Join us on the StaffingREEL Podcast to hear Adam Conrad sharing insights on recruiting, how to get the best from each recruiter, and defining the difference between your great recruiters and others.

 

Transcript:

00:00:00 - 00:05:00

Hey everybody in staffing world! Listen, it is two weeks till staffing world and we have a couple of weeks further until TechServe Alliance but I did want to take a moment to sit down with everyone and go through some things that have been really the key of conversation in talking with staffing firms about their recruiting endeavors, about their overall perception in the industry, and really trying to find that differentiation. So today we are joined by just a great guy, Adam Conrad. I hope all of you have met Adam but Great Recruiters, and if you haven't had a chance to check out Great Recruiters, please do because I will tell you that when you're trying to find that key messaging in differentiation nothing better than hearing it from your actual consultants, hearing it from your actual candidates. And hearing how great your team is doing. So the fact is, how do you use that to actually create more opportunities and create a better environment for all of your team as well as to create a truly great staffing firm. So with that Adam hey, how you doing bud. I'm doing well, thanks Larry appreciate you take some time to talk to me here. No Worries man, Listen I'm glad we could do this. You know everything going on in the world right now, all these different staffing firms with being virtual they don't get to make a lot of the relationships that they're used to doing and right now it's a lot over email and phone and text, and it really is proving to be a little less personal. I'm just Kinda curious what caused you to start Great Recruiters? I've been in the industry for twenty years. You know I cut my teeth as a recruiter, had managed recruitment teams, was running operations for a mid size staffing firm, and you know I always thought we were ahead we're innovative. We're one of the first use engagement platforms, one of the first to really incorporate video into our onboarding acclimation process, and so I've always been focused on the experience that we can create as an organization and as recruiters and as sales people, and you know what bothered me the most and what drove me to do this is our industry has a horrible reputation and I always go back there. Right? Google recruiters are and it doesn't say very nice things. My wife is a nurse. You Google nurses and in it says a lot of wonderful things. So you know for me part of the problem and I think it's the elephant room that many staffing firms don't wanna acknowledge is the reputation of our industry of not having very much transparency and what drove me to doing this is I knew there's great recruiters out there, there's great staffing firms, and I know there's a whole bunch that unfortunately create a lot of negativity in our industry. I wanted a way for staffing firms to see if they're part of the problem and to help get that feedback to help drive their brand in the marketplace. Well, it sounds like we can make this really easy podcast. I think what you just said was is they'd all recruiters should become nurses. No. I'm not necessarily. I think nurses need to have a little empathy and sometimes they see that lacking a little bit on the recruiting side. So just a little. I mean, it is funny when you think about this most people kind of think about it from their own recruiting perspective, which is that they are calling on a candidate two, three or four times a day they're trying to get that person nailed down. But the reality is is there's about fifty thousand to five hundred thousand other recruiters calling the same people so they forget that burn out factor that these candidates get. How you stand out really is important for everyone but it's also the fact that knowing that you're...