Expand Your Candidate Reach With a Recruiting Network and One Trusted Partner

Imagine giving your open roles the reach of 550 recruiting firms and 1,100+ recruiters while working with just one trusted recruiting partner.

Instead of relying on the reach of one recruiter—or managing relationships with several recruiting firms—you can combine the advantages of both approaches.

You maintain one trusted recruiting relationship while gaining access to a much larger recruiting network.

For companies struggling to fill important positions, that can mean greater candidate reach, access to specialized recruiters, and fewer recruiting relationships for your team to manage.

A Recruiting Network Creates More Paths to the Right Candidate

Think about a difficult position you’ve tried to fill.

You post the job. You search databases. You review applicants. Maybe you give the position to one or two recruiters.

But you’re still working within a limited candidate pool.

The person you need may never see your job posting.

They may already be working. They may not be actively looking. They may not have updated their résumé in years.

But they may already have a relationship with a recruiter.

That’s where a recruiting network can become valuable.

Different recruiters develop different candidate relationships. They work in different industries, occupations, and geographic markets.

One may know an experienced manufacturing leader.

Another may specialize in mechanical or electrical engineers.

Another may have spent years developing candidate relationships in a specific city or region.

The objective isn’t simply to have more recruiters.

It’s to create more paths to the right candidate.

One Trusted Recruiting Partner Makes the Process Simpler

There’s an obvious way to expand your recruiting reach.

Work with more recruiting firms.

But that can create a new problem.

Someone on your team has to manage them.

You may have multiple points of contact. Multiple recruiters may need feedback. Your hiring managers may find themselves explaining the same position and requirements again and again.

There’s a simpler approach.

One trusted recruiting partner. One point of contact. One relationship to manage.

Behind that relationship can be a much larger recruiting network helping identify the talent you need.

You gain greater recruiting reach without adding more recruiting relationships for your team to manage.

One Trusted Partner Can Connect Your Openings With 1,100+ Recruiters

This is where Ridgeback Recruiting comes into the picture.

Our approach allows clients to work directly with Ridgeback while giving us the ability to tap into a much larger recruiting network when a search requires it.

Our network includes:

• 550 active recruiting firms
• 1,100+ recruiters
• 25,000+ placements made
• 500+ placements annually in recent years

But those numbers aren’t important simply because they’re large.

They’re important because of what they can mean for your search.

More candidate relationships.

More industry specialties.

More geographic coverage.

More recruiters who may already know someone with the skills and experience you need.

And more ways to reach people your existing recruiting efforts may never find.

You work with one trusted partner. We bring the recruiting network to your search.

Our Recruiting Network Is Strong in Manufacturing and Engineering

A large recruiting network becomes even more valuable when you’re searching for specialized talent.

Approximately 50% of our network’s placements are in Manufacturing and Engineering.

The overall placement mix includes:

Manufacturing — 28%
Engineering — 22%
Healthcare — 19%
Accounting & Finance — 10%
Technology — 10%
Other Industries — 11%

That experience aligns particularly well with many of the positions we recruit at Ridgeback.

For a manufacturer searching for an engineer, plant leader, operations professional, or other hard-to-find specialist, we’re not limited to the candidates who happen to apply.

Instead of only asking:

“Where else can we post this job?”

We can ask:

“Who in our recruiting network may already know the person we’re looking for?”

That’s a very different approach to recruiting.

A Recruiting Network Can Help Reach “Passive Candidates”

Some of the best potential candidates aren’t looking for another job.

They’re already working.

They’re probably not visiting your careers page.

And they may never see your job posting.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean they wouldn’t consider the right position.

These passive candidates may already have relationships with recruiters who know their background, experience, and career goals.

That’s another reason a recruiting network can be valuable.

Instead of relying solely on applicants and résumé databases, your search can reach recruiters who have spent years developing relationships within their markets.

Sometimes the right candidate isn’t someone you need to find from scratch.

They’re someone a recruiter already knows.

Technology and a Recruiting Network Can Expand Your Reach

Technology has changed recruiting.

We now have better candidate databases, sourcing platforms, AI, and automation.

Those tools can help identify potential candidates faster.

But technology alone doesn’t recruit someone.

People do.

A database might identify someone with the right job title.

A recruiter still needs to determine whether that person has the right experience, whether they’re willing to listen, and whether your position makes sense for them.

At Ridgeback, we combine recruiting technology with experienced recruiters and the reach of a much larger recruiting network.

Our objective isn’t to send you more résumés.

It’s to help you reach more of the right people.

Put Our Recruiting Network to Work With One Trusted Partner

If you’re struggling to fill an important position, another job posting may not solve the problem.

Adding several recruiting firms may simply give your team more relationships to manage.

There’s another approach.

Work with one trusted recruiting partner that can give your search access to a recruiting network of:

550 recruiting firms.

1,100+ recruiters.

25,000+ placements made.

And approximately 50% of those placements have been in Manufacturing and Engineering.

You maintain one trusted recruiting relationship.

We help provide the additional reach.

One trusted partner. A recruiting network of 1,100+ recruiters. More ways to find the people you need.

If you’ve got an important position that’s been difficult to fill, let’s talk.

Tell us who you’re trying to hire. We’ll show you how Ridgeback and our recruiting network can help find them.

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