Name: How to Search for a Good Candidate - How to Recruit a Good Job Candidate (2 of 5)
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T04:50:48.000Z
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Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you

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to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. If you happen to be a recruiter, a hiring

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manager or an HR professional and you are currently hiring and looking for

people to join your company then you are in luck because today's episode is the

second of a five-week special series that I am doing right here on YouTube

and it's all about how to recruit and hire the best job candidates for your

company so if you've not been happy with the responses and applications that

you've been getting from just online applications then this video I am going

to be walking you through my four detailed steps on how to proactively

search and find that amazing job candidate to join your company

Ready to get the job you want? Top Notch Interview is coming soon! For more info

As a career strategist I've had the honour of being able to help numerous

professionals land their dream job offers and if this is something that

you're interested in working with me one-on-one I can give you details about

that at the end of this video now just be warned these following steps may

sound pretty basic to you but I am gonna give you insight into what more you

should be considering as you go through each of these steps finding a good job

candidate isn't easy and so you need to have a critical eye and know exactly

what it is that you're looking for and be able to identify it target it and

then get them in the door step number one be clear on what you're looking for

in a candidate this is the first tip that I give because in the past I've

worked with hiring managers who when you really probed them they really didn't

know what they were looking for in a good job candidate so you need to have a

clear image in your head of the exact type of person who on a technical and

personality perspective will fit in your company so go ahead and create a visual

of this person and what they look like in your mind but at the same time be

flexible because you may not always get what you're looking for in fact you

might even get someone who's even better step number two query the job title into

LinkedIn and filter the results now this should seem like the most basic concept

when it comes to finding a job candidate you just go into LinkedIn you type in

the job title and you see what LinkedIn pops up as results of people who have

that exact job title but what you don't want to do is just go down the list one

by one you want to be able to filter your results accordingly so filter

according to the location filter according to the industry the type of

company that they're currently working at you can filter on all different

things through LinkedIn and from there it'll help to

refine the search results that you get step number three when viewing the

profiles look for the right things so one of the first things that you want to

look for is how long have they been working at their current companies and

where were they working before this tells you how many years of experience

that this individual has related to the job that you are hiring for and the

quality of the work experience that they have as well so if they only just

started at their current companies likely they're not all that interested

in looking for a new job just because they already have a new job and so you

may not want to reach out to them on the other hand if they are very well

experienced and they seem to be a technical fit for your company then

reach out to them now if they happen to be working in companies and industries

that are completely outside of what you're really looking for then maybe

they're not a proper match for you to speak to now this next thing that you

should be looking for is something I actually just mentioned earlier and that

again is location for a lot of these top job candidates they're not only thinking

about the job itself and the company but also perhaps convenience for them

because if the job that you have happens to be halfway across town and it's going

to add another thirty minutes to an hour to their commute they may not be as

willing to consider that position so you really do want to look at where is this

person currently working from a physical location perspective and determine if

that seems to be close enough to where your location is that that they would be

willing to make the move and the last thing that you want to potentially look

at is their photo on their LinkedIn profile now I don't really need to

mention this because you're gonna do it anyways it's completely natural to want

to look at the person's photo and determine if maybe they could be a

potential fit at your company and finally step number four to searching

for the right job candidate is to LinkedIn message email and call them

when I was a recruiter I found that if I wanted to get my hands on a great job

candidate I had to do a little bit more than just connecting with

LinkedIn and sending them a light message I had to take the extra mile to

get in touch with them through their email INBOX and over the phone as well

because why well if they're that good they're probably not just getting your

Linkedin message but many others at the same time so in order to stand apart

from the rest you've got to take that extra mile and email them and call them

so that you can get in touch with them personally now a misconception that a

lot of recruiters and hiring managers may have that you may have when it comes

to hiring people for your company is that you think that current job

candidates who are working at their existing companies will be willing to

just up and leave their jobs for your job and that's not always the case

because if they're truly good employees then they're probably already enjoying

the job that they're currently in they're probably being well respected

and well compensated and so it would take a lot of effort a lot more effort

on your end to reel them in get them in for an interview and get them into your

company because remember this isn't just about hiring any job candidate it's

about hiring the best candidates that are out there so there you have it my

four steps on how to search and find the best job candidates for your role now if

you happen to be someone who's not necessarily a hiring manager but a job

seeker and you're looking for your next position you've been going on interviews

but you haven't gotten anywhere and you realize that you need one-on-one

professional guidance from me then feel free to reach out to my website

lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired read through the page fill in the

application form and from there if it seems that we are a potential match to

work together then one of my teammates will be reaching out to you directly so

if you like this video then please give it a thumbs up subscribe share it with

your friends thanks so much for watching and I will see you in the next video