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I love "recruiters" who teach people on LinkedIn how to be ATS (application tracking system) compliant instead of teaching themselves how to find and recognise talent. If your recruitment guy is still obsessed with CV that's not the person for you as a candidate or for your organisation. Collecting CVs is not a skill, going out there and finding the right person is!
Recruitment is terrible for all parties but let's see what recruiters should be doing instead of expecting everyone to craft those perfect CVs that are suitable for their systems. Can you see the ridiculousness of this sentence? Recruiters want people to be suitable for the system not for the job.
The recruiters I know couldn't care less about CVs in fact, they don't have ATS. They have a large network of people they reach out to when a job becomes available and they scout for talent on LinkedIn. They observe people's LinkedIn activities to see what they post, talk and write about. Based on that they establish the area of expertise, what the person is passionate about, what is his/her style, if the person is more suitable for a startup or a structured organisation, if the person has anything to contribute, how well this person up to date with industry happening etc...
LinkedIn is the perfect platform to showcase one's personality, interests, level of knowledge and more. They even look at whether or not you just repost others' content or create. I'll tell you something, they like those who create content and not just repost stuff. They also like character, personality, and not the boring stuff everyone else is saying. By observing you online they can establish your style and "culture" fit for a certain company.
Great recruiters don't tell candidates how to be ATS compliant (this has also been debunked by competent recruiters), they act as talent scouts who go out there and find the person they need for a particular role.
It is time that companies looked at the way they hire because the time of CVs is up. It also saves time and effort for them because why on earth would you post a role to receive thousands of CVs that now you need to go through? Doesn't it make sense to reach out to 10 people with the job opportunity and just liaise with those? It takes 10% of the time. We need to start working smart because I know people who rather be jobless than go through the application process. This is what we have done and we wonder why we cannot find people. Well, if you want to find people you have to look for them. So, stop the teaching and the post & pray approach to recruitment and turn your recruiters into talent scouts. Start by taking away the ATS so they have no choice but to go and look for candidates.
By the way, that system of yours is a mess. Full of CVs that nobody ever looks at. Plus it is a cost to the business.
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