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Gary Cluff

Gary Cluff is a highly regarded national authority on recruitment trends and employment practices. He is frequently featured as a speaker at regional and national conferences of HR professionals and recruiters. His experience includes more than 25 years in human resources management roles with Owens Corning Fiberglas, Contel/GTE, PRC, the Federal Government, and the MITRE Corporation. Gary is also known for creating the Cost Per Hire Survey for the Employment Management Association. He is the founder of Project SAVE in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, which has served as a cost-free network for over 450 regional recruiters and staffing professionals since 1990. Gary is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, where he received a Bachelors degree in Psychology, and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

Articles by Gary Cluff

Corporate Sourcing, Leadership

Making Hiring Hits Out of Near Sourcing Misses: Running an Internal “Open House”

by on Jul. 29, 2011

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A frequently recurring frustration of a good sourcing recruiter is the ‘laissez-faire’ attitude of many hiring managers. We dedicate ourselves to finding and attracting well-qualified candidates on a timely basis only to receive, in turn, a non-specific “not quite what I‘m looking for” response, or no response at all.

My remedy for this persistent corporate malady is the periodic invitational open house. Every two to three months, I reserve our conference center for half of a day and invite all hiring departments to participate in an in-house job fair. My recruiters and I then invite some of the highly qualified candidates we have sourced and recruited or received via employee referral over the past several months who have yet to be interviewed by any of our managers.

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