If you’re an independent agency recruiter, you have a pretty good idea of what kind of fees you like. That would be 30% fees. Sure, you’d take 25%, but there’s nothing better than a nice, big, fat, juicy 30% fee. But what about flat fees? I can almost hear the
Recruitment performance can be measured in multiple ways. You can measure it in terms of placements made. You can measure it in terms of billings. Heck, you can even measure it in terms of all the numbers and ratios that lead to placements made and amount of billings. The bottom
If you’re a third-party recruiting agency, then having recruitment standards for your employees, including your search consultants, is important. After all, without standards, how can you measure performance well? It’s definitely more difficult. But first and foremost, what are recruitment standards? What are recruitment standards? For our purposes and the
Everybody wants to know what the future holds. Both the near future and the far future. The problem is that nobody knows what the future holds, not really. Sure, people often accurately predict certain elements of the future, but their forecasting is just as much luck as it is skill
Let’s get one thing straight: there’s going to be a recession. It’s going to happen, and there isn’t anything that anybody can do about it. That being said, the only question is when it’s going to happen. No matter when a recession strikes, though, it should be a short-term threat
Most recruiters thrive on competition. We at Top Echelon can attest to that in relation to our recruiting network. The members of our network love to compete against one another in terms of production. That’s why we keep a running 12-month tally of that production in the Members’ Area of
Every firm owner and agency owner wants to enjoy more recruitment freedom. Sure, you love being a recruiter. You even love being an agency owner. But every once in a while, you want freedom from being both. In other words, you want to work less and generate the same amount
Being a recruiter is not an easy job. It doesn’t matter if you’re an internal recruiter or corporate recruiter or a third-party search consultant. (Although for the purposes of this blog post, we’re going to focus on third-party agency recruiters. They do constitute the majority of our customers, after all.)
As an agency owner, hiring recruiters is tough enough. But what if you’re thinking about hiring a virtual recruiter? Well, that increases the degree of difficulty even more. As if you didn’t have enough to worry about. However, if you can find the right person, then hiring a virtual recruiter
There’s nothing like the beginning of a relationship with a new client. (It’s almost as much fun as when you first started dating as a teenager!) There might not be butterflies, but there are job orders. And those are better. But wait . . . what about the initial recruitment
