In Live Webcast, The Good Search Shares 'Secret Sauce' for Recruiting Top Talent

WESTPORT, Conn., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Good Search, LLC, a Westport, CT-based, next-generation executive search firm specializing in investigative recruitment, hosted the complimentary Webcast "Recruiting Smarter: Search as Investigation" on July 14, 2010. Featured in an event organized by HR.com entitled "Web 2.0 and the Staffing Process," the gathering was designed to educate human resources professionals on the latest recruitment "best practices." As jobs have become increasingly more specialized, one of the greatest challenges in recruitment is finding qualified candidates.  The Good Search, LLC has innovated an investigative approach to sourcing and recruiting talent. In fact, the Webcast was hosted by the firm's CEO, who is a former award-winning investigative reporter and television journalist. Since 1999, Krista Bradford has built a successful recruitment business by leveraging the same investigative techniques learned and practiced in her prior career. 

The hour-long session was attended by nearly 150 professionals and focused on sharing how to recruit from competitors by mapping the talent that you want to go after.  The investigative approach yields better results by surfacing and placing top executives more quickly and effectively than traditional methods.  Moreover, it offers an unprecedented level of due diligence. Key topics covered during the session included:

• Why recruiting "passive" candidates yields better results
• How to avoid wasting time recruiting the wrong candidates
• Why taking a shotgun approach will cause you to fail
• How to leverage Dice for more than active candidates
• How to intrigue and ultimately recruit a rock star

Ms. Bradford shared her "secret sauce" for mastering the art of discovering top talent for some of the most successful corporations in the world.  In addition, she detailed several dos and don'ts to finding and engaging potential candidates.  Said Kyle Schafroth, who attended the event, "What I appreciated was that it wasn't just a sales pitch, and that the information was well organized and really presented a solution. It wasn't just some theoretical musings ... Krista knows her stuff."

"I'm encouraged that so many attendees were interested in taking a more serious approach to recruiting. For far too long, too many people who call themselves 'executive search consultants' have mindlessly gone about the work of recruiting," Ms. Bradford explained.  "The typical recruiter draws up a list of names, willy-nilly, of people that look like they 'might' be right.  It's guess work that isn't rooted in serious investigative research.  What we recommend is an approach that maps every potential candidate at the top target companies, which are typically an employer's competitors. Then all you need to do is recruit those individuals.  It is as simple as it gets, but it is a lesson the industry seems to have missed."

About The Speaker

Krista Bradford is a three-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and television journalist and CEO and founder of The Good Search, LLC. She is a member of the International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment (IACPR), the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA), the Connecticut Venture Group, and a lifetime member of Net Impact. She has extensive experience in search and recruiting consulting.

About The Good Search, LLC

The Good Search, LLC is a next-generation executive search company specializing in finding, contacting, engaging, and ultimately recruiting senior executives and mission-critical talent. The company uses its expert recruiting techniques to find the best candidates in less time. For more information, visit the company website at www.thegoodsearchllc.com or call 203.539.0847.

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