As a professional recruiter or search consultant, you tell clients all the time that hiring the wrong person can set you back in terms of time, energy, and money. And hanging onto the wrong employee for too long? The same things can happen! And if you’re an agency owner or
Recruiting today can be extremely difficult. For a multitude of reasons, with world events, technology and media overload and a great resignation – hiring processes have had to adapt to be successful. What does success look like? What does the actual hiring process look like? We’ll dive into the main
The recruitment and selection process has many steps. And the recruiting step is just one of them. In fact, there are things that a recruiter or talent acquisition professional must do before the recruiting step. And that would be referred to as pre-recruitment. (Makes perfect sense, does it not?) Now,
Recruiting is a very unique profession. Nobody goes to college looking to become a professional recruiter. Instead, they somehow “fall into” the job. They didn’t plan on it, but it happened and they’re very happy that they did. Thousands of such recruiters use Top Echelon’s applicant tracking system. Some of
Recruitment leadership as a professional recruiter or executive search consultant is all about two things: trust and confidence. We’re talking about trust and confidence with both your candidates and your clients. The problem is that trust and confidence are difficult to build and quite easy to destroy. Ah, but if
Applicant Tracking System & the Screening Process When it comes to the hiring and recruiting process, it can be looked at as sort of a funnel. Any productive recruiter will have a pipeline filled with candidates. This pipeline will start at the top with prospective candidates and lead all the
Recruitment activity is at the heart of making more placements as a professional recruiter or executive search consultant. Actually, allow me to clarify that statement. The right recruitment activity is at the heart of more placements. And it doesn’t matter if you’re “swimming” in job orders or search assignments right
The topic of recruitment reference checks is a deep and wide one for multiple reasons. First, there are many different people who check references. It could be a hiring manager. It could be a Human Resources professional. It could be a corporate recruiter. Or it could be a professional recruiter
In the world of employment, there is no greater need than that of effective candidate sourcing. While that might be a rather bold statement, an organization’s personnel represents their greatest resource. Just like the team with the best players wins, the company with the best employees wins, too. And you
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed just about everything, and that includes the employment marketplace. Due to lockdowns and restrictions, the recruiting and hiring process has gone online—literally—as organizations struggle to hire the talent they need. This has given rise to the prevalence of virtual recruiting. However, just like traditional recruiting,
