The I.T. recruitment game is changing
I posted recently here http://www.tinyurl.ie/2u about how Verify Recruitment is changing how IT recruitment is undertaken in Ireland. They have launched a Panel, of specialists from the IT sector who will analyse and verify their candidates before they sent onto clients.
It’s easy to see why this is needed. It’s hard enough for recruitment consultants in other sectors to verify whether a candidate has the necessary skills for the vacancy. This is why recruitment consultants are constantly being criticised for the quality of people they recommend to companies.
For instance, take PR: it is very difficult for a recruitment consultant to gauge the quality of media contacts a PR has, the level of their involvement in previous PR campaigns and what levels understanding they have of new media ,such as social networking, and whether they can combine the two traditional and new methods of PR, which is vital these days. Things are moving fast enough in PR so I dread to think how fast the IT sector moves, it must be nigh on impossible for recruitment consultants to keep up.
The term IT sector is a bit of a misnomer reallybecause it is so broad, taking in anything from telecommunications, gaming, software and hosting. With some many areas of specialism a new method of recruitment was essential to fill IT jobs. Cathal Grogan has, very wisely, appointed a pool of experts, who are currently working right across the board in IT, that he can call on whenever he has vacancy in their sector. They provide added industry insight at a level that would take Cathal months or possibly years of working in sector to acquire. It also means that his clients can talk to their peers with their sector about potential candidates in a language they understand. If you put yourself in the client’s position, who’s opinion would you value most, that from a recruitment consultant in a competing agency or the recommendation from an industry professional with similar experience and background as yourself. The answer to that IT people, is obvious?
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25/11/2009 6:00 am
