Hishem Azzouz covers the fundamentals recruiters skip: networking and attending events, leveraging your placed candidates and client relationships, and asking business leaders directly for referrals to build your candidate pool.
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if you know one person, they will know someone here, etc., etc. You know, hey, that's what we do as recruiters. Our job in a sense is to network. You know, we're talking to people all day, we're talking to clients all day, we're talking to candidates all day. We find everyone knows each other. So I would say really, really latch on to your network and going to events, you know, or like you said, if you know a candidate and you've placed them, what's the company that they've came from, what colleagues do they have? If you are working with a leader in the business, you know, if you're taking them out for a drink, you know, meeting them up for a meeting, you're going to be saying, you know, who do you know, and just talk about the market.