Resources

🚨 Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 19 🚨

Welcome to Week 19 of my ‘Basic Recruiting Stuff’ series- your weekly dose of recruiting fundamentals, common pitfalls, and practical solutions from nearly two decades in the search business.​

💥This Week’s Focus: Talent Mapping as a Strategic Weapon💥

✅ What Should Happen: You have access to a living, breathing map of the entire talent landscape: who exists, where they sit, what they cost, and why they’re movable. You make hiring decisions with actual intelligence instead of vibes and wishful thinking.​

🚩 What Usually Happens: You post a job, shake the LinkedIn tree, and call whatever falls out “the market.” Your vendor list is a graveyard of broken promises racing each other for the easiest placements, not the best talent. You’re paying premium prices for Walmart-quality recruiting, and your “search strategy” is just whoever shows up in the first two pages of results.

💡 Why It Matters: When you operate blind, you overpay, under-hire, and convince yourself “there’s just no talent out there” while your competitors quietly scoop up the people you never even saw. Bad or non-existent mapping turns every critical hire into a slow-motion, brand-damaging disaster.​

🛠️ The ATS Approach: Asymmetric starts every search with complete market mapping 600–800+ profiles, 65–75% reach, across the full addressable field, not just the easy-to-find usual suspects. We weaponize data: industry-leading sourcing, validated contact info, and multi-channel engagement that hits 3x the response rates and unlocks 5x more qualified talent than the volume shops. Clients see everything in our transparent portal and they make fast, confident decisions instead of guessing in the dark. This is sandwiched between comprehensive compensation research and behavioral assessments.

🎯 The Takeaway: If you don’t know the market, you don’t own the market, you’re just another victim getting fleeced by incompetence.