As an agency owner, hiring recruiters is tough enough. But what if you’re thinking about hiring a virtual recruiter? Well, that increases the degree of difficulty even more. As if you didn’t have enough to worry about. However, if you can find the right person, then hiring a virtual recruiter
Okay, so we have recruitment marketing and recruitment advertisement (or recruitment advertising). Although they sound like they might be the same thing, there is a difference between the two. What exactly is that difference? Recruitment marketing involves gaining more exposure for the services of a search consultant, recruiter, or headhunter.
Search consultants love to recruit. They don’t love to market. That’s generally the rule. However, marketing, as they say, is necessary. Without recruitment marketing, you can’t gain the exposure you need with clients, prospective clients, and candidates to enjoy more success. In other words, if they don’t know who you
Sometimes as a search consultant, you’re spending so much time being a recruiter that you can hardly find time to market your services like you should. However, marketing is essential for any recruiter who wants to maximize their recruiting desk, and therefore, their billings. If you don’t market yourself and
Everything in the employment marketplace revolves around value. It’s why a company or organization would hire somebody as a new employee. It’s also why that same company or organization would hire a search consultant. This why it’s important for you to have a strong recruitment value proposition. What is a
Every recruiter knows the pain of a candidate declining a job offer. And during this current candidates’ market, it’s been happening with more frequency. The longer this candidates’ market continues and the more scarce top talent becomes, the more that candidates will decline employment offers. Why candidates decline the offer
In our previous blog post, we presented seven strategies for recruiting and hiring in a candidate-driven market. Obviously, one of the biggest recruitment challenges for search consultants and third-party agency recruiters in this current market is dealing with top candidates. Why is that a challenge? As we discussed before, this
The fact that we’re currently in a candidate-driven market is not surprising. After all, the Great Recession was over 10 years ago. The economy has been in recovery mode for 11 years, maybe more. As a result, qualified candidates are scarce. Top talent is difficult to find. In fact, the
Recruiting’s not easy, is it? Sigh. Of course not. If it was, then everybody would be doing it. But alas, this is not the case. The profession is replete with recruiting challenges. What makes recruiting a challenge? In fact, there are challenges faced by recruiters all throughout the recruitment and
As a recruiter, you might receive a request for proposal from a potential client. You need to know how to respond to these kinds of requests to make your firm stand out. Learn how to write an RFP response and land more job orders.
