A user from Europe asks some questions (slightly reworded), which I will answer below:
At my level and with my expertise, I usually go through a headhunter to get hired. How does the system handle this?
He gets more specific below, but just to clarify, if you only work with recruiters, I would use JibberJobber to track the recruiter (as a Contact), the recruiter’s company (as a Company – and only if it is not a one-person-company), and each job (as a Job) I learn about from the recruiter. More below…
How do I enter a job opportunity that is being proposed by a headhunter, and where I have both the headhunter contact as well as company contacts?
And here is where it gets really COOL, although I’m a little embarrassed to write this now, because we should have designed this in 8 years ago. Soon, really soon (I’m told this week) we are going to do a release to JibberJobber where we add a few more features. One of the features is the long-overdue ability to have multiple contacts and multiple companies associated to each job record. This reflects the real-world scenario of pursuing a job with a recruiter, then getting introduced to three people at a panel interview… you will be able to associate that job with all four of those people.
It gets better… see my answer to the next question…
Sometimes the headhunter does not disclose the company name or company contact. How do I handle this in the system?
This is the same issue, with a different record. We will also be able to associate multiple companies to the job. So, associate the recruiter’s company, and then when you find out what the hiring company is, add it and associate it to the job. You will even be able to prioritize the contacts and companies.
So, to let the cat out of the bag, we are doing this thing for contacts, companies and jobs, which means:
This is a great enhancement, and should make your data make a lot more sense.