online sharing tool.
The next thing you need to do to make your pipelining successful is create a list of people. Using spreadsheets is the best way to do this, setting up easy to manage classification fields. For example, the list could include name, job title, company, location, contact information, and other notes. You can sort your lists by the person’s name and company. You also want to make sure you are getting all the people with the particular skills you are looking for.
You also want to create a list of social media resources on which you can focus in order to look for candidates. These include the most popular sites, such as LinkedIn, and others, including Plaxo and Jigsaw. You can begin with these sites and then look for others.
You also need to create contact information. A good way to do this, for example, is to split up the things you will need to do, spending one or two hours one day on creating a people list, another two hours the next day on creating a company list, and then finding contact information on those people the next day.
Pipelining can save you a lot of time in looking for potential candidates, allowing for quick recruiting.
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