What are you going to do?

Posted by Maureen Sharib
(When the new wears off and the old shines through?)~Clay Walker

Dr. John Sullivan writes, in Part 1 of 2 in his Monday, April 21, 2008 ERE article, The Future of Recruiting: It Won't be Anything Like Today (Tips for developing a future-oriented recruiting strategy):
"Current recruiting models place a large amount of their resources on "finding" or sourcing potential candidates. However, as a result of the growth of information systems and the Internet, the process of identifying or finding top performers and innovators is becoming increasingly easy. The new model will utilize new and developing information systems including social networks, consumer information, customer information, credit sources, niche job boards, professional association membership lists, and even sales leads to find prospective candidates."

Keeping in mind that even utilizing all of the sources listed only a small percentage (maybe 15%?) of the available workforce is going to be identified using those means. How are you going to get to the rest? This is a question all recruiting leaders (and Internet sourcers) should be asking themselves these days. If you don't find a way to do this (I suggest honing your telephone sourcing skills is the fastest and easiest way!) you're going to be left behind in this mad headlong dash we're all in.
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