In our industry, having a solid candidate pipeline is important. How would you go about developing a great candidate pipeline as our next Staffing Manager?
Today, Staffing Managers are tasked with being proactive in their recruitment efforts, and candidate pipelining for future recruitment efforts is vital in quickly hiring candidates for hard-to-fill positions. Ideally, your interviewer is looking to hear that you have some effective methods to build great candidate pipelines and that you can put these to work in your recruitment efforts with their organization. As you answer, be sure to talk about why pipelining is important and focus on networking, social media, and staff referral efforts you have used to build a presence for your future openings to attract candidates ahead of time.
"As I know is true in your industry, the last ten years have proven to be much more difficult to recruit individuals reactively, and hiring managers want candidates yesterday rather than six months down the road. In my current role, I attend many university recruiting events to begin talking to future candidates even years before they graduate. I've put together great materials for them on what a future career looks like with our organization. Following events like this, I add candidates to our CRM and stay in contact with them regularly. These efforts have helped us fill our last three engineering positions in just a few short weeks."
