This document summarizes the key challenges and strategies for a recruitment team during an economic downturn. The recruitment team is facing a slowdown in hiring while also needing to balance proactive and reactive strategies. Some advantages in a downturn include less competition, easier candidate attraction, and lower staff turnover. The recruitment team's response is to maximize their brand online and offline, exploit all talent pools including internal talent and external networks, and focus on metrics to measure return on investment. The document discusses various brand marketing initiatives online and offline as well as focusing on internal employee referrals, age and gender diversity, talent reviews, and building external relationships.