Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog
Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Sapphire Consulting & Staffing is a boutique agency specializing in senior IT roles — from application development and information security to PMO and data services. Led by Nadia Gordon, MBA, PMP, Sapphire has been an active recruiting partner for four years, and their most recent placement was an IT Project Analyst.
Here’s how they did it. [Read more…]
Most independent recruiters and boutique agencies know the grind: you spend as much time chasing clients as you do actually recruiting. What if you could skip the sales cycle entirely and go straight to filling roles in your specialty?
That’s exactly what Gabriel Douglas, founder of Rogel Associates, did. Gabriel runs a boutique executive search firm in San Antonio specializing in Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) and Biomedical Equipment (BMET) roles. With eight years of recruiting experience, including scaling Optum’s hiring to over 100 hires per year and growing Network Optix from 100 to 200 employees, he knows how to find top talent. Through Reflik, he filled a technology leadership role in healthcare for Sodexo and earned thousands of dollars in placement fees, without making a single sales call. [Read more…]
At Reflik, we love celebrating the success of our recruiting partners. This month, we had the pleasure of speaking with Prestige Staffing, a well-established agency that has been in the staffing industry for over 26 years. Led by Charlotte Rea, who has been with the company for 14 years, Prestige Staffing recently made two successful placements through Reflik’s Talent Marketplace — and their journey offers valuable insights for other agencies looking to succeed on the platform. [Read more…]
Recruiting is fast-paced, highly competitive and constantly evolving. Success requires access to the right job requisitions, strong client partnerships, and technology that accelerates your workflow rather than slows it down.
Dimensional Thinking, a staffing agency with a team of over 30 recruiters, has cracked the code to consistently place top-tier talent. Their key to success? A strategic partnership with Reflik.
Nicholas O’Connor, Account Manager at Dimensional Thinking, shares insights into their successful strategies—and how you can replicate these results. [Read more…]
For over 18 years, VBeyond has been a global recruitment firm providing tailored staffing solutions and executive search services. Bhanu Pratap Singh, an Assistant Vice President at VBeyond, shared his experience working with Reflik and the positive impact it has had on their recruitment business.
Established in 2006, VBeyond has grown into a leading provider of staffing and executive search services with operations in the US, UK, and India. “We’re proud to be certified with ISO 2000 and recognized as a Great Place to Work,” shares Bhanu. He adds, “We focus on IT, banking, healthcare, engineering, and other verticals like pharmaceuticals and RPO services.”
VBeyond’s unique combination of executive search and leadership hiring has made them a key player in the recruitment industry, specializing in senior-level roles and client-specific solutions. [Read more…]
Roshan Kumar, a senior leader at Plaxonic, has seen significant growth in his recruitment agency, thanks to Reflik. Plaxonic, which started as an IT consulting firm, has now expanded into staffing and recruiting across various industries. In this interview, Roshan shares how Reflik has been instrumental in their recent success.
Plaxonic, established in 2013, initially focused on IT consulting before venturing into the staffing industry in 2019. “Staffing and recruiting have now become our primary business,” says Roshan. The agency specializes in delivering high-quality staffing solutions across a wide range of industries, including IT, healthcare, engineering, and manufacturing. “We provide both permanent and contract-based recruitment services,” he adds.
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…]
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
[Read more…]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.
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.
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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.
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>>
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>>
Meet Jennifer Simmons: With over a decade of experience in the recruiting and staffing industry as a corporate recruiter, Jennifer decided to set off by herself. She wanted to work as a freelance recruiter. For over a year now, Jennifer has done just that. She has become very familiar with recruiting online.
She has experimented with a number of services like Reflik, which bring jobs to professional recruiters who are looking to work remotely from home.
Reflik also works with staffing agencies that are looking to make more money by reducing costs in sales and business development. Read More>>
On Reflik, Dave has submitted dozens of highly-qualified candidates, has gotten plenty of interviews for his candidates, and has even made a few placements. He has earned thousands of dollars in placement fees.
That’s right. Dave works on Reflik as an independent recruiter on a part-time basis – placing candidates and earning thousands of dollars.
We spoke with Dave to see exactly how Reflik gives freelance recruiters like him the opportunity to recruit for jobs they want to work on, when and from where they want to work on them. Read more >>
“I am always looking for opportunities to apply my skill set as a recruiter to fill jobs. Reflik allows me to do just that.”
Cory has over 10 years of recruiting experience. The Ohio-native has submitted dozens of highly-qualified resumes using the Reflik platform. Most recently, he has filled two positions for The Wills Group within a month. Read more >>
For 18 months, United Initiators was looking for a Senior Sales Manager in Houston, TX. Just 2 days after they posted the position on Reflik, the perfect candidate for the role was found. He started with them in early June.
Viveka is the successful recruiter who found this candidate. He has been recruiting for the last eight years. Until about three years ago, when he decided to strike out on his own with a couple of his friends, Viveka had been recruiting for a large, multinational IT recruitment and staffing services agency.
We spoke with Viveka about his recruitment methodology, what he thinks about Reflik, and most importantly how he was able to fill such a hard-to-fill position so quickly. Read more >>
For over 15 years, working on the corporate side as well as the agency side, Mario Renzulli has been helping organizations meet their hiring needs. He began his career back in 2000 at an agency in New York. Until Winter 2016, when he decided to recruit on his own, Mario was the Director of Corporate Recruiting at a tech company in Boca Raton, Florida.
Mario is certainly no stranger to the recruiting/staffing industry. He is an expert in acquiring and delivering top talent. Yet, the issue that Mario faced as an independent recruiter was gathering meaningful feedback and insight from employers. Read more >>
As a business head for Blue Ocean Ventures, a recruitment business, Fahad Mistry has much to handle. His many tasks include calling his account managers to find out which requirements are most important, relaying these details to his team succinctly, and delegating the recruitment process steps to the rest of his team.
This all can be a lot to handle for any talent acquisition agency. To be as efficient as possible for the company, Fahad manages offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Bangalore, India. “We work with two strategic verticals. This way we can approach different technical jobs efficiently,” Fahad said.
Despite all these efforts at efficiency, Blue Ocean Ventures always experienced the typical recruitment agency struggles. Read more>>
Denise has been a recruiter for 12 years and the president of Client Growth Consultants, a recruiting and consulting agency, for 3 years. Denise prides herself on creating a happy relationship between a candidate and a company, particularly in the manufacturing industry.
Denise achieves this by working with a team of researchers who are responsible for tracking job description updates and candidates’ progress in the recruitment cycle. Working with researchers is an important aspect of Denise’s dynamic recruitment methods. Read more>>
Marzette Henderson is the kind of recruiter who looks at the bigger picture of things, especially in the staffing/recruitment industry. He enjoys knowing that his work as a recruiter brings positive, impactful change in the lives of his candidates. Marzette explains, “I just love to connect people with opportunity. I hope that the opportunities I present to my candidates will allow them to provide for their families, improve their professional careers, and give them a sense of purpose.”
Henderson finds fulfillment in tasks that may seem mundane. “I just love it all: the whole process of recruiting, even checking emails, making calls, networking.” Nevertheless, he finds that staying on top of the political, social, and economic context in which recruiters do their work is as important as these day-to-day tasks.
“The changes happening to recruiting are bigger than the field itself.” As a 12-year veteran in recruiting, specializing in the healthcare industry, Henderson understands the influence policy has on recruiting. The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has created nearly one million jobs. Changes to this Act by the new administration, then, can certainly affect America’s job market.
Marzette Henderson
However, for Henderson, “the recruiting industry is still the [best] it has ever been in a long time. There are more opportunities, more platforms, and resources to help recruiters. Because of all this, recruiters are more empowered.” Technology offsets the tumultuous changes caused by social, economic, and political changes.
Reflik is able to do this by crowdsourcing talent. Before Reflik, indeed, a variety of variables destabilized the recruiting industry and kept recruiters from recruiting – none of which were necessarily a recruiter’s merit. Recruiters were bogged down by trying to acquire new business – whether that meant finding work at an agency or becoming an approved vendor. Employers could hire only so many recruiters. So, no matter how good a recruiter was at filling jobs, they were unable to recruit.
Reflik simplifies the whole process, stripping recruiting down to its most important function: finding top candidates. We’ve got jobs. You’ve got candidates. It is just that easy.
Henderson concluded: “I believe Reflik is a blessing to the industry. It lowers the barrier of entry for anyone who wants to recruit. It is easy to use and straightforward.” There are jobs of all kinds, cutting across functions and industries.
Jennifer Sprague has been recruiting on Reflik’s Talent Crowdsoucring Platform for the past 4 months and has found great joy in being able to approach the platform with her own style of recruiting tactics.
Sprague, like many recruiters or owners of recruiting firms, feels that bringing the business in is one of the toughest parts of the recruiting business. “Ideally, I would just like my focus to be on the actual recruiting rather than searching for new clients.” 
Trying to find the balance between the search for clients that suit your expertise and for more well-known employers can be tough. Sprague had explained to us that Reflik’s Talent Crowdsourcing Platform allows her to focus on what she loves doing: recruiting. “I love being able to make the perfect match for both sides – the client and the jobseeker. Recruiters need to remember to make their candidates happy as well as their clients.”
Sprague is the kind of recruiter who really takes the extra step on coaching her candidates through the job seeking process. “You need to be able to look at someone and see beyond what they have said they are good at. You need to see what kind of skills are transferable to certain roles.”
She believes that one of her recruiting tactics is to act as a guide for her candidates, helping them to land their dream job. “Looking beyond [the usual recruiting attitude] also applies to years of experience. There are some brilliant minds who may not have the traditional 4-year bachelor’s degree. I think that industries should be aware of these types of people and be more open to people who may not have a traditional education.”
Another of Sprague’s recruiting tactics when it comes to talent acquisition is to follow the news and current events closely. “My trick is to read the news closely. Wherever I see a lot of lay-offs happening, I scan Linkedin for people from particular areas or companies now in need of jobs.” Sprague continued to explain that, “when it comes to sourcing, recruiters cannot be passive.”
She firmly believes that you need to be constantly up to date and dynamic in your search, which is another reason why she loves Reflik. Sprague finds the Tuesday Update Calls with Eduard Tilihoi (the account manager here at Reflik), the job insights, and intake sessions with the employers to be perfectly in line with her proactive recruiting style. In addition, the availability and responsiveness of the account managers suites her needs as well.
Overall Sprague encourages any hard-working recruiter who is looking for supplemental work to his or her full time positions or an abundance of jobs to fill, to join Reflik. “Reflik truly stands out with its easy to use platform and engaging account managers!”
“I recently received a text from a candidate, whom I had placed, stating how the new job changed his life,” Jenna explained to us. She feels that getting to know someone and making a positive impact in their life is truly rewarding for a recruiter.
Jenna Leach has been a recruiter for about three years. We got the opportunity to get her input on how to be a good recruiter and ultimately a recruiter who cares.
According to her, success comes from going beyond the resume. “Getting to know a human being rather than a piece of paper.” She believes success comes from being able to look past long, impersonal emails and trying to make a genuine connection with a candidate. We all know that nobody likes to be treated as a number or a chore.
We then moved on to discussing her recruiting experience using Reflik. She has been using Reflik for four months now and has successfully filled an Accounts Payable Specialist position at The Wills Group. “I liked that Reflik’s platform allowed for the recruitment process to be smooth. I also found the platform to be very user-friendly.” She also explained that Reflik has jobs from various industries and functional roles, and it enables her to expand her boundaries as a recruiter.
So finally how can one become a good recruiter? According to Jenna, it takes the right attitude, approach, and tools to become a good talent searcher and change some lives!
Barbara Taylor was an IT manager for twenty years. In 2008, when the economy slowed down, she became one of the 3 million Americans who were laid off that year.
Though a set-back, this bad news did not hold Barbara back. She began applying to jobs and finally a company hired her as a corporate recruiter.
“I knew what recruiters do,” she told me. “I thought I would be good at it. So I went for it.” Keep Reading
Being a Human Resources professional for over 15 years, I have had to take on many responsibilities. What has always been the most enjoyable for me is talent acquisition – finding great people to work for remarkable companies. Recruiting is my passion.
Recruiters have certain pain points, certain ambitions and dreams, and a unique perspective that no single solution can fully appreciate. At these points, we dream of a simple solution. We want a way to realize our potential. We want a solution that integrates smoothly with our workflows, with the way we look at the world.
When the Reflik Team asked me to write a quick blog post about the platform, with little hesitation, I began jotting down the five reasons why every recruiter should use Reflik today. Recruiters have always wanted to use a talent crowdsourcing platform like Reflik. Here is why:
My area of expertise is recruiting in the manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain spaces. This is what I am most comfortable doing. Reflik allows me to thrive in my comfort zone and gives me the opportunity to extend my reach. I’ve always wanted to explore talent acquisition in the IT space; Reflik allows me to do just that.
Recruiting is challenging. Finding good people can be difficult and, in times when the economy is not doing so well, companies are simply not hiring. Reflik solves this problem through sheer volume.Reflik essentially has two crowds – the recruiters and the employers.By having so many employers on the platform, Reflik provides its recruiting community with plenty of quality jobs that need to be filled.Moreover, there is always a job on the platform for any kind of professional. I find myself submitting candidates for certain positions that I find while sourcing for other positions. This is possible only because Reflik has a lot of jobs that need to be filled.
Reflik integrates seamlessly with my sourcing strategy. To sell a job to a candidate – the essence of recruiting – I need a job that pays well. The company that is trying to fill that job must be reputable, as well.Reflik seems to only have good jobs and highly reputable clients, differentiating itself from similar services out there for independent recruiters. This allows me to be very productive and efficient in the way I source candidates.
Reflik is a great platform for lulls. When I am running low on jobs that I can work on, the Reflik platform is a great source for more work. It is a great way to refer candidates that I haven’t been able to submit to other jobs that I have worked on in the past.
Reflik’s communication is superb. Recruiters need constant feedback to fully appreciate the kind of person a company wants. The Reflik Team – composed of dedicated Account Managers and a Community Manager – provides the entire Reflik recruiter community with great feedback and much-needed information.The Reflik Team is willing to help, bridging the gap between hiring managers and recruiters. They are very easy to reach. I have the email addresses, as well as the phone numbers, of the Account Managers and the Community Manager. The chat box feature on the website is an added bonus. Moreover, the webinar and weekly phone calls make communication quick, easy, and constant – perfect for recruiters.
Cherri Politis
I am impressed with how well the Reflik team communicates with the recruiting community. They respond quickly and effectively. Overall, the line of communication between Reflik, its community of recruiters, and the clients is superb. I have never experienced anything like that – it is unlike any of the other services out there.
The platform itself is a powerful and straightforward kind of recruiting software. Whether you’ve been recruiting for over 20 years or have just begun recruiting, the interface is intuitive and easy to navigate. It seems to be designed to find the right people for all kinds of jobs – the essence of recruiting. There is never a lack of jobs on the platform. I get all the information I need when I need it. And yet I don’t find myself having to spend time and money attempting to learn the system.
The candidate pipeline feature is helpful: recruiters have access to information about where candidates’ resumes are in the hiring process.
I’ve been a recruiter for 20 years. I opened up my own staffing agency, Direct 4U Recruiting, about a month ago. I use Reflik to get the jobs I work on. Reflik is fabulous and easy to use.
Shortly before transitioning into independent recruiting, I was a recruiter in the aeronautic industry. Even though I was a top recruiter, the company I worked for had to cut my recruiting fees. I didn’t like how unpredictable corporate recruiting was becoming. So, I decided to recruit by myself. Reflik was the perfect place to start.
There are plenty of positions on the platform. They are of different kinds – such as IT and management. These different positions are all easy to find.
I don’t have a lot of experience here, but with the help of Relik’s community manager and the team of account managers, learning has become a quick process. They are easy to talk to.
Reflik is easy to use. The staff works to make it easy to source the right candidate. Job Descriptions are effective.
I love Reflik’s “Job Insights” feature. It explains exactly what I should be looking for in my candidates. As far as I know, there is literally nothing like it out there today.
Susan, the account manager I work the closest with, provides me with deep insight into what it takes to get my candidate an offer. She draws out the exact picture of what employers want.David, the community manager, answers any question I have at any time.
During off-duty hours, I love using the chat box conveniently housed on Reflik’s main page. The responses are quick and effective, as is expected from Reflik.
What I love about Reflik the most is that it is free for independent recruiters to sign up. It’s a risk-free entrance into independent recruiting. I love it. I was skeptical, at first, to try independent recruiting. After finding corporate recruiting to be less than what I wanted, I decided to open up my own recruiting firm. I went all in. I took the risk. And Reflik was there to guide me every step of the way in a very simple and easy to use kind of way.
