Most everyone would agree that the most important factor in determining the long-term level of profitability for your firm is your ability to attract, hire, train, maintain and retain consistent producers. However, many owners and managers believe that having high turnover of recruiters and professional staff is just part of
Many, many people don’t like math. Some of those people are recruiters by trade. But what about metrics? Recruiting metrics involve math, but are they assigned the same disdain? Well, math for math’s sake does little to generate excitement. However, math for the sake of making more money could very
If there was ever a profession that involved strategy, it’s recruiting. Recruiting strategies are essential to success, there are no two ways about it. But before we kick into high gear, let’s set the stage with a definition. Because clearly defining the parameters is almost always a prerequisite for success.
Recruiting is a unique profession, for a lot of reasons. You can’t go to college and earn a degree in recruiting. There is virtually no cap on how much recruiters earn. It’s basically a sales position with unlimited commission potential. There’s not much in the way of regulation or oversight.
There are many questions that a recruiter (and a recruiting firm owner) should ask themselves. Here is one such question: “Should I work on contingency or retainer?” A fair question that deserves a fair answer. However before we answer it, we have some groundwork to lay. That groundwork involves the
You’ve used your ATS recruitment software to match qualified candidates with your client’s job orders, but that’s just the beginning. For most practitioners in our industry, the purpose of candidate prep with a client is to improve their interviewing skills, provide information on the company and position, and to increase the likelihood
No matter what profession a person chooses, they want to be successful. Recruiters are NO different. No matter how you measure success as a recruiter (monetarily or otherwise), it requires a certain number of recruitment skills, competencies, and qualifications. And because we like to do things a little differently around
If you’re an independent agency recruiter, you have a pretty good idea of what kind of fees you like. That would be 30% fees. Sure, you’d take 25%, but there’s nothing better than a nice, big, fat, juicy 30% fee. But what about flat fees? I can almost hear the
The majority of recruiters submit resumes to clients before securing interviews for their candidates. In many instances, the recruiters actually volunteer to send resumes. It generally sounds like this: “As soon as I have located a qualified candidate, I will send you their resume.” Or “I’ll get right on this
Cold calling effectively as a recruiter is about more than just reciting a recruitment script. That’s especially the case when dealing with top candidates. If you call both an A-level candidate and a C-level candidate with your employment opportunity, which one do you think will show a higher level of
