Everybody is looking for an edge. It doesn’t matter if you’re a recruiter, a football player, or a politician. In today’s ultra-competitive workplace and society, any edge—no matter how seemingly small—can make a big difference in the outcome and positively affect the results. In the recruiting profession, these results could
The other day, I received a call from a large state association considering me to speak at their day-long annual “Motivation Day” event. To be considered for this event is a huge honor. I was so pleased and excited that I got the call. However, I have a confession to
Recruitment performance can be measured in multiple ways. You can measure it in terms of placements made. You can measure it in terms of billings. Heck, you can even measure it in terms of all the numbers and ratios that lead to placements made and amount of billings. The bottom
If you’re a recruiter and you can successfully recruit passive talent, then you are going to be a successful recruiter, my friend. The #1 reason for this is simple: your clients aren’t able to do it. They certainly can’t do it on a consistent basis, at the very least. Think
The bottom line in the recruiting and staffing industry, as it is in just about every other aspect of the employment marketplace, is value. However, when that word is over-used, it starts to have less meaning. That’s the case with just about every word in the English language. If you
At Top Echelon, we are definitely advocates of continuous training and education for recruiters and search consultants. After all, we offer a Recruiter Training Blog, which you are not currently reading. In addition, we offer FREE monthly training webinars by some of the biggest names in the recruiting industry and
There’s more than one way to look at recruitment growth. As we’ve done before, for the purposes of this blog post, we’re going to focus on independent, third-party recruiters and recruiting agencies. So when we talk about recruitment growth, our discussion will include what it means for them. One way
To get people to do what we want them to do, we need to give a clear understanding about how we work and ensure that the client and candidate are willing to comply. (This is crucial in our quest to secure a recruitment commitment.) Then we ask questions throughout the
If you’re a third-party recruiting agency, then having recruitment standards for your employees, including your search consultants, is important. After all, without standards, how can you measure performance well? It’s definitely more difficult. But first and foremost, what are recruitment standards? What are recruitment standards? For our purposes and the
When we talk about recruiter phone call reluctance, we’re not talking about just ANY recruiter phone call. We’re talking about cold calls, specifically cold calls that recruiters make to prospective clients. Sure, recruiters also make cold calls to candidates. But in that case, the recruiter almost already has a job
