Kent Pinkerton
It is vital that companies have efficient management. While it is common for companies to hire from within, meaning that they promote current employees to executive positions, it is not always possible. There are times when companies must search outside their own ranks in order to find the most qualified executives.
There are a couple of ways that companies recruit executives. Some of them choose to hire on their own, using their human resources division, while others employ recruiting firms to find the executives for them. No matter who does the hiring, executive recruiting software makes it much easier. These programs can create a database of applicants, organize applicant information, create advertisements for open executive positions, and filter out unqualified applicants. Executive recruiting software is perfect for companies that need to hire the best executives possible.
It’s given new meaning to me of the scientific term black hole.
—Don Logan, U. S. businessman, president and chief executive of Time Inc. His response when asked how much his company had spent in the last year to develop Pathfinder, Time Inc.’S site on the World Wide Web. Quoted in New York Times, p. D7 (November 13, 1995)
Executive recruiting software streamlines the hiring process. These programs are great for creating detailed databases of applicants. All types of information such as the applicant’s name, address, telephone number, resume details, college degree, and any other relevant qualifications are categorized and put in the database. Recruiters can then access all necessary information on an applicant any time they may need it.
This information is organized to allow recruiters to access whichever type of data they need at any given time. For example, information is stored by type, so the recruiter can choose to look at only resumes, or only people who live in a certain city, or any other criteria they choose. They do not have to search through the entire file for each applicant to find the information that they want to view.
Executive recruiting software can easily eliminate applicants who do not meet job requirements. The files of applicants who don’t have the required job experience or education are marked to alert recruiters that these people are not fully qualified.
Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not “into thinking,” as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: “To us,” as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, “communication is message assimilation—the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.”
—Mark Crispin Miller, U. S. educator, media critic. “The Hipness Unto Death,” Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Northwestern University Press (1988)
Executive recruiting software makes the difficult job of hiring managers much easier. The numerous features of these software programs streamline and organize applicant’s data allowing recruiters to make quicker and better decisions.
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