I understand the desire to not use LinkedIn, but for those of you not using who are either interested in being hire or in doing hiring, what’s the alternative?
From what I’ve seen everything else is fairly similar, just smaller scale.
I prefer to work with people who I’ve worked with before, and come in via referrals and to hire the same way, but sometimes your pool of contacts isn’t big enough to do that exclusively.
We post our jobs on job boards like stackoverflow. People find our jobs there (or on our corporate job board site) and then apply. We review their resumes, select a few for phone interviews, select 2-4 for in-person or zoom interviews, then either offer the job or keep looking.
Right, so you don’t “source” people who aren’t actively looking.
That’s a great approach, and by nature you’re prefiltering for those interested enough in the position to apply for it, but I don’t think it covers all the cases that people use LinkedIn for when hiring/being hired.
From what I’ve seen everything else is fairly similar, just smaller scale.
I prefer to work with people who I’ve worked with before, and come in via referrals and to hire the same way, but sometimes your pool of contacts isn’t big enough to do that exclusively.