Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog
Shaina Kashyap is an experienced account executive at Patterns Hiring, a recruitment agency that initially specialized in healthcare. Since joining Reflik in 2023, Shaina and her team of recruiters have diversified their recruiting portfolio, expanded into new industries like IT and engineering, and consistently made placements across various functional roles.
In this interview, Shaina shares how Reflik has been a pivotal part of her agency’s success.
Melanie Minjares is a seasoned recruiter who joined Reflik in 2021. She was exploring opportunities to grow her recruiting business and discovered Reflik from a Google search, “How to scale my recruiting business.”
Here, she explains how she has succeeded in expanding her business and diversifying her recruitment portfolio while pursuing an MBA and juggling her family responsibilities.
Recruiting is a dynamic and demanding career where maintaining a good work-life balance can be challenging. However, Chloe Hayes, a seasoned independent recruiter, has achieved just that – using Reflik to take ownership of her life and continue to grow her recruiting business.
Our partnership with Chloe Hayes began in August 2021. Since then, she has placed several quality candidates, from a C++ Developer to a Vice President in the food services industry. She was excited that the first two hires came in just the first six months of working on Reflik, which she said demonstrates the growth potential on the platform.
In a recent conversation, Chloe explained her journey building her recruiting business and how Reflik has contributed to her growth.
Reports suggest there have been over 150,000 tech professionals laid off globally in the last few months of 2022. This has made it difficult for recruiting agencies to match available talent with clients who are still hiring. Amidst this challenging landscape, Glocomms, a distinguished tech staffing agency focused on data science, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and related functions, has leveraged Reflik to maintain its momentum with placements.
Glocomms achieved great success in 2022, earning over $300,000 in placement fees through Reflik. We recently had the privilege of conversing with Jack Santon, the Principal Consultant at Glocomms, who shared valuable insights on how he and his team excel in placements with Reflik. [Read more…]
Headquartered in La Plata, Maryland, Wills Group is a third-generation family-owned company, specializing in convenience retailing, fuels marketing, and commercial real estate. As a Great Place to Work Certified company with a vast network of 300 retail locations across the Mid-Atlantic region, recruiting the right talent efficiently is crucial for the company’s ongoing success.
In 2016, Wills Group partnered with Reflik to streamline their recruitment and gain access to a pool of high-quality candidates quickly for their roles that range from Software Developers to HVAC Service Technicians.
We had the opportunity to chat with Lorissa Martin, the Talent Acquisition and Development Manager, and Michelle Hackett, Senior Recruiter at Wills Group. We discussed how their ongoing partnership with Reflik has helped them overcome the challenges of finding top talent in a fast-paced industry.
One key takeaway from most recruiters and agencies working on Reflik is how much and how quickly they can scale their recruitment business through the platform. Chicago-based agency, Raymax Recruitment Solutions is one such example. This up-and-coming agency, specializing in medical, engineering, and hospitality industries, started working on Reflik in October 2021.
Within just a few months of signing up on the Reflik platform, Raymax has successfully made seven placements. The opportunity to focus on generating revenue rather than chasing clients has significantly contributed to this agency’s success.
We recently spoke to Ian Ali – the Head of Recruitment at Raymax. He was happy to share his experiences recruiting via Reflik and explain what working on this platform means to Raymax.
Reflik is proud to be named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list for three consecutive years — 2020, 2021, and 2022. Reflik has accelerated its growth exponentially over the past few years with innovative recruiting solutions, including direct hire, contingent hire, and agency management. During this period, Reflik has consistently added Fortune 500 clients, as well as small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs), in a range of different industries from Financial Services and Manufacturing to Technology and Professional Services.
As the largest online recruitment marketplace in the U.S., Reflik is dedicated to helping companies find the right talent quickly and efficiently through an all-inclusive centralized platform. Reflik is known as one of the top recruitment solution providers today with a combination of its innovative technology, intuitive user interface, and strong community of agencies and recruiters.
Reflik’s cutting-edge platform has successfully helped clients meet their hiring needs in a candidate-driven market, despite drastic shifts in hiring practices and labor force expectations caused by the pandemic. Its model also provides agencies and independent recruiters a platform to scale their recruiting business by supporting active jobs.
“Over the past three years, we have achieved exponential growth, which would not have been possible without the support of our clients and recruiting community,” said Reflik’s CEO, Ashish Vachhani. “We look forward to maintaining this momentum in 2023 and are excited about the future with our clients and recruiting partners,” Vachhani added.
Founded in 1981, Wunderlich-Malec is a top engineering firm specializing in the design, programming, and deployment of automation systems for clients across different industries. The nature of their business requires the company to provide ongoing support to their clients. Therefore, it is important to get the right people and partners on board.
Reflik is a proud partner of Wunderlich-Malec supporting their hiring needs through efficient recruiting.
The organization is both aware and proud of the reputation it has built over the decades. As a company at the top of their field, the company is inundated with resumes. To streamline processes and improve quality, they partnered with Reflik.
Recently, we spoke to the client about the impact of our partnership on getting the right talent efficiently for their niche engineering roles.
Like many young graduates – Karl Becker was not sure what he wanted to do after college. That was until a chance discussion with a college friend planted the seed of an idea. That seed (recruitment, naturally) became the right career choice for Karl. A year after starting his recruitment business, he discovered Reflik. Now, only a year later, Karl is Reflik’s most recent success story.
Here, he discusses how the opportunities on Reflik enabled him to boost his recruiting business and highlights strategies that helped him find success on the platform.
Few understand the challenges and uncertainties of the dynamic job market better than the nation’s biggest recruiting agencies. From onboarding clients to managing the relationships and the hiring process, larger agencies experience the responsibilities and overhead costs associated with running a recruiting business daily.
Reflik’s unique business model tackles some of these bigger burdens head-on. As a result, larger agencies such as Lawrence Harvey and Infinity Consulting Solutions recognize the wealth of opportunity to increase the volume of placements for top clients through Reflik.
Here, we show how such firms are benefiting from utilizing this service:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the cost of a bad hire at billions of dollars to the US economy. It is not just the financial cost, though; a previously strong team can also lose productivity, morale, and time in mitigating bad decisions taken by wrong hires.
These issues can be avoided with a robust candidate vetting framework. With a reliable vetting system during recruiting, bad hires are reduced considerably. By extension, this means more successful placements and a better reputation for the recruiter, agency, or talent acquisition specialist. Here, we share key strategies on vetting candidates to secure a strong hire for your client.
Reflik, a leading talent acquisition platform, was named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 list for 2020. What is considered the largest online recruitment marketplace in the United States, has seen exponential growth in recent years, including the addition of many new Fortune 500 companies to their client list.
Reflik experienced 192% growth over the last three years, making it one of the top recruiting and sourcing services in the world today. What makes Reflik so successful is the combination of applied technology and its diverse pool of recruiters. It is a high touch meets high tech recruiting solution for companies of all sizes.
By being named to the Inc. 5000 list, they join other major brands like Intuit, Microsoft, Oracle, Pandora, Timberland, Under Armour, and many more.
It caps another great year for the talent acquisition platform which has seen revenue increase by 85% during the first half of 2020 compared to the previous year. Reflik also claimed the 2019 award for “Best Sourcing Technology” at The Workies.
“2020 brought many challenges to the world of recruiting. This global pandemic accelerated the digital transformation plans for many of our customers. Fortunately, Reflik’s model is one that allows us to support this trend and find highly qualified talent more efficiently through a single platform. The Reflik model has been able to support many recruiters, agencies, and clients despite the tumultuous 2020 we have had due to COVID-19 and the economy,” said Vachhani.
Ashish Vachhani, Reflik’s Co-founder & CEO, pointed to its innovative solution in sourcing and talent acquisition as a contributing factor to Reflik’s growth and its inclusion in the Inc. 5000 list. Reflik’s model reduces both time-to-hire and the cost of a new hire.
“We are excited to continue our year over year growth, which has put Reflik in the spotlight as a frontrunner in both the recruiting and technology industries,” CEO Ashish Vachhani added.
The recruiting industry is always evolving. The development of innovative technologies that are leveraging increasing virtual connectivity and a growing digital footprint provide access to a wider talent pool, while overcoming challenges posed by this pandemic. Below, we have compiled a list of some of the key online services, virtual interviewing tools, and mobile technologies that any independent recruiter, recruiting agency, or leading talent acquisition team can use to source and recruit top talent.
Reflik is always pleased to hear success stories from recruiters utilizing our platform. We recently spoke to Alexandra Elinsky, owner of the recruitment agency Empower Human Potential about her recent accomplishments on the platform. Alexandra started using Reflik and just three months later, made her first placement. She has since made several more placements on the Reflik platform. Here, she shares her story and offers recruiting tips and strategies for other agencies considering using Reflik to drive their business forward.
Reflik is a revolutionary technology platform that is changing the face of recruitment. Yet for all the technology, the human factor, the recruiters and recruitment agencies, are the key to Reflik’s success. InterAction24 is a recent success story; we met with them virtually to discuss how they are using Reflik to scale their recruiting agency.
Founded in 2016 by Anna Maria Silva, we were delighted to hear the great ways in which they apply Reflik’s information and methods to fill available roles.
COVID-19, or coronavirus, has forced most businesses to rethink how they run daily operations, particularly when hiring. Processes such as bringing a candidate in for an interview are no longer an option for most companies due to office safety rules. However, for businesses that are able to maintain continuity through remote work, vacancies are being filled through a fully online interview process.
Is your business looking to hire while unable to call candidates for on-site interviews?
Below are a few steps that can help you transition to interviewing virtually and hiring remotely. [Read more…]
The defense industry is presently experiencing a difficult situation. With record-high military spending, contractors and government bodies struggle to recruit enough people with relevant security clearances and skill sets. There are two reasons for this. The main reason is a shrinking pool of security-cleared candidates. The second is a backlog of applicants going through security checks; clearance can take up to a year or more. This makes recruiting for roles requiring security clearance much more difficult than it has been in the past. Many of these roles work with the Department of Defense (DoD), meaning they remain less impacted by current situations like COVID-19.
Reflik is presently seeing a greater demand for these candidates. This year alone, we have helped engineering firm, General Dynamics, and cybersecurity specialists, Newberry Group, fill many vacancies that require a security clearance. Both firms discovered that the market is in a place where candidates are more selective than ever. The question of how to recruit for clearance jobs in this difficult situation requires careful consideration and a few simple steps. [Read more…]
COO & Co-Founder, Ash Geria (left), and, Director of Community & Strategic Alliances, Scott Poniewaz (right), accept The Workies award for “Best Sourcing Technology.”
At this year’s Work Awesome conference, Reflik earned the top spot in the category of “Best Sourcing Technology” as part of 2019’s The Workies awards. Reflik edged out finalists in the category, which included runners-up, Greenhouse and JobDiva. [Read more…]
It has been a long time since the talent pool for most professional jobs was as small as it is now, something all too familiar to Dave Murry of Cloud Talent. He has been recruiting for IT and engineering roles for 25 years and is fully aware of the talent acquisition problems those industries currently face. He shares the benefits of running your recruiting business on Reflik.
Few would disagree with the assessment of the extent and depth of change in recruitment happening right now. With unemployment at an all-time low in the US, it’s getting harder for businesses to recruit the right people for the right roles. As such, more companies are turning to recruiters to fill their roles and Reflik helps recruiters spend more time finding candidates and less time chasing new clients and jobs to work on.
We spoke to him about the struggles of recruiting for IT and engineering and how Reflik’s unique model helped move his business forward.
With an increase in cyber attacks, companies and organizations are more focused than ever on increasing cybersecurity and protecting data. While big companies struggle to cope with these security breaches, small businesses are equally at risk. They’re often even a bigger target for cybercriminals because their security defenses are weaker than those of larger companies.
This means that cybersecurity professionals are more necessary than ever. But this high demand for security is creating a severe shortage of cybersecurity talent for companies of all sizes. In 2019, companies are becoming more desperate to come up with solutions for recruiting and hiring skilled professionals.
In a tight job market, the costs of hiring slowly are more significant than most hiring managers and talent acquisition teams realize. Current Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that unemployment is lower than it has been for over a decade. Industry analysts warn now that it is too low for long-term sustainability.
From a job seeker’s perspective, this is a positive situation. It means they may leave one job and experience no great difficulty in acquiring relevant employment elsewhere. From an employer’s perspective, this buyer’s market makes hiring difficult. Ghosting, where a contact goes silent and doesn’t respond to attempts at communication – a problem once limited to the world of online dating – is now common in recruitment. Employees are accepting jobs and then either canceling on the Friday before the Monday they are due to start a new job, or simply not turning up for work on day one because they had another, better, offer. [Read more…]
The professional recruitment environment has changed substantially in the last 10 years. Most industries are enjoying record-low levels of unemployment. This is good news for job seekers, but can be difficult for staffing firms and recruiters to find the right people. It also means the talent pool is smaller than ever, something that Ron Johnson of RKL Resources understands all too well. Recently, he placed a Software Engineer with one of Reflik’s longstanding clients – Fortune 500 listed company Interactive Brokers. It was another great hire for Interactive Brokers and another successful placement through the Reflik platform for a recruiter. So how do recruiting firms make placements with leading companies like Interactive Brokers, Marsh & McLennan, or Canon?
Ron shared his insights into how he was successful in finding and placing a software developer into a challenging role. The full interview can be found at the end of this article.
Evan Lerman is the Director of Recruiting at Interactive Brokers. He uses external vendors to find the best talent out there in the recruiting industry. He isn’t alone.
Outsourcing the process of finding top talent allows senior management to focus on building strategy and strengthening their company – rather than having to read thousands of resumes or worse speak to thousands of potential candidates.
Ironically, many senior talent acquisition executives wind up sifting through hundreds of emails and voice mails trying to find the right vendors for their companies. It’s especially hard when you have to keep efficiency, quality of work, and your company’s budget in mind. [Read more…]
A great recruiter is only as strong as their network of candidates. The best recruiters are consistently meeting people and building relationships. In this installment of our Lunch & Learn series, Lori Bradsell, Reflik’s Director of Strategic Accounts, walks through a variety of techniques to source passive candidates.
You can view the full webinar recording and presentation slides at the bottom of the article. [Read more…]
Hiring in IT software and hardware has always been a highly competitive area for recruitment. It’s a landscape undergoing near constant change with new technologies and challenges arriving every year. 2019 is already showing signs as being competitive in most industries; it’s called “The War for Talent” and many businesses don’t feel as though they are winning. The situation in Information Technology is particularly competitive in the world of talent acquisition.
Technologies in development and just entering the market now is adding new roles every day. Clearly, there will not be enough people to fill them. We took a deep dive into the 2019 hiring trends for software, technology and IT professionals in a recent webinar (recording here). For your convenience, we have summarized the key takeaways. [Read more…]
In 2019, it’s more important than ever for businesses to hire the right people. As more companies consolidate their recruiting vendor programs, Reflik has been playing a key role for many recruiting agencies. Christopher Tubaugh, the CEO of Colorado-based recruiting agency, Radiant Recruiting Services, understands just how much recruitment has changed in a short time. Many people like Christopher have turned to Reflik as a channel for growing their recruiting agency. He has harnessed the power of a variety of web tools to grow his business and reach out to clients, which he has adapted successfully. Part of his arsenal is Reflik.
In a recent interview, Christopher explained how Reflik is a vital link in the chain of the success of his recruitment business. “I see the future of recruiting leading to more outsourcing of HR departments,” Christopher said, acknowledging the fundamental changes and pointing out the enormous spike in agency and independent recruiters in the U.S., mimicking the situation as it currently stands in Europe.
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As an industry, engineering and construction have traditionally been areas of high employment. The trend for decreasing unemployment continued through to December 2018 across all sectors, including engineering and construction. As 2019 begins, Reflik perceives an increase of 6,000 job openings in January 2019 alone, up from 157,000 in December to around 163,000 this month. It could be a great year. The unemployment rate for this sector is steady at 1.3% for engineering, and at 3.6% for construction. Management roles in construction are currently low at 0.4%. This is mostly good news, but there are some talent acquisition issues that will need addressing as we go through the year.
We covered the research outlined below and many of these trends in our December webinar, which can be viewed by clicking here. This is a follow-up to our trends reporting for accounting & finance.
A year is a long time in technology and the past year has been heavy in innovation within the recruiting world. 2018 brought us AI and machine learning. In 2017, it was emerging but now, it’s already part of the mainstream. By the end of 2019, we expect any recruitment technology worth using will have machine learning and AI at its core. It can be hard to keep up with all the technology out there, so we compiled a list of the top candidate sourcing technologies to keep an eye on in 2019.
To ensure you can find the right candidates, you need the right technologies utilizing the most up-to-date advances. The following 20+ technologies and tools will help drive success and improve your recruiting process regardless of whether you are an independent recruiter, a recruiting agency, or leading talent acquisition for a Fortune 500 company.
2018 has been a great year for the financial services industry. Continued shrinking of the unemployment figures saw a ratio of 1:1 of job openings against unemployed figures for the first time since the year 2000. The start of 2019 will likely see 6,000 more new openings across all industries for finance and accounting roles, rising to 163,000 in January from 157,000 in December 2018. It’s looking like a great year, but one with several trends indicating potential problems if not addressed.
You can view the full webinar from December highlighting the 2019 trends for hiring accounting & finance talent below, but for your convenience, we have summarized many of the key takeaways that our research uncovered:
Frequently, recruiting firms and staffing agencies ask themselves, “how do I find more clients?” As a recruiter, you won’t need anyone to tell you that your business won’t survive long without a regular supply of new clients. Outreach can be time-consuming; in an ideal world, clients will approach you for their recruitment needs. But with a globally interconnected marketplace and a mountain of competition, that is unlikely to happen in most cases.
You can, however, improve your own outreach, use a better approach and streamline your business using some of the methods we discuss here. Alternatively, many recruiting agencies are turning to Reflik – one of the web’s top hiring marketplaces. Reflik’s technology platform allows businesses to post job orders and select candidates while Reflik’s independent recruiters and recruiting firms source top talent. Below are several sources you can use to find new clients for your recruiting business:
Note: At the request of the Talent Acquisition team at J.B. Hunt, we have not used names of J.B. Hunt employees in this blog post.
J.B. Hunt is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest transportation logistics companies in North America.
Johnnie Bryan Hunt founded his namesake company in Arkansas in August 1961. In about 20 years, from 1961 to 1983, the company transformed from a small business with about five trucks and seven refrigerated trailers to the 80th largest trucking company in the US with approximately $83 million in annual revenue.
Today, J.B. Hunt employs over 124,000 people and operates more than 12,000 trucks. Its annual revenue is estimated at $7 billion.
J.B. Hunt has entered the technology space, as well, and is now seeing a tremendous amount of success with J.B. Hunt 360. The full-service platform, with 360-degree visibility into supply chains, is the most successful digital broker in the logistics and transportation industry.
Every Friday, the recruiting team at J.B. Hunt speaks with their dedicated Reflik account manager, Anthony Fruncillo. The J.B. Hunt team put aside a few minutes toward the end of the call to speak with Reflik’s marketing and communications team about how talent crowdsourcing helped them recruit and hire a Branch Manager.
We spoke with members of the J.B. Hunt team who were all very impressed with Reflik’s process, service, and product. Each member of the team is responsible for recruiting branch-based leadership positions in different regions: the West Coast, the East Coast, and the Central Region.
On July 26th, Reflik hosted a panel discussion with three members of the Reflik recruiting community. Hundreds of agency executives and freelance recruiters registered for the webinar and asked some very interesting questions. The panelists spoke at length about talent crowdsourcing and their experience using it. They were thrilled to answer the audience’s questions.
Thribhu Chevva, the marketing and communications lead at Reflik, moderated the conversation. Eric Weissman, Jennifer Simmons, and Marzette Henderson were on the panel to discuss how talent crowdsourcing helps recruiting agencies and freelance recruiters make more money.
Eric Weissman has over 20 years of experience recruiting and has placed over 1,000 candidates in his career. He has made a number of placements on the Reflik platform and has earned thousands of dollars.
Jennifer Simmons recruited in-house as well as at agencies for over 10 years before signing up to Reflik. Reflik helped her build and scale her recruiting business. Most recently, on Reflik, Jennifer placed a tax manager at a financial services company.
Marzette is the director of operations and recruiting at one of the most successful healthcare recruiting agencies in Chicago: OmegaHealth Group. The OmegaHealth Group is a diversified healthcare company that assists healthcare organizations in their mission of helping people heal and helping to make the health system work better for everyone. Reflik is a key piece of OmegaHealth’s business development program.
Thribhu gave a brief introduction to talent crowdsourcing before the panel discussion began. Below is a quick summary of the event. Click here to watch the full webinar.
In June of this year, St. Louis-based freelance recruiter, Terence Miller, placed a candidate with J.B. Hunt and earned a sizeable placement fee. J.B. Hunt is a Fortune 500 Transportation Company dedicated to helping move freight efficiently. They were hiring a branch manager specializing in refrigerated transportation services in Dallas, TX.
Terence was determined to fill this position. “Before Reflik,” he told us, “I couldn’t have imagined recruiting for J.B. Hunt, let alone helping them recruit and hire a highly talented candidate that fit their culture perfectly. Reflik has helped me scale my recruiting business drastically.”
We spoke to Terence about this particular position and his journey to success. Here are the three ways Reflik was able to help Terence place his candidate.
“I absolutely love recruiting,” said Vanity Corbaley. “Recruiting is exhilarating. Knowing that I’m making a difference in the world is such a good feeling.”
Vanity, a human resources assistant in Seattle, has been recruiting with Reflik in her free time. Recently, she has placed a candidate with Interactive Brokers, one of Reflik’s flagship clients, and earned thousands in placement fees.
“It is fulfilling to know that, every time I make a placement, I’m helping someone find a great place to work. I’m also supporting an organization in building a solid team that will create a positive impact.”
There are very few things, she explained, that have such a broad impact. By connecting great people with amazing companies, recruiters help to shape strong, vital organizations.
“When it comes to hiring salespeople, I’m very picky,” Brandi Harris said. “Yet, I found that Reflik functions as the perfect salesperson for my company.”
Brandi has over 10 years of recruiting experience. She worked at recruiting agencies as well as on corporate talent acquisition teams. While recruiting for a non-profit early in her career, Brandi became passionate about connecting very talented individuals with organizations.
“The most important thing I look for in a potential client,” Brandi told us, “is how much they care about their customers and employees. Are they willing to care about people more than the bottom line? This is very important to me.”
Brandi favors clients who go above-and-beyond in building engaging corporate cultures, so she started her own recruiting agency that specializes in Diversity and Inclusion.
Recently, General Dynamics Mission Systems hired Brandi’s candidate, Mohammad, for an Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer. In the process, Brandi has earned thousands in placement fees.
Brandi said, “I could not be happier with a client like General Dynamics. They care tremendously about their employees and are very socially conscious.”
We sat down with Brandi to discover how this happened. For the past year-and-a-half, Brandi was down a salesperson. Between managing accounts, bringing in new customers, as well as actually recruiting and managing the candidate relationship, Brandi found her company running a little bit thin. So, how did Brandi recruit for a Fortune 500 company? How did she make a placement and earn thousands of dollars?
Brandi signed up on Reflik to take these extra sales functions off her plate, so she could focus on recruiting. Here are three reasons why Reflik is the best salesperson Brandi could have hired.
Talent Acquisition is the process of attracting, acquiring, and retaining candidates whose skills, experiences, and personalities suit the needs of an organization. Talent Acquisition has become more global and structured over time. Current trends in Talent Acquisition suggest that, going forward, Talent Acquisition will become more cost-effective, efficient, and quicker with the development of automated Talent Acquisition technologies and services.
In this blog post, we will cover:
Reflik, the leader in crowdsourcing talent, won the Investors’ Choice Award at the New Jersey Tech Council’s 21st annual Venture Conference held on April 12th. Forty of New Jersey’s most successful early-stage, high-growth companies across a number of industries competed for this prestigious award at the Conference. Reflik came on top.
“Congratulations to the Reflik team for their unique and thoughtful approach in addressing challenges around recruiting and talent acquisition,” said James Barrood, President and CEO of the NJTC. “Talent Acquisition is a hot issue, especially as companies continue to search for good people who fit very specific needs and pains,” Barrood continued. “Since the age of Thomas Edison, New Jersey has been a center of innovation excellence. Companies like Reflik carry on that proud tradition.”
We spoke with a member of the Reflik Premium Recruiter program, Jorge Morante, about his success on the Reflik platform. Jorge described three benefits of the Premium program and how they enable him to succeed on the Reflik platform:
Recruiting for over 13 years in-house and at an agency, Jorge Morante has worked for leaders in the financial services industry like First Data Corporation and Broadridge Capital as well as a variety of staffing and executive search firms in the Greater New York City area. Before beginning his recruiting career in 2003, Jorge served in the US Army Reserve and was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan shortly after 9/11.
Late last year, in October 2017, Jorge decided to work for himself as an independent recruiter. After finding Reflik on Google, Jorge decided to try talent crowdsourcing. It did not take Jorge long to upgrade his Reflik account – and join the Reflik Premium Recruiter program.
Shortly thereafter, Jorge made his first placement with Randy’s Worldwide. Recruiting a great Sales Account Manager, he earned thousands of dollars.
Here are the three top reasons Jorge chose to upgrade to a Reflik premium account.
It’s no big secret that social media (i.e. LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc) have become the standard way to source candidates. We are in the digital age after all!
However, if we want the competitive edge in 2018, we need creative ways of using these resources to our advantage. By digitizing the recruitment process, social media platforms may eliminate much of the personal connection that used to play a significant role in building trust and respect between recruiters, employers, and prospective talent.
Resumes, curriculum vitae, and portfolios are of course important, but equally important are the conversations, the stories, and the experiences. We have to get back to building relationships while still taking advantage of digital solutions. So here are five innovative sourcing strategies for recruitment.
Recruiting top talent is a skill. You must adapt to the evolving landscape of technology and the diverse personalities you encounter daily.
The most successful recruiters speak the same language as their candidates: meeting them where they are and catering to their interests.
Since sourcing strategies are ever-changing, you want to stay up to date on the best ways to source candidates by following these employee recruitment strategies. Through building a strong online presence using social media and establishing credibility, employers are more likely to identify and capture the attention of top talent.
Maria Bethancourt
On December 1st, 2017, Maria Bethancourt submitted Jessica’s application to ThinkTank Learning for their Advising Counselor position. This was just four days after the position went live on the Reflik platform.
ThinkTank Learning is the premier after-school education program in California. Steven Ma, the company’s CEO, makes a stern promise to parents: His program will get their children into the college of their choice. The numbers don’t lie. Typically, the program’s students score in the top 1% of all ACT and SAT scores.
ThinkTank wanted their next Advising Counselor to have experience in sales and have some fluency in Chinese, Korean, or an Indian language.
Maria is a lead recruiter at the recruiting agency, In The Metro.
Jessica was beyond the perfect candidate. With nearly 5 years of experience in education and sales, she is a UC Berkeley graduate and is fluent in Cantonese. Jessica currently studies Counseling Education in San Jose!
Maria was able to find and place a top candidate like Jessica with the help of feedback from the hiring managers.
For thousands of recruiters in America today, receiving constructive feedback from hiring managers is a major obstacle to finding and actually placing the perfect candidate quickly. We sat down with Maria to understand just how Reflik was able to get her the feedback she needed.
Warren Buffett is thought to have said, “Never rely on a single source of income.” The world we live in is a particularly unpredictable place. The stability of a single source of income is questionable. Additionally, the more sources of income you have, the wealthier you are. (You don’t have to be the Wizard of Omaha to know that one).
So, how do you build out your second, third, or even fourth source of income?
We sat down with Dennis Hardy to tackle this question. Dennis is a veteran IT consultant who now uses his network to earn additional income on the Reflik platform.
Magnus Textile is a Chelmsford, MA-based textile manufacturer, importer, and distributor. It offers Southern India’s finest textile products to American restaurants, hotels, as well as hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
The niche company leverages a process tested by time to produce the best textiles in the world.
“Our story begins on the manufacturing floors of our family-owned textile mills in Southern India. For generations, this renowned group of mills have produced textile products used throughout the world.” (Source: magnustextile.com)
Magnus is growing quickly and relies on recruiting and hiring top talent to fuel that growth.
From Left to Right: Edward Coady (CMO), Dev Ramasubbu (CEO), Prat Patel (COO)
According to the CMO at Magnus Textile, Edward Coady, “Reflik is a no-brainer.” With Reflik’s help, he recently hired the perfect sales manager for the niche textile company.
Before Magnus Textile, Edward worked for Launch Capital – the Venture Capital arm of the multibillion-dollar Pritzker/Vlock family. He has been a member of Boston’s Venture Capital community for over five years. In June 2017, Magnus Textile raised a round of funding from Launch Capital. This was when he jumped on board the management team at Magnus.
We sat down with Edward to get his take as an employer on Reflik. We talked about the challenges he faced while navigating today’s recruiting services landscape and how he overcame them using Reflik.
Kirthi Menon has been a recruiter for over seven years. For the past four years, Kirthi has worked for himself as a freelance recruiter. Before that, he worked at an agency.
“I chose to do freelance recruiting for two reasons,” Kirthi told us. “I wanted to work on different jobs and I wanted a steady flow of jobs. Diversity and volume were always important to me in the jobs I worked.”
About Susan: Susan Ahonen has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. She started off as a teller and, since finishing her career with Chemical Bank – New England as the Head of HR, started her own recruiting agency called Recruiting Edge Staffing.
After making her first submission on Reflik in March 2017, Susan has had a tremendous amount of success on the platform, building a lucrative recruiting agency of her own! Three different clients at Reflik have hired Susan’s candidates for Legal, Engineering, and Management positions. In addition, Susan is currently managing five shortlisted candidates – spanning the Manufacturing, Legal, and Healthcare Management verticals.
We sat down with Susan to learn more about her background as well as her experience with the Reflik platform. In the process, she gave us five reasons why she uses Reflik exclusively as a source for job requisitions – and how Reflik helps her to not just recruit better but also how it helps her to build a successful recruiting agency. Read more>>
For a long time, the staffing/recruiting industry has relied exclusively on emails and phone calls to get clients the latest updates on candidates. Likewise, clients have written emails and made phone calls to manage relationships with recruiters.
At Reflik, we’ve added another channel to this communication mix – simplifying the process and putting everything in one place.
In this Talent Acquisition Technology Update, we will cover the Notes feature. Thanks to this new feature, Reflik clients can now talk to an account manager and their candidates, review candidates’ details, and move candidates along the hiring process – all within the Jobs page of the Reflik platform. Read More>>
Independent recruiters and staffing agencies love Reflik for its service. We connect talented, hard-working recruiters and companies that are actively looking to hire. We also provide our recruiting community with technology. Our technology makes recruiting easy. In this Recruiter’s Technology Update, we will talk about the Notes feature of the Track Candidates section.
Every month, Reflik hosts a webinar for hundreds of Talent Acquisition and Recruiting leaders from companies across the US. Attendees represent a variety of verticals and industries including technology, financial services, manufacturing, legal services, healthcare, hospitality, and more.
In this month’s webinar, Reflik’s Director of Business Development Michael Bavaro discussed how crowdsourcing. Talent Crowdsourcing is a talent acquisition solution that helps hiring managers and Talent Acquisition executives recruit and hire the perfect candidates for their organizations. To talk about how Reflik’s talent acquisition solution has helped the leading legal services firm on the East Coast, Stern & Eisenberg P.C., Jorida Jaho joined the webinar.
Jorida spent a few minutes talking about how her team recruited before they began using Reflik and the talent acquisition solutions they used. She then went into detail about how Reflik’s Talent Crowdsourcing Platform helped Stern & Eisenberg recruit and hire top talent. In this quick interview, Jorida discussed why talent crowdsourcing is the talent acquisition solution of the future. She laid down three reasons:
Below is the transcribed interview – a quick excerpt of the 45-minute webinar. To watch the full webinar, click here.
A long-time New Jersey resident, Jennifer Amaefuna stopped by our offices in Somerset. Filling a position with EnvisionRx in Ohio, Jennifer has earned thousands of dollars in placement fees on the Reflik platform.
Thribhu Chevva, a digital marketing associate here at Reflik, spoke with Jennifer to understand how she started a recruitment business so early in her career and how Reflik has helped her. Read More>>
Eric Weissman, a veteran recruiter with nearly 20 years of experience in the world of recruitment consulting, recently placed a candidate at one of Reflik’s flagship clients – a Fortune 250 professional services company. He has earned thousands of dollars for this placement on the Reflik platform
We spoke with Eric on the phone to figure out just how he did it. He told us that he was successful because Reflik webinars gave him a platform to ask the 2 questions recruiters MUST ask to unlock hiring managers’ needds instantly. Read More>>
