Blog for Recruiters
These articles share recruiting expertise and offer best practices – helping you streamline your recruiting processes.
Sourcing From Clients (and 8 More Unfair Recruitment Practices)
Recruiting is a unique profession, for a lot of reasons. You can’t go to college and earn a degree in recruiting. There is virtually no cap on how much recruiters earn. It’s basically a sales position with unlimited commission potential. There’s not much in the way of...
Recruitment Made Easy: Baking Faster Pies with Low-Hanging Fruit
You’ve probably heard that it is not a good idea to pick low-hanging fruit. My question is: Why the hell not? I enjoy picking low hanging fruit. It’s within easy reach and requires minimal effort. I don’t enjoy dealing with rickety ladders and having to stretch just...
Contingency Search and Retained Search Agreements for Recruiters
There are many questions that a recruiter (and a recruiting firm owner) should ask themselves. Here is one such question: “Should I work on contingency or retainer?” A fair question that deserves a fair answer. However before we answer it, we have some groundwork to...
Candidate Preparation for the Interview is About MORE Than the Interview
You've used your ATS recruitment software to match qualified candidates with your client's job orders, but that's just the beginning. For most practitioners in our industry, the purpose of candidate prep with a client is to improve their interviewing skills, provide...