Online recruiting has been around as long as the Internet has been around. (For those of you interested in counting, you might be surprised by how long that’s actually been.) If you’ve been in the game since the advent of the World Wide Web, you might remember how the Internet
If you’re like most firms in our industry, your website looks pretty but does little to bring in actionable leads. Most sites fall into the “online brochure” category. An online brochure is a fairly static set of web pages that don’t engage the visitor in an active manner. In other
Like a bear taking a long Winter’s nap, it’s common that a deal goes into its own version of hibernation (“deal hibernation,” if you will). At first, the buyer seems ready to buy, creating hope for the recruiter. Then, a shift in priorities puts the sale on hold for weeks,
So why should a staffing or recruiting firm update its website on a consistent basis? That’s assuming, of course, that the recruiting or staffing firm in question does have a website. Believe it or not, some firms do not. In this age of technology and the Internet, that’s a risky proposition for
People who visit websites have a very short attention span. They expect to find what they’re looking for within seconds, and they want a good experience in the process. A recruiting website design has to accomplish three basic functions within the visitor’s first five seconds. Otherwise, there’s a risk of losing
In my previous blog post for the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Blog, I discussed hiring blindness and how it contributes to poor candidate hires. In this post, I’ll be addressing the four main hiring styles, which are as follows: #1—The Tackler Tacklers are fast and decisive. They want to be in
At Top Echelon, we help recruiters make more placements. That’s our branding statement, our mission statement, and our number-one goal as a company. Enjoying success as a recruiter involves many different things, and the Internet is certainly one of them. The Internet (and especially social media and social networking) have
The recruiting landscape has shifted, and contract staffing is here to stay. Recruiters, you’re already experienced with getting job orders and finding candidates. The only unknown part of contract staffing is how you handle the actual mechanics of employing contract workers. So what should you do? You have an important decision
Why do recruiters need a website? Let’s start with the obvious: just about the entire world is on the Internet. You can do anything and everything on the Internet. You can get your news and information, you can order goods and services, you can watch your favorite television shows and
We’ve written many times about how easy it is to add contract staffing to your recruiting solutions. When you outsource the complicated parts to a provider of recruitment back-office solutions, there just aren’t that many pieces left for you to deal with. Which is great, because it leaves your time free for calling, emailing,
