Tegze - Full Stack Recruiter : The Modern Recruiters Guide

Full Stack Recruiter

The Modern Recruiter's Guide

By

Jan Tegze

First Published In 2017 by Jan Tegze. Copyright 2017 Jan Tegze

Book design by Tom Zeman

ISBN 978-80-270-2615-9

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CONTENTS

There's an old African proverb that says, If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Writing this book would not have been possible without the support of those that joined me on my journey to becoming a published author. I would like to thank everyone for their help, assistance, and patience, especially: Mark Tortorici, Justin Clem, Sarah E. Goldberg, Gabriela Benkov, Aaron Pullman, Maisha L. Cannon, Aneka Mller, and Oldich Tegze.

Everything starts somewhere. And because knowledge of the past is key to understanding the present, let's begin with a brief history of recruitment.

Many people think that recruitment is a relatively new field, and that the recruiter's position is quite a new job role on the market. But recruitment is not such a modern industry. In fact, the first recruitment activities and techniques originated in ancient Egyptian and Roman times. Information about the first "recruiters" began around 55 BC, when the first referral program was born.

Julius Caesar offered three hundred sestertii to any soldier who recruited someone into the Roman army. The payment represented 30% of a soldier's yearly salary; it reflected how serious the Romans were about finding soldiers. Caesar probably created the first referral program in the world, and soldiers became the first recruiters.

One of the oldest references to a public employment agency is from the year 1650. Henry Robinson proposed an "Office of Addresses and Encounters." Its goal would be to link employers with workers. His proposal was rejected by the British Parliament, but nevertheless, he opened a short-lived private recruiting business.

Military activities continued to play a role in recruitment. One of the earliest recruitment posters was for the Confederate States of America: "To Arms! To Arms!"

WW2 Era

The "modern" recruitment field started in the 1940s as a result of World War II. After the army recruited men to fight abroad, their jobs at home needed to be filled, so the first employment agencies were established to recruit people to fill these open vacancies. After World War II, the main job of these recruitment agencies was to help veterans find jobs, so resume-writing became one of the standard practice of recruiters.

Pre-Computer Era

When the US economy started growing, the role of recruiters evolved, and they started helping companies find the right people, as the companies started to outsource their recruitment activities to agencies.

Active candidates were often found jobs via bulletin boards, and in local or national newspapers, where job offerings and adverts were posted by companies and agencies. Personal recommendation and word-of-mouth referrals were also featured. Passive candidates were found through databases, which were full of paper resumes in physical archives.

The most advanced tool that recruiters had in that era was the landline telephone. Interviews were mostly face-to-face meetings in offices or restaurants. Due to the difficulty of job searches then, most candidates spent their whole careers working for one single company.

Pre-Web Era

Then computers started playing a bigger role in the hiring process. When the first new application of tracking systems started to emerge, companies could electronically track and organize candidates. For recruiters, the distribution channels were almost the same as in the pre-computer era.

World Wide Web Era

When the internet started to become popular, candidates could search for jobs online. Access to the internet was limited during that time, but companies slowly started to publish online career pages, and many new job boards appeared on the internet. CareerBuilder was founded in 1995; it was the first major online job board.

If you like learning this history, you can visit Wayback Machine (www.archive.org) and see what the first version of careerbuilder.com looked like.