On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:00 PM, David Nolan <[email protected]> wrote: > ... Surely there > are candidates out there looking for this kind of opportunity, our > recruiting team must just not be recruiting in the right places.
Just between you and me... My advice is to focus on poaching from other companies. When there are a lot of layoffs it is the senior people that /tend/ to get retained. If your recruiters are going after people that are looking for work, they're not hitting the cream of the crop. I'm not saying that only incompetent people are unemployed right now, a lot of them are junior people that are at the top of their game; but you said you were looking for senior people. The market has narrowed your search for you; sadly it has done this by positioning them, gainfully employed, at companies in your area. My suggestion: Go to LISA, find the people that are employed and live in your area, and explain to them why the opportunities are so much better at your company. Talk to people that say they aren't looking. Some of them just haven't considering the idea of moving, others have and just aren't admitting it. They'll say they aren't interested, but visit back with them 2-3 times during the conference; people are slow to warm up to the idea. Get their email/phone # and talk with them after the conference. Don't take no for an answer. It is sort of like dating. The first "no" means, "wow, I didn't even know I was on the market". The second "no" means, "I'm thinking about it". Not to sound like a stalker, but persistance wins. Where is your company located? What industries are in the area? Maybe you are in Insurance and they are in Manufacturing; they love their job but are a bit bored and a move to Insurance would be the kind of excitement they hadn't thought of before. Tom -- http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- my blog (new posts Mon and Wed) http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my advice (more videos coming soon) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
