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recruiter exit plan

The Strategies and Benefits of a Recruiter Exit Plan

Whether you plan to sell, close, or pass your recruiting business to your children, it’s never too early to think about an exit strategy. If you have a “recruiter exit plan,” then it’s time to review it and make sure you agree with the end results. If you do NOT  have an

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Top Echelon to Award Top Producers at National Convention

Today—March 8, 2016—is the 28th anniversary of Top Echelon! With that in mind, this is a great day to announce that Top Echelon will award its top producers from 2015 at the upcoming National Convention. The 2016 Top Echelon National Convention is a two-day event is scheduled for Tuesday, April

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The Percentage of Recruiters Making Client Visits is . . .

Every recruiter everywhere is doing everything they can to keep their current clients and add new ones. Should that include making client visits? If so, how many visits should recruiters make? To be sure, there are many factors involved. Below are a few: The industry and niche in which the recruiter

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Crazy Recruiting Story: Don’t Stand Too Close to Me

Top Echelon’s crazy recruiting stories are rolling on! We’ve already compiled quite a collection of tales, including: A candidate taken hostage by Mexican drug cartel wannabes A candidate who brought a boa constrictor to their interview A candidate who got into a fistfight with the hiring manager during their interview (for a good

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Recruiters: More Job Orders for Newly Created Positions

Recruiters, like everybody else, enjoy good news. For recruiters, good news usually takes the form of more job orders. According to a recent Top Echelon poll, there’s some good news to be had, and it pertains to the types of job orders that companies are currently issuing to recruiters. We asked

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Crazy Recruiting Story: Interview Fists of Fury!

Top Echelon is back with another crazy recruiting story! So far, we’ve had a boa constrictor interview and a candidate who was arrested by two (count them, TWO) police officers. This week, our story deals with another candidate who did not get past the interview stage . . . and it was not because

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prioritize your searches as a recruiter

How to Prioritize Your Searches as a Recruiter

One of the most vital skills that you can learn as a recruiter is how to zero in on those searches that give you the best chance of making a placement . . . and to only focus on them. Is this a skill that takes time to master? No,

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Back Office Support Solutions for Busy Recruiters

It seems like there are never enough hours in the day for recruiters, doesn’t it? And if you run your own back office, that’s even more true. Between employer taxes and liability, payroll and invoicing issues, worker’s comp incidents and HR complaints, the work can be more than enough to overwhelm

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balanced recruiting desk

Are YOU Running a Balanced Recruiting Desk?

Running a balanced recruiting desk, no matter if it’s good times or bad, is the goal of many recruiters. What do I mean by that? I mean that the job orders that these recruiters have are spread across a number of different client companies. That way, if one company decides

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recruiters using a tablet device

The Percentage of Recruiters Using a Tablet Device is . . .

First, it was cell phones. Then it was smartphones. And now . . . it’s tablet devices. Technology appears to be fueling a ever-increasing expansion of communication tools, and those tools have applications for the recruiting industry. But how many of our peers are using those sourcing tools for recruiters, at least

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