让搜索更有效的五种方法-1. 不要让Email和SNS使你的搜索变得被动

最近看了Danny Cahill的写的一些关于如何加强猎头搜索能力的文章, 此人是美国Hobson Associates的创始合伙人. 美国猎头的搜索方法也就那些方法吧,呵呵.不过看得出来,在今天这个时代, 美国猎头对Web数据库的搜索应用非常依赖,而这几篇文章主要提出了在这样一种互联网信息爆炸的时代下,猎头如何处理搜索的基本原则, 挺有启发的; 所以决定最近花点时间翻译一下这些文章.
优秀的招募者必须知道,一旦有需要说服候选人,沟通方式采用一个积极的通话是必须的.
有很多人常常问我,”我是否该用这个网络(Network)阿?是否我该用哪个网络(Network)阿?只用LinkedIn是不是已经足够了阿?我应不应该使用Facebook来找人阿? 用Spock找人怎么样呢?还有好多其他网站对搜索来说用处大不大阿?” 我听到这样的问题的频率远远高于我自己常问的这个问题, ” 我应该使用什么样的职位销售技巧?”
作为招募者,我担心的是各种的在线工具成为分散我们注意力的武器;我与X生代(Gen X,美国婴儿潮之后出生的一代人,生于1960 and 1970)和婴儿潮代(Baby Boomer, 美国二次大战后生育高峰出生的人)的经理们聊天时候,我告诉他们我曾经听说很多老套而流行的说法是,X生代的雇员能够同时处理多任务的工作,不过我不认为多任务处理的能力就能避免分散注意力;事实上,我担心他们的注意力被分散得厉害,并且我相信,相比其他辈人,他们分心得更严重;我想他们需要重新组织一下自己的工作;我也担心他们太依赖于在线工具搜索了;有这样一种看法,那就是相比起直接打电话,采用e-mail联系候选人是更加友好和更安全的方法;这或许是因为在电话里听到冷冰冰的”NO”,相比简单的发送Email难接受。不过讽刺的是,比起电话,人们对于陌生人的e-mail会更加生气。
在我的公司,我已经开始重新安排工作时间结构; 我要求我的员工能在早上8:30开始打电话之前查阅他们的Email, 然后到10:00休息之前绝不要再查阅邮件.也不要在下午1点到3点查阅邮件,到了3点以后,你才去查看你的邮件,甚至到晚上都没问题,只要你愿意. 在我指导新雇员的第一次课程中,我实际上首先是教别人学习写邮件, 然后,在接下来大部分的时间里,我会减少email课程的时间和削减Email的数量, 比例达到60%-70%.
问题的关键是email缺乏情景语气和及时性;你甚至不知道他们是否会看你的Email, 以及是否他们真的读了你的Email. 你也不清楚他们看了Email的反应. 事实上, 我需要听到的是你怎么看待这个机会, 比如你给我发送了你的简历并且说, “这个工作看起来不错”, 但我甚至不知道这句话到底意味着什么, 这句话可以理解为你的确是对这个工作非常感兴趣, 也可以理解为你对这个机会看起来并不是那么认真; 公平地说, Email的确在初期的流程中有效的提高了工作的反馈, 并且Email的确有助于时间的安排;但是, Email完全不能代替电话上沟通工作; 优秀的招募者必须知道,一旦有说服候选人的需要,常规的Email沟通方式转变为一个积极的通话是必须的.但太多的时候我并没有看到这样的沟通, 相反, 我看到招募者发送一封Email,并说, ”我这有个机会…”, 然后候选人回复一封邮件并附上他们的简历; 然后由于招募者几乎没有什么信息能跟客户沟通的,因此就把这些简历直接发给客户,开始等待反馈; 这实在是一种被动的方式.
Email的属性决定了它只能是是被动的方式; 这就是为什么在我的公司里, 使用Email来逃避打电话被认为是一种对候选人书面的冒犯. 换句话说, 你永远不会看到我公司的任何人发送一封诸如”为什么你不要接这个Counteroffer的10个原因”的邮件,或者是发送”明天你就面试了,这有一些帮助你面试准备的文章,请一定要看看”的邮件; 因为你永远不知道他们是不是会看.
不管在招募还是生活中, 如果你都等着好事来找上你,那你不可能成为最优秀的人.你不能等着它发生,你要让它发生.
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Good recruiters must understand the need to change the mode of communication to a live call once persuasion is required.
I have people ask me all the time, “Should I be on this network? Should I be on that network? Is LinkedIn enough? Should I be on Facebook™? What about Spoke™? What other sites?” I get those questions far more often than I get, “What are the sales techniques that I should use?”
As a recruiter, I fear that all we are doing with these online tools is providing our people with weapons of mass distraction. When I talk to my Gen X and Baby Boomer managers, I tell them that I’ve heard the stereotype about the Gen Y employees being capable of multitasking, but I don’t think it is a free pass to be distracted. I worry that their minds are all over the place and believe that more than any other generation in the workplace; they need to be given structure. I also worry that they depend on online technology too much. There’s this idea that email is a much friendlier and safer approach than making phone calls. Maybe it’s because hearing someone say “no” is much harder to take than reading it. But the irony is that people can be much more angry and mean in emails than on the phone.
In my office, I have gone back to structuring time. I ask my people to check their email before they get on the phone at 8:30 a.m. and then not check it again until a break at 10 a.m. Don’t check it between 1 and 3p.m. Then at 3, you can check it and be on it all night if you want. For the first time in my career, I am actually teaching people how to write emails, and, for the most part, I am having them cut back the length and the number of emails by 60 to 70 percent.
The problem is that email lacks tone and immediacy. You don’t know if they read it, and if they did read it, you don’t know what their mood was. I need to hear how you say it. If you email me a resume and say, “That job looks good,” I don’t know what that means. That could be you as excited as you get, or that could be a signal that you’re not that serious. I think it’s fair to say that email blasts work at the beginning of the process to get a response, and email is great for scheduling. But email does not work as a replacement for persuasion. Good recruiters must understand the need to change the mode of communication to a live call once persuasion is required. Too many times I don’t see that happening. Instead, I see recruiters sending an email saying, “I’ve got this job,” and the candidate emails their resume back. Then, the recruiter can’t get the client on the phone, so he emails the resume to the client and waits around. It’s a passive activity.
Email is passive by nature. That’s why it’s literally a firing offense in my office to use email as a cop out. In other words, you’ll never see anyone in my office emailing some article on the 10 reasons why you don’t take a counteroffer or say, “I know you have an interview tomorrow, so here’s our little prep email. Make sure you read this.” You don’t know if they read it.
In recruiting and in life, you’re not going to be a top performer if things are dictated to you. You can’t let things happen to you – you must make things happen.



