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Top 7 Mistakes that "Star" Recruiters do & "Good" recruiters dont

Source: Everyone's Blog Posts - RecruitingBlogs.com

Oct 16, 2009

Summary

If you are a recruiter, and even if you are a star recruiter, make sure that you dont do the below mentioned mistakes as part of your recruitment process. They are criminal and not excusable. Just because your time to fill and cost to fill metrics are good does not mean that you can get away messing up with the process and system.

1. Not entering the data into the Applicant Tracking System.

Lot of so called star recruiters hide behind the excuse that data entry is too tedious and time consuming and that in their already busy day of recruitment they have very little time to do administrative tasks at the cost of loosing hires. What they dont understand is this data is the property of the company. Tomorrow whether the recruiter is there with the company or not this information needs to be with the company. Also reporting is one of the key facets of performance management/improvement and more importantly it provides the business intelligence to the company and reporting cannot be accurate if the data itself is inaccurate.

2. Not following up with the candidates aft ...Read the full article

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