Shift in the placement industry and email Resume
After the livelihood business has been through the wringer, its serious business time. We seem to have arrived at square one, which, no doubt, is a strategic place.
Yesterday, resumes through free gift-wrapped e-mails were the order of the day. Jammed e-mail boxes seem to be a more viable alternative to the prevalent, expensive, traditional methodologies (like head-hunting or advertising), of candidate access.
No one really anticipated the boomerang effect. In this melee, the placeable, jobseeking professionals have gone into their cubby-holes. Their fears of blatant visibility and over circulation are justified.
Also, the corporates are getting quite confused about the role of placement services. When a company invites twenty placement firms to handle a single post, and gets the same biodata from all plus one free copy of the same from every job website, the option one takes is not surprising.
There is a shift in the placement industry. ‘Accuracy’ in candidate identification is taking precedence over ‘choice’. Cut throat offers are no longer the deciding criterion in hiring recruitment firms, though arm twisting is still prevalent. With all this, what’s happenning is that the placement industry is slowly getting segregated into the ‘headhunters’ and the ‘headcatchers’. Now, that exclusivity has a proven demand, it is not difficult to predict the future survivors of this industry.
I guess the spring cleaning is over. And yes, we are ready to spring.
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This post was written by admin on June 18, 2009
