As you may have noticed during the past few years, the competition for top-tier candidates has reached unprecedented levels. While active job seekers flood job boards and career fairs, a hidden pool of exceptional talent lies dormant, waiting to be tapped into. These are the passive candidates – the professionals
In today’s digital age, data protection is a critical issue for organizations in all industries. As recruiters, we often collect and store sensitive personal information about candidates during the recruitment process, including their name, address, date of birth, education, and work history. It is essential to take steps to protect
As a professional recruiter or search consultant, it’s important to set the proper expectations. This means setting the proper expectations with clients to let them know what you expect from them. This means setting the proper expectations with job seekers and candidates to let them know what you expect from
We’ve addressed the issue of qualifying job orders quite a bit in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Blog. We’ve done this namely because being able to identify which orders are the ones worth working on is key to making more placements (and more money). Just because a recruiter has a
Candidates are the fuel that keeps recruiting happening. Simply put, if you don’t have candidates in your pipeline, you won’t get anywhere far! In recruiting, typically this is remedied by a thing called sourcing. Instead of receiving job applications or passively adding candidates from network websites or job boards, this
You’ve probably been through this. You call a job candidate and get no answer. So you leave a voicemail message. And then you call again and they don’t answer again. And you leave another message. So you call back again with the same result. What the heck is going on?
The recruitment and selection process has many steps. And the recruiting step is just one of them. In fact, there are things that a recruiter or talent acquisition professional must do before the recruiting step. And that would be referred to as pre-recruitment. (Makes perfect sense, does it not?) Now,
Recruitment activity is at the heart of making more placements as a professional recruiter or executive search consultant. Actually, allow me to clarify that statement. The right recruitment activity is at the heart of more placements. And it doesn’t matter if you’re “swimming” in job orders or search assignments right
The full cycle recruiting process is almost over. Your client extended a job offer and the candidate accepted. But then, your client decides they want to rescind offer. Can an employer take back a job offer? Can an employer revoke a job offer? According to PBS, it is common for
There’s nothing as grand as when one of your candidates accepts an offer. And there’s nothing as miserable as when that same candidate turns around and declines the same offer. Wait, what? How does that happen? Why does that happen? How can you stop that from happening? Why does a
