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How to Collect Your Fee: ‘We Referred the Candidate’
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

Just How Hot is Manufacturing Right Now?
There’s no disputing this fact: manufacturing is hot at the moment. But that brings up some important questions: Exactly how hot is it? And what exactly does it mean for recruiters? According to a recent article in USA Today, the manufacturing sector just enjoyed its best month of growth in

How to Collect Your Fee: Battling the ‘Another Division’ Claim
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

How to Collect Your Fee: Battling the ‘Employee Referral’ Claim
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

Have Recruiters Discounted Fees During the Past 12 Months?
The question posed in the title to this blog post is a fair one. After all, job orders have been scarce during the past few years, and companies have been even more reluctant than they were previously to pay fees to recruiters. So it would make sense that in some

Introducing the Hottest Candidate… in the Year 2022
As a recruiter, it’s always good to know which candidates companies are going to be fighting over in the future. After all, a position that’s tied to urgency is a position that a company will pay you a fee in order to fill—over and over and over again. Fortune magazine