Uncover Talent Where You Least Expect it - 5 Crowdsourcing Tactics

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Hard-to-find talent isn’t interested in submitting resumes or engaging with career sites. These are busy people, deeply focused on a project or idea. Reaching them is not only difficult — it’s often next to impossible. Crowdsourcing may hold the answer, but it is not a panacea nor is it easy. It requires the recruiter to have highly relevant, specific, and engaging content, a fast response time, and solid technical information. In this webinar Kevin will discuss several strategies to make crowdsourcing practical and how to use different techniques to improve candidate supply and quality.

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Uncover Talent Where You

Least Expect It:

5 Crowdsourcing Tactics

Presented by Kevin

Wheeler

July 2014 for ERE.NET

Trend

s & Is

sues

38-40 million fewer workers with a college/postgrad

degree than needed 13% more demand than

supply

Source: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/employment_and_growth/the_world_at_work

Trend

s & Is

sues

According to a recent Indeed report there are more postings than people for these professions: Engineering & Architecture Computer & Math

Health Care & Technical Management

“What Job Seekers Want: Occupational Satisfaction & Desirability Report,” Indeed, March 2014

Trends & Issues Traditional search is more

and more difficultMany top people are not on

LinkedIn or social media

Few people respond to

Inmails and other

communications.

Recruiting websites fail to

reach most people.

Referral programs work,

but can be overused.

Crow

dsou

rcin

g –

a so

lutio

n

Obtaining the leads to the best

talent by soliciting contributions

from a large group of people,

especially an online community.

Why

Use

Cr

owds

ourc

ing?

How does anyone know you have opportunities?

When they find an interesting position, what

do they do?Why would they go through your application process?What’s your incentive?

How is your firm different?

Ben

efits

to Yo

ur

Orga

niza

tion

-Access hard-to-talk-to, hard-to-find talent-Find higher quality

candidates -Find candidates faster than traditional search

-Involving employees improves candidate acceptance

4 Requirements

The Crowd

The job seeking

population

Your employees

The unidentified

hard-to-find

The Crowdsourc

er This is you,

your team

and your

organization

who are

looking for

great people.

4 Requirements

The Crowdsourc

e Task

Finding the

hard-to-find

talent you

need.

Finding the

highest quality talent.

The Crowdsourc

e Platform

Your online

community

and website.

You social

media presence.

Build an Online Community

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1

More

Exa

mpl

es

Doesn’t have to be for

recruiting. You can “lurk” and

find interesting people.

New Approach by Zappos

No Job

Postings!

Usef

ul P

latfo

rm

Tool

s

Ascendify

Partner with Internal Talent

-Find experts willing

to share

-Solicit employees to

act as ambassadors

-Work with the

marketing folks

-Select employees to

find specific people

for opportunities.15

2

Keep Everyone

Engaged

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1. Create Interest

groups -

Engineering-Human

Resources-Finance 2. Build interesting content -Use internal people -Made short videos -Use surveys & quizes3. Keep it fresh

-Announce events -Showcase corporate activities -Make sure it is current 4. Use Social Media

-Link to your Facebook

page -Link to Twitter

-Let them follow a

recruiter

3

Social Media is key to candidate awareness and engagement.

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Social Media Influence

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Use Your Imagination to

Build Traffic

-Use selected

internal talent to

find other talent.

-Hold a contest

-Use MOOCs

-Create games

-Promote on social

media

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4

Make it Easy to

Express Interest

-Easy Registration for

community (just an

email)

-Preliminary

application via

LinkedIn or Facebook

-Self-assessments

-Games

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5

THANKSYour Thoughts & Questions

Follow me on Twitter: @kwheeler

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