Recruitment VS Relationship: Is there a Difference?

03/03/2019
Recruitment is True Love…

The process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate for your job position is called Recruitment. While the process of finding and marrying the best-qualified candidate for the position of your heart is called Relationship. WAIT so is there a difference between the two?

“Sourcing is like Screening”

When you are looking for someone to build a relationship with, you usually start with the social media screening to understand their interests, habits or preferences. In the past, mutual friends were the main source of this information.
Now Facebook serves as a good mutual friend who delivers the desired information fast and easy.
In recruitment, sourcing is a fancy word for the screening process. It is the identification of candidates with their resumes for a job opening. As a recruiter, you spend your time on LinkedIn, Github, and online hiring platforms to find the candidates, while in the case of screening, the process is the same just social media (SM) channels vary. The Resume is corresponding to SM Profile and based on the filled skills, interests, and past experience, you decide whether to invite the candidate to an interview or not/go on a date or not.

Advice: Screen and Clean your Social Media Profile Information before anyone else, because you never know who will look it: your future BF/GF or a recruiter?

“Job Interview is like a First Date”

After being approved from screening, you are invited to your first date! Happy Face.

Good impression matters and counts. Therefore, you dress up extremely good to make a spectacular first impression. Awkwardness can occur. You are being asked a lot of different and irrelevant questions, such as “What kind of an animal would you be?”, “What is your favourite colour?” or “What would you say is your greatest weakness?”. Meantime inside the mind: Why the hell you do this to me? Outcomes are unpredictable. You usually never receive a call back after the meeting. Sad Story!

The same is with your first interview. An interviewer takes into account your appearance, asks the same type of awkward questions, and in the end, there is again no callback.

Advice: Preparation before the meeting is 80% of the success. So Prepare, Prepare, Prepare and again Prepare.

“Hiring is like a Marriage”

Da da dammm, it is finally time for Selection! After conducting interviews with different candidates, you as a recruiter are ready to make the hiring decision.

However, you are Triggered and Nervous whether the chosen candidate is the one for your company. At this stage, you start to make comparisons with the previous candidates, experiments and testings.
Recruiter thoughts: “Do I want to recruit a genius lazy employee or a responsible, but less qualified employee?”

In the case of the relationship, the choice with whom to marry is also dependant on the long-term plans and person’s qualities. Hence, you do testings, comparisons and experiments as well.
And, eventually, when you make the decision, you sign the official contract and start to live together under one Office Roof.

Advice: Before making the choice, make sure to understand beforehand what you want from them.

“Internship program is like a Child Birth/Child Adoption”

Now after you’ve been hopefully happily married for a while, the time has come to think about your future children.

After developing your family together with your partner, you decide to have or adopt a child to have a great investment for the future. You plan to teach them everything from scratch. The kids who will learn without having any life experience and will become an inseparable part of your Family.

What refers to the company, you decide to start an internship program with people who are not aware of how anything works in your company and lack fundamental knowledge & skills. That is why you start hiring your first interns(you also sometimes headhunt them from your competitors) and increase the size of your company.

Advice: Be slow to hire and prepare the strategy, plan, and tasks for the employee before hiring.

“Divorce is like a Firing/Leaving”

Just like in any relationship, things might not work out.

Husband to Wife: I am sorry, but I met someone new in my life, who understands me better than you. That is why I am leaving you.

Just a moment. I heard this before.

Employee to Employer: Oops! I am sorry. I am leaving the company because I found a new better job. They are providing a higher salary in comparison with my current one. Moreover, they will understand the true value of my job not as you do.

Advice: Move on. Learn from your mistake. Find someone new and don’t repeat the same mistake.

So, is there a real difference between recruiting a candidate and dating a person? My Story, Your Conclusion!

Final Advice: Recruit the right person For your company and For your life!

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