{"id":1084,"date":"2007-07-23T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/recruiting-process-affects-your-marketing-efforts\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T20:09:00","slug":"recruiting-process-affects-your-marketing-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/recruiting-process-affects-your-marketing-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting Process Affects Your Marketing Efforts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes according to a recent study by Capital Consulting in London.  I came across this short little article from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.workforce.com\/section\/quick_takes\/50045_2.html\">Workforce Management<\/a> in a newsletter.  It is a short artice so I will reproduce it in it&#8217;s entirety (emphasis is mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Least Say Thank You:<br \/>\nShoddy recruiting does more than chase away potential high performers. New research suggests it also may cost companies in the marketplace. Capital Consulting in London says nearly one-quarter of job seekers have been poorly treated when applying for a job, and they frequently take out their frustrations by broadcasting the news far and wide: 31 percent share the bad experience with three to five people, with 24 percent telling six or more people. These sensitive job seekers use their leverage as consumers too, with 53 percent vowing to never purchase products or services from the offending companies. <strong>The biggest complaint centers on lack of communication, with 53 percent expressing anger at not being told why they weren\u20ac\u2122t chosen for a position.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we run our process for our clients the one thing I make sure I do is let candidates know when they have been eliminated from the process.  It is amazing how many thank you&#8217;s I receive back from these candidates.  They are truly thankful that I have communicated with them openly.  So are your recruiting efforts counterproductive to your marketing efforts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes according to a recent study by Capital Consulting in London. I came across this short little article from Workforce Management in a newsletter. It is a short artice so I will reproduce it in it&#8217;s entirety (emphasis is mine): At Least Say Thank You: Shoddy recruiting does more than chase away potential high performers. New research suggests it also may cost companies in the marketplace. Capital Consulting in London says nearly one-quarter of job seekers have been poorly treated when applying for a job, and they frequently take out their frustrations by broadcasting the news far and wide: 31 percent share the bad experience with three to five people,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/recruiting-process-affects-your-marketing-efforts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-hiring","category-marketing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-hu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":254,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/jobseekers-sites\/","url_meta":{"origin":1084,"position":0},"title":"Jobseekers &#038; Sites","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"August 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought I would pass along some stats and information I found regarding job boards & recruiting. This information can be found in a recent newsletter from Weedle's, which is a research, publishing, consulting and training firm. They surveyed 750 job seekers and asked them how much time they normally\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":288,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/job-seekers-on-your-payroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":1084,"position":1},"title":"Job Seekers On Your Payroll","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This article - MORE AMERICANS FED UP AT WORK (you have to love the capitalization) - is a throw away propaganda piece but it does contain an interesting set of statistics: Fifty-eight percent of workers may leave their employer if the economy continues to improve that's up 12 percentage points\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":547,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/another-survey-similar-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":1084,"position":2},"title":"Another Survey, Similar Results","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Now HotJobs.com offers up their survey about job seekers in 2007 - Many workers to consider new jobs in 2007. No surprises in that headline. Their stats: The survey -- in which nearly two-thirds of respondents (66 percent) said they would consider new job opportunities in 2007 -- suggests the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":764,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/online-employment-stats\/","url_meta":{"origin":1084,"position":3},"title":"Online Employment Stats","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 21, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting statistics from Selling Power's The Fast Trend: Online Recruiting Services which references a Monster.com survey regarding online ads. Obviously Monster.com has a horse in the race on this topic, but their stats are somewhat surprising. \"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2003, 62 percent of households had at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1395,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/01\/the-wrong-stuff\/","url_meta":{"origin":1084,"position":4},"title":"The Wrong Stuff","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you aware of all of the interview questions being asked behind close doors at your company?\u00a0 There are many hiring managers who are unaware of what constitutes a good interview questions. Most managers know enough to avoid questions regarding marital status, religion and ethnicity, but how about the oddball\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":950,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/looking-for-clues-when-you-should-assess\/","url_meta":{"origin":1084,"position":5},"title":"&quot;Looking For Clues&quot; When You Should Assess","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of these articles get frustrating in that many of these errors can be avoided with a proper hiring process.\u00a0 From Inc.com's Employers Often Misread Job Applicants: Similarly, out of 400 human resource managers polled, 59 percent said they have misjudged an applicant as being a good fit for the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Assessing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Assessing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/assessing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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