Popular e-Cruiting Tools Running Out Of Steam?

A recent article on e-cruiting, "Why It Works", in the Electronic Recruiting News addresses the decrease in effectiveness of e-cruiting products due to a shortage driven (candidate deficient) marketplace. The article reinforces the views expressed here on RNO regarding the importance of extending the traditional practices which have brought recruiters success offline and how recruiters tend to abandon these practices online and raise their expectations of e-cruiting products. We still maintain that the Internet is best utilized as an extension of our recruitment functions, mainly networking, in order to make us more effective at what we do.

The article goes on to suggest that recruiters continue to polish their e-cruiting skills again reinforcing our own assertions that the best e-cruiting tool is one's knowledge of and ability to utilize this medium. Indeed it is every progressive recruiter's job to automate mundane tasks and more importantly learn how to maximize technologies that can increase productivity.

The Internet should help eliminate the barriers between you and the people your clients covet. It is as much a quick-fix solution as it is a replacement for your own job. It will allow you to be in front of as many people as possible at any given time and increase your ability to reach more individuals than ever before possible, if used properly. The Internet will not allow you to part waters enabling potential candidates the least path of resistance to fill your openings but it can definitely provide a few bundles of contacts and leads.

In his article John Sumser explains that the utility of e-cruiting tools have limits. As a networking tool the Internet's limited simply by one's knowledge, efforts and desire. Nelson Abreu