A Tale of Two CRMs

by Alice Snell | December 5, 2007 No comments

With the war for talent raging, HR is doing what it can to recruit and retain top talent by managing candidate relationships. Meanwhile, your sales and support staff are focused on managing customer relationships. Depending on who in the organization you ask, you may get the same response as Charles Dickens opener in A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”

There are now two CRMs: customer relationship management (CRM) on the sales side and candidate relationship management (CRM) on the HR side. If you are a recruiter, your candidates are your customers. For them, the recruiting relationship begins at your career site.

Your career site says a lot about your business. Its the front line in the war for talent. Candidates are shopping for a career; first impressions can make or break recruiting success.

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Take a closer look at the recruiters’ CRM and you may be saying: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done

Alice Snell

Alice Snell

Former Vice President, Taleo Research

Alice Snell is former Vice President of Taleo Research. Ms. Snell has been tracking and analyzing the intersection between technology and talent management for more than a decade. A noted […]