Online recruiting has been around as long as the Internet has been around. (For those of you interested in counting, you might be surprised by how long that’s actually been.) If you’ve been in the game since the advent of the World Wide Web, you might remember how the Internet
The recruiting profession is blessed with a number of tools for finding and attracting quality candidates. The Internet, our telephones, and job fairs are just a few of the avenues we have to connect with people in today’s marketplace. What all of these have in common is that they put
If you’re like most firms in our industry, your website looks pretty but does little to bring in actionable leads. Most sites fall into the “online brochure” category. An online brochure is a fairly static set of web pages that don’t engage the visitor in an active manner. In other
People who visit websites have a very short attention span. They expect to find what they’re looking for within seconds, and they want a good experience in the process. A recruiting website design has to accomplish three basic functions within the visitor’s first five seconds. Otherwise, there’s a risk of losing
In my previous blog post for the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Blog, I discussed hiring blindness and how it contributes to poor candidate hires. In this post, I’ll be addressing the four main hiring styles, which are as follows: #1—The Tackler Tacklers are fast and decisive. They want to be in
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The recruiting landscape has shifted, and contract staffing is here to stay. Recruiters, you’re already experienced with getting job orders and finding candidates. The only unknown part of contract staffing is how you handle the actual mechanics of employing contract workers. So what should you do? You have an important decision
Why do recruiters need a website? Let’s start with the obvious: just about the entire world is on the Internet. You can do anything and everything on the Internet. You can get your news and information, you can order goods and services, you can watch your favorite television shows and
In a previous blog post, I shared three key principles to establishing a strong marketing foundation. Of course, it all starts with obtaining high-quality searches. After that, though, you need to know how to have an appropriate conversation with potential new clients, and the best way to do this is
We’ve written many times about how easy it is to add contract staffing to your recruiting solutions. When you outsource the complicated parts to a provider of recruitment back-office solutions, there just aren’t that many pieces left for you to deal with. Which is great, because it leaves your time free for calling, emailing,
