{"id":28824,"date":"2020-03-25T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patriceandassociates.com\/blacksburg-24091\/?p=28824"},"modified":"2023-07-28T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T18:59:42","slug":"are-you-ready-for-the-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patriceandassociates.com\/blacksburg-24091\/are-you-ready-for-the-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready for the recovery?"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVID-19 has left us all in a quasi-state of panic.\u00a0 The fear of the unknown, shelter-in-place orders, social distancing, non-essential business shutdowns, schools closed….where does it end?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What I do know is that we cannot sustain this forever or perhaps not even for the foreseeable future.\u00a0 I don’t know when we will return to normalcy but I do know we will. We’ve been through major crises before and at the time of the crisis, it seemed like we would be working in a new normal but then we returned to business as usual.<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you ready for the recovery?\u00a0 It may not be tomorrow but it’s coming.\u00a0 How will you handle the surge in hiring requirements?\u00a0 If a company had 5-10 hiring needs per month pre-COVID-19, imagine what that will look like post-COVID-19 especially if this isolation and shutdown continues for 2-3 months.\u00a0 Many companies are still hiring, thankfully! Many others have put their recruiting and talent search on hold until we come to grips with this pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For companies that were struggling to hire the right people pre-COVID-19, they will struggle even more post-COVID-19.\u00a0 In times like these, why not explore using an executive recruiter who will go way beyond the conventional recruiting methods?\u00a0 At Patrice and Associates, we use our proprietary methods to find, vet and present only qualified candidates. If you want to sift through hundreds of candidates, be my guest and please continue your struggle.\u00a0 If, on the other hand, you want to make your recruiting and talent acquisition streamlined so you can work on all your other important tasks, look to partner with strong recruiting firms that streamline your efforts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Great recruiting firms help companies hire the right people in an effective manner.\u00a0 Here are some characteristics that can help surge your talent acquisition efforts:<\/span><\/p>\n

Put the power of the economy of scale that great executive recruiters can surge great, vetted candidates to work for you.<\/b>\u00a0 How does this work?\u00a0 Simply, by hiring an experienced recruiter or recruiting firm, you can handle your other talent acquisition tasks such as onboarding, benefits management, interview scheduling while you have an effective recruiter screen several great candidates versus you screening hundreds of job applicants.\u00a0 Recruiters have one job- recruit. I spend 8-10 hours a day talking to candidates. I don\u2019t have countless meetings and other tasks to do because my job is to hunt the right candidates for your open roles. When you employ a national recruiter like mine, you get the power of hundreds of recruiters who are following the same system to find, vet and send you great candidates.\u00a0 Our goal is to find 3-5 highly qualified candidates, not send you hundreds of unvetted and unqualified candidates. When you do the simple math, I can employ 100 recruiters x 8 hours\/day to find good candidates. That means in one day, I can have 800 manhours in the search versus an overworked HR Director and staff trying to do the same work.<\/span><\/p>\n

We use proprietary methods to find great candidates. <\/b>\u00a0Many internal recruiters and even less effective recruiters\/recruiting firms all use the same basic methods to find candidates.\u00a0 The number 1 method is to post a job on the company\u2019s website, job boards, social media and throughout networking groups. While you can certainly find candidates passively using that methodology, it\u2019s not the most effective means.\u00a0 When we return to some normalcy, you will quickly become overwhelmed by the amount of candidates that will apply to a post in this fashion. We go the extra mile to actively search for candidates. <\/span>\u00a095% of my candidates are not actively searching for a new role. <\/b>\u00a0This means that you will not even find my candidates and most of these candidates are employed, qualified and are simply looking to see if there is something better out there.\u00a0 In other words, they are passively looking. There are 4 types of candidates- 1) unemployed; 2) employed but actively seeking; 3) employed by passively looking and; 4) employed and happy.\u00a0 We concentrate on #3- employed by passively looking. <\/span>Those candidates are NOT normally applying to jobs.<\/b><\/p>\n

We have a code of ethics that governs how we do business.<\/b>\u00a0 We work for the client company.\u00a0 While we want our candidates to be happy with a new role, the client\u2019s needs always trump the candidate\u2019s desires.\u00a0 Our ideal situation is to create a happy marriage between our client and our candidate. If the client is happy with a hiring decision and the candidate is happy with the client company, the increase in productivity has just paid the fee for the executive recruiter\u2019s efforts.\u00a0 With a strong code of ethics, you are getting the best that we can offer. We go out of our way to ensure that the candidate does not misrepresent their skills and experience. We do reference checks and employment checks based on what our client asks us to do. Of course, we do not always get that right but we do as much due diligence as we can on all the candidates that we represent.\u00a0 The client company still needs to do background checks, drug screens, etc.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are waiting for the economy to return to some level of normalcy, you may find yourself in an overwhelming talent search situation.\u00a0 I get calls everyday from candidates that I have placed asking me if I can help them just in case they get laid off. Candidates are looking right now.\u00a0 It would serve you well to keep your pipeline full even if you are not hiring right now. Let me help you with filling your pipeline!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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