For 18 months, United Initiators was looking for a Senior Sales Manager in Houston, TX. Just 2 days after they posted the position on Reflik, the perfect candidate for the role was found. He started with them in early June.

Viveka is the successful recruiter who found this candidate. He has been recruiting for the last eight years. Until about three years ago, when he decided to strike out on his own with a couple of his friends, Viveka had been recruiting for a large, multinational IT recruitment and staffing services agency.

We spoke with Viveka about his recruitment methodology, what he thinks about Reflik, and most importantly how he was able to fill such a hard-to-fill position so quickly. Read more >>

For over 15 years, working on the corporate side as well as the agency side, Mario Renzulli has been helping organizations meet their hiring needs. He began his career back in 2000 at an agency in New York. Until Winter 2016, when he decided to recruit on his own, Mario was the Director of Corporate Recruiting at a tech company in Boca Raton, Florida.

Mario is certainly no stranger to the recruiting/staffing industry. He is an expert in acquiring and delivering top talent. Yet, the issue that Mario faced as an independent recruiter was gathering meaningful feedback and insight from employers. Read more >>

Jennifer Sprague has been recruiting on Reflik’s Talent Crowdsoucring Platform for the past 4 months and has found great joy in being able to approach the platform with her own style of recruiting tactics.

Sprague, like many recruiters or owners of recruiting firms, feels that bringing the business in is one of the toughest parts of the recruiting business. “Ideally, I would just like my focus to be on the actual recruiting rather than searching for new clients.” 

Trying to find the balance between the search for clients that suit your expertise and for more well-known employers can be tough. Sprague had explained to us that Reflik’s Talent Crowdsourcing Platform allows her to focus on what she loves doing: recruiting. “I love being able to make the perfect match for both sides – the client and the jobseeker. Recruiters need to remember to make their candidates happy as well as their clients.”

Sprague is the kind of recruiter who really takes the extra step on coaching her candidates through the job seeking process. “You need to be able to look at someone and see beyond what they have said they are good at. You need to see what kind of skills are transferable to certain roles.”

She believes that one of her recruiting tactics is to act as a guide for her candidates, helping them to land their dream job. “Looking beyond [the usual recruiting attitude] also applies to years of experience. There are some brilliant minds who may not have the traditional 4-year bachelor’s degree. I think that industries should be aware of these types of people and be more open to people who may not have a traditional education.”

Another of Sprague’s recruiting tactics when it comes to talent acquisition is to follow the news and current events closely. “My trick is to read the news closely. Wherever I see a lot of lay-offs happening, I scan Linkedin for people from particular areas or companies now in need of jobs.” Sprague continued to explain that, “when it comes to sourcing, recruiters cannot be passive.”

She firmly believes that you need to be constantly up to date and dynamic in your search, which is another reason why she loves Reflik. Sprague finds the Tuesday Update Calls with Eduard Tilihoi (the account manager here at Reflik), the job insights, and intake sessions with the employers to be perfectly in line with her proactive recruiting style. In addition, the availability and responsiveness of the account managers suites her needs as well.

Overall Sprague encourages any hard-working recruiter who is looking for supplemental work to his or her full time positions or an abundance of jobs to fill, to join Reflik. “Reflik truly stands out with its easy to use platform and engaging account managers!”

“I recently received a text from a candidate, whom I had placed, stating how the new job changed his life,” Jenna explained to us. She feels that getting to know someone and making a positive impact in their life is truly rewarding for a recruiter.

Jenna Leach has been a recruiter for about three years. We got the opportunity to get her input on how to be a good recruiter and ultimately a recruiter who cares.

According to her, success comes from going beyond the resume. “Getting to know a human being rather than a piece of paper.” She believes success comes from being able to look past long, impersonal emails and trying to make a genuine connection with a candidate. We all know that nobody likes to be treated as a number or a chore.

We then moved on to discussing her recruiting experience using Reflik. She has been using Reflik for four months now and has successfully filled an Accounts Payable Specialist position at The Wills Group. “I liked that Reflik’s platform allowed for the recruitment process to be smooth. I also found the platform to be very user-friendly.” She also explained that Reflik has jobs from various industries and functional roles, and it enables her to expand her boundaries as a recruiter.

So finally how can one become a good recruiter? According to Jenna, it takes the right attitude, approach, and tools to become a good talent searcher and change some lives!

Cherri Politis

I am impressed with how well the Reflik team communicates with the recruiting community. They respond quickly and effectively. Overall, the line of communication between Reflik, its community of recruiters, and the clients is superb. I have never experienced anything like that – it is unlike any of the other services out there.

The platform itself is a powerful and straightforward kind of recruiting software. Whether you’ve been recruiting for over 20 years or have just begun recruiting, the interface is intuitive and easy to navigate. It seems to be designed to find the right people for all kinds of jobs – the essence of recruiting. There is never a lack of jobs on the platform. I get all the information I need when I need it. And yet I don’t find myself having to spend time and money attempting to learn the system.

The candidate pipeline feature is helpful: recruiters have access to information about where candidates’ resumes are in the hiring process.

I have been a recruiter for six years. I opened up my own recruiting firm, The Gardell Group, nine months ago. I’ve been using Reflik for the last six months to get the jobs we work on at Gardell. Reflik is the best service for independent recruiters that I have tried so far.

Before opening up my own recruiting firm, I was recruiting in the consulting space in San Diego. After seeing some serious success, I decided to try recruiting on my own. The opportunity to have work-life balance and have choice in the kinds of jobs I work drove me to try out independent recruiting.

Reflik has enabled me to do what I wanted to do with independent recruiting. The platform has a substantial volume of open jobs and the placement fees at Reflik are the best out there. These two features make Reflik the best service for independent recruiters.

Moreover, working on Reflik’s platform has given me the opportunity to work on jobs that I want to work on – in the tech space as well as other jobs, like those in the healthcare industry and logistics. This kind of diversity in job orders is something corporate recruiters and independent recruiters who are just starting out do not have access to. Thank you, Reflik!

Currently, I work very closely with Ed, an account manager at Reflik. We discuss candidate updates. I also make use of the weekly conference calls, as much as I can, to talk about the newest jobs posted on the platform. Recruiters need information on how far along their candidates are in the pipeline. Reflik does a great job with this.
I also appreciate the Job Insight feature on the platform. Job Descriptions tend to lack details and are not very specific. The Job Insight feature on Reflik fills the gap.

I would strongly urge recruiters who want to go on their own to give Reflik a try.

I’ve been a recruiter for 20 years. I opened up my own staffing agency, Direct 4U Recruiting, about a month ago. I use Reflik to get the jobs I work on. Reflik is fabulous and easy to use.

Shortly before transitioning into independent recruiting, I was a recruiter in the aeronautic industry. Even though I was a top recruiter, the company I worked for had to cut my recruiting fees. I didn’t like how unpredictable corporate recruiting was becoming. So, I decided to recruit by myself. Reflik was the perfect place to start.

There are plenty of positions on the platform. They are of different kinds – such as IT and management. These different positions are all easy to find.

I don’t have a lot of experience here, but with the help of Relik’s community manager and the team of account managers, learning has become a quick process. They are easy to talk to.

Reflik is easy to use. The staff works to make it easy to source the right candidate. Job Descriptions are effective.

I love Reflik’s “Job Insights” feature. It explains exactly what I should be looking for in my candidates. As far as I know, there is literally nothing like it out there today.

Susan, the account manager I work the closest with, provides me with deep insight into what it takes to get my candidate an offer. She draws out the exact picture of what employers want.David, the community manager, answers any question I have at any time.

During off-duty hours, I love using the chat box conveniently housed on Reflik’s main page. The responses are quick and effective, as is expected from Reflik.

What I love about Reflik the most is that it is free for independent recruiters to sign up. It’s a risk-free entrance into independent recruiting. I love it. I was skeptical, at first, to try independent recruiting. After finding corporate recruiting to be less than what I wanted, I decided to open up my own recruiting firm. I went all in. I took the risk. And Reflik was there to guide me every step of the way in a very simple and easy to use kind of way.