Did you know people learn? Yes, you heard it right here! People, even grown ups, have the ability to learn new things. Isn't that exciting?
Being in Recruiting for a third of my life, I've worked with thousands of candidates on thousands of open jobs with thousands of customers. Some jobs are easy to fill. Some candidates are easy to place. Sometimes the stars align and an easy to fill job is filled with an easy to place candidate. Everyone wins!
What about the other side of things? Specifically, jobs that are hard to fill. Hard to fill jobs are hard to fill for a lot of different reasons. They can range from difficulty of skill set to how attractive the job and/or customer are to people with said skill set and a lot of things in between. The short of it is, any hard to fill job can be tied back to customer expectations and their ability to flex with the market. Much of this has to do with setting expectations early and the customer's willingness to be flexible. A job description, after all, is nothing but a wishlist.
Too often in Recruiting we spend months trying to fill a job, sinking valuable time and resources into trying to please a customer that isn't flexible. The longer this takes, the more obvious it is to you that someone with lesser skill and experience could have filled the job and learned what they needed to be successful. People are awesome like that!
The point is, have some guts. It's in everyone's best interest to fill the job quickly with a great candidate. The earlier in the process we can educate the customer on market conditions, skill-set availability and their attractiveness to potential candidates, the sooner we can work towards finding a candidate who can not only do the job, but will see it as an exciting opportunity to learn and grow. Who wouldn't want that?
Being in Recruiting for a third of my life, I've worked with thousands of candidates on thousands of open jobs with thousands of customers. Some jobs are easy to fill. Some candidates are easy to place. Sometimes the stars align and an easy to fill job is filled with an easy to place candidate. Everyone wins!
What about the other side of things? Specifically, jobs that are hard to fill. Hard to fill jobs are hard to fill for a lot of different reasons. They can range from difficulty of skill set to how attractive the job and/or customer are to people with said skill set and a lot of things in between. The short of it is, any hard to fill job can be tied back to customer expectations and their ability to flex with the market. Much of this has to do with setting expectations early and the customer's willingness to be flexible. A job description, after all, is nothing but a wishlist.
Too often in Recruiting we spend months trying to fill a job, sinking valuable time and resources into trying to please a customer that isn't flexible. The longer this takes, the more obvious it is to you that someone with lesser skill and experience could have filled the job and learned what they needed to be successful. People are awesome like that!
The point is, have some guts. It's in everyone's best interest to fill the job quickly with a great candidate. The earlier in the process we can educate the customer on market conditions, skill-set availability and their attractiveness to potential candidates, the sooner we can work towards finding a candidate who can not only do the job, but will see it as an exciting opportunity to learn and grow. Who wouldn't want that?
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