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recruiting cold call
Recruiter Training

The 1 Thing Recruiters MUST Focus on During a Cold Call

We are in the recruiting profession.  The recruiting profession is a sales profession! Cold calling is part of any good sales professional’s responsibilities.  Information available on the Internet and social networks has actually converted most cold calls into informed warm calls. You may have an established client base, but if

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Recruiter Training

14 Signs That It Might be “Parachute Time” on Your Search

In recruiting, time should be a closely guarded ally, one that is treated respectfully and with care.  Because wasting time is more than a productivity issue—it strikes at the very core of what we do.  It can put a career in free fall. We have all found ourselves engaged in

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kitten sitting on a fence
Recruiter Training

5 Steps for Moving the ‘Fence-Sitting Candidate’

It felt like someone kicked me in the stomach. I just left the third message for the candidate without a getting a single call back.  He had a great background and the first time I talked with him two weeks ago, he said there were some pretty important issues motivating

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recruiter’s hiring process
Recruiter Training

A Hiring Process MUST Accomplish These 2 Objectives

“As a general rule, you should assume that time is always against you when you’re trying to make a deal—any kind of deal.” —Robert J. Ringer, author These words are as true today as they were when Mr. Ringer wrote them in his best-selling 1973 book, Winning Through Intimidation. I

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time-wasters for recruiters
Recruiter Training

5 Time-Wasters for Recruiters (and 5 Solutions!)

As a firm owner, your recruiters should produce more, but will they?  Review the following top five time-wasters for recruiters, as well as the solutions. #1—Personal issues brought to work Solution: Your team should leave their baggage outside the door of your office.  They should not bring personal issues into

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Call Back
Recruiter Training

3 Ways to Call Back to Qualify the Job Order

As we discussed in my previous blog post, you need six critical pieces of information for your job order. Now that you have those six pieces of information, that’s what we’ll call our “skeleton JO.”  Now set the times for your call back, say good-bye to the hiring manager, and

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