Recruiting For Minnesota Tech Companies & Startups:

Checklist

v1 - April 2012

• 14 years as an IT Recruiter• Author of Minnesota Headhunter blog• Frequent local and national speaker on Recruiting, HR, Career

and Social Media topics• Co-Founder and Coordinator of Minnesota Recruiters• Active in the Minneapolis & St Paul technology, marketing and

social media community as a sponsor, volunteer & mentor

This is a checklist from what are topic, ½ or full day trainings

Minnesota IT unemployment is likely < 2%

Flashback 4 Years

Post n PrayThe “War For Talent”

Baby Boomers retiringHow to recruit Gen Y

How are you preparing for the new/old employment market?

The War for Talent v2

Myth vs Reality

Source of Hire

CareerXroads 2012 Sources of Hire: Channels that Influence

Source Of External Hire

55% of all hires: Internal employees, employee referrals and company career sites

SilkRoad 2012 External Source of Hire

Take off your company hat and be an IT professional…

Would you know you are hiring?

Would you be intrigued by what you see to apply?

Recruiting = Marketing + Sales

Web site… you have a jobs page, right?

Your job posts (likely) SUCK

Sourcing, Recruiting and Closing is like Dating

Where To Post Jobs

Colleges, Universities, Tech Schools

Post ‘n Pray is one (not the only) tactic

Are you passive or aggressive?

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to

go to them sometimes.”

Recruiting Is A Contact Sport

Go Where IT Folks Hang Out

User Groups, Meet Ups, Events

YouTube & SlideCast

More Tools…

Aggregators: Indeed, LinkUp & SimplyHired

RSS & Email FedsBlog & Newsletter

Candidate Pipeline: Hunting and Farming

Referrals

What about…

Google+, Pinterest, (fill in the blank)

Success in using Social Media as a recruiting tool depends on (in part)

candidate:

LocationSkill SetIndustry

And the Recruiter’s ability to use the tools

Tools In The (My) Recruiter Tool Chest

“Online”:

•LinkedIn

•Facebook

•Twitter

•Ning Groups

•Blogs

•YouTube

•RSS/Email Feeds

“Traditional”:

•Phone

•Web site

•Career Page

•Big Job Boards

•Niche Job Boards

•Newsletter

•Networking Events

Analytics

Visits to your web siteCareer page

BioKeywordsReferrals

Articles & Links

Use Google Analytics & URL Shortners

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Whew… what did I miss?

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