Search consultants love to recruit. They don’t love to market. That’s generally the rule. However, marketing, as they say, is necessary. Without recruitment marketing, you can’t gain the exposure you need with clients, prospective clients, and candidates to enjoy more success. In other words, if they don’t know who you
Sometimes as a search consultant, you’re spending so much time being a recruiter that you can hardly find time to market your services like you should. However, marketing is essential for any recruiter who wants to maximize their recruiting desk, and therefore, their billings. If you don’t market yourself and
Everything in the employment marketplace revolves around value. It’s why a company or organization would hire somebody as a new employee. It’s also why that same company or organization would hire a search consultant. This why it’s important for you to have a strong recruitment value proposition. What is a
Every recruiter knows the pain of a candidate declining a job offer. And during this current candidates’ market, it’s been happening with more frequency. The longer this candidates’ market continues and the more scarce top talent becomes, the more that candidates will decline employment offers. Why candidates decline the offer
In our previous blog post, we presented seven strategies for recruiting and hiring in a candidate-driven market. Obviously, one of the biggest recruitment challenges for search consultants and third-party agency recruiters in this current market is dealing with top candidates. Why is that a challenge? As we discussed before, this
Recruiting’s not easy, is it? Sigh. Of course not. If it was, then everybody would be doing it. But alas, this is not the case. The profession is replete with recruiting challenges. What makes recruiting a challenge? In fact, there are challenges faced by recruiters all throughout the recruitment and
As a recruiter, you might receive a request for proposal from a potential client. You need to know how to respond to these kinds of requests to make your firm stand out. Learn how to write an RFP response and land more job orders.
Recruiters and search consultants don’t like to talk about the next recession. Heck, they barely like talking about the last recession. However, recessions are inevitable. It’s not a matter of if, it’s simply a matter of when. There are many facets to the issue of recruitment and recession. After all,
Finding qualified candidates can be difficult, especially if you are recruiting for a hard-to-place industry like healthcare or engineering. And even when you find them, there’s no guarantee they will accept the job offer. To sweeten the job offer and encourage a candidate to accept, you might convince your client
Recruiting is not an easy profession. Just ask any recruiter. They’ll tell you. It’s wrought with challenges and plenty of problems. Now, of course, those problems can and do change. The way in which they change depends largely upon the state of the economy and the employment marketplace. For instance,
