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‘We Would Have Found the Candidate on Our Own’
Welcome to our ongoing series of blog posts in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Center: “Jeff Allen’s Collection Tip of the Week.” Each week, we’ll highlight one collection tip from Allen, JD/CPC, the world’s leading placement lawyer. Since 1975, Allen has collected more placement fees, litigated more trade secret cases, and assisted

Nearly Half of Recruiters on Track to Reach Their 2012 Goals
Thanksgiving is over . . . December is upon us . . . followed by the New Year. How the heck did that happen so quickly? Regardless of how, when is inevitable, and since we’ll assume that the world isn’t going to “Go All Mayan” on us on December 21,

Company: You Dealt with an ‘Unauthorized Hiring Authority’
Welcome to our ongoing series of blog posts in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Center: “Jeff Allen’s Collection Tip of the Week.” Each week, we’ll highlight one collection tip from Allen, JD/CPC, the world’s leading placement lawyer. Since 1975, Allen has collected more placement fees, litigated more trade secret cases, and assisted

Over Half of Recruiters Working Until the End of the Year
There are many advantages to being a successful executive recruiter. One of those advantages has traditionally been the luxury of winding down the activity level on your desk toward the end of the calendar year. For some recruiters, if they’ve enjoyed a particularly good year, they’ve shut down their desk

What to Do When Companies Claim ‘We Don’t Pay Fees’
Welcome to our ongoing series of blog posts in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Center: “Jeff Allen’s Collection Tip of the Week.” Each week, we’ll highlight one collection tip from Allen, JD/CPC, the world’s leading placement lawyer. Since 1975, Allen has litigated more trade secret cases and assisted more placement practitioners than

5 Interview Mistakes Your Candidates Should NOT Make
Unlike job seekers who land a face-to-face interview all by their lonesome, when a recruiter presents a candidate for consideration to a company and the company wants to interview them, that candidate had better know what they’re doing. After all, the candidate in question is reflecting upon the recruiter who