Is the economy recovering?  Is it not?  Are we in a recession?  Are we not? Does it matter?  The bottom line is that companies aren’t exactly setting the world on fire when it comes to hiring. Now, there are many factors at work here, but there’s one factor in particular

There is perhaps nothing more valuable to a recruiter than their time.  What they do with that time directly affects how many placements they make and how much they bill.  Spend time doing the wrong things, and… well, we know how that ends. With that in mind, we conducted a

Now, more than ever, we find ourselves in a global economy.  What happens all the way across the globe can have a definite impact on what happens in this country. But what about recruiters?  How “international” are their recruiting desks?  We decided to find out with our weekly poll question. Of

With 2011 looming on the horizon, we thought it would be a good idea to ask Preferred Members of Top Echelon’s recruiting network recruiters what their clients’ attitudes are toward hiring.  After all, a new year is almost upon us… a fresh start, a clean slate, so to speak.  So we conducted

So much has been written—and continues to be written—about how this current economic recovery is slow, tepid, generally unsatisfying. Okay, there’s ample evidence to support that.  However, there’s one thing that never changes, no matter the state of the economy or the lack of speed with which the recovery is