If you’re a recruiter—and chances are good that you are—then you’re going to make cold calls. That’s what you do: you’re a cold caller. Well, it’s not ALL you do, but it does constitute an important part of a recruiter’s daily activities. That’s a simple fact. Here’s another simple fact:
Many top producers in the recruiter industry owe much of their success to the fact they focus their time, energy and resources on working with a client (and hiring manager) that is truly sincere about receiving the staffing solutions only they can provide. These top producers know the client’s sincerity
Okay, you’ve made the decision to be a recruiter. Congratulations! You are now part of the most unique, most rewarding, and most frustrating profession to ever grace our free enterprise system. The next item on your professional agenda: how to become a great recruiter. There’s a certain dilemma baked into
Knowing how to close a candidate in recruitment is difficult enough, but when it’s a candidates’ market? That can be a special kind of headache. The reasons for this difficulty in closing candidates are numerous. They include the following: Passive, A-level candidates are typically interviewing with more than one company. As
There’s nothing like the warm, fuzzy feeling that goes along with an exclusive search assignment. A freshly signed search contract with a recruitment exclusivity clause is like the glow of perfect spring weather, the roar of a fireplace during a chilly autumn morning, or a cup of steaming hot cocoa.
We are in a candidate-driven market. That means there are a LOT of agency recruiters and search consultants working in the employment marketplace and within the profession. That’s a lot of recruiters vying for job orders, not to mention the attention of top candidates. For anybody who has been in
There’s no way around it. There is sometimes conflict between independent, third-party recruiters and the Human Resources department of a company or organization. Or at the very least, there is miscommunication and confusion. But what are the roles of HR and recruitment in the hiring process? And how can recruiters
