Sourcers / Researchers need not apply
Sourcers / Researchers need not apply
There was a time when everyone heard about agencies, headhunters and executive search firms. There job was to present candidates which the recruiters can not find. Its not that the recruiters can't find but their specialty was about cold calling , networking and pitching the job which truth be spoken I haven't seen in many corporate recruiters. They used to bring in candidates which the corporate recruiters didn't produce and there could be 'n number of reasons for that from being incompetent, to ethical calling, just be scared or the most real "lack of time".
And then couple of years back someone talked about internet sourcing and research team developed across many companies. The research/ Sourcing team got the freedom to work as a headhunter -with new tools with less paper pushing and less metrics on recruiting but focusing on pipelining or alternative sourcing , competitive intelligence which the recruiter (mostly) didn't had the time to do working with 20-30 requisition at a time. Now there was a new breed of sourcers called Internet researcher /sourcer who are good with writing search strings and 5% of them good on cold calling as well.
They typically were a function created to facilitate recruiting in curbing unnecessary spending on agencies; to make some nice power point presentation for sr. management with competitive data and of course train the current recruiting team(recruiters) on thinking out of the box and looking beyond job boards.
So what do you (sourcers /researcher) do when you are not hiring anymore?
Tweet, facebook or linkedin a lot?...
You have already trained your recruiting team and they can do whatever you were doing; you have created a pipeline for couple of years, I like your intelligence data and excel sheet to call them for next year or so.
So is sourcing going to be dead soon? I wonder.
Yikes Rithesh- that's a bit of doom and gloom isn't it?
Well, I think the inquisitive nature of internet researchers can provide other value to an organization-keep searching for competitive information, get up to speed on new technologies, perhaps train yourself in other areas (such as building a web site dedicated to all things Sourcing),volunteer to help out in areas of the company where an extra brain is needed...these are just some of the few things you can think about doing. Would love to hear other people's thoughts.
And, long live Sourcing and Researchers!!
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