When it comes to cold calling in recruitment, you would be hard pressed to find search consultants who like making cold calls. Sure, there might be an old school, dyed-in-the-wool headhunter out there who loves recruiter cold calling. But those are few and far between. For the vast majority, recruiter
Below are seven specific steps that you can take for enjoying more recruiting success throughout all of 2025: #1—Identify Your Worthy Ideal When you consider the fact that your success is dependent upon the “Progressive Realization of a Worthy Ideal,” it’s critical that you identify your worthy ideal. You cannot realize
To achieve big billings on your desk, all you have to do is do what big billers do. Think the way they think. Treat your clients and candidates in the way that they treat their clients and candidates. Close the deals the way they close the deals. Plan the way
There is something very empowering about the recruiting profession! You can “give yourself a raise” as often as you please, increasing your recruiting income on a regular basis! Income in our profession is impacted by your personal performance. Your owner or manager doesn’t write your paycheck . . . you
In my previous blog post for the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Blog, I presented a “Recruiter Script for Positioning Yourself as a Talent Scout.” In this blog post, I’m going to further discuss how to make recruitment business development calls. Headhunting scripts for (almost) every occasion Scripts can feel overly constrictive
Among discussion about which recruiting software to use, how to streamline your recruiting process, and how to overcome objections, you’ve probably heard quite a bit about counteroffers. In this candidate’s market, counteroffers are quite a problem for recruiters. In fact, candidates are accepting counteroffers even after they’ve started working at
Once upon a time, I led a tele-seminar titled, “How to Produce Big Results in a 4 day Work week.” As part of the format, I conducted an interview with a friend of mine who had billed $1 million as a solo recruiter. During the session, he allowed me to grill
When I first joined the recruiting industry in 1995, there was a fellow named Patrick in the cubicle next to me who kept saying over and over again, “Man, I can’t believe a company will pay me such a big fee to place someone. I just can’t believe it. I just
Recruiting top talent is difficult. In fact, the talent war is over – talent won! You need to form lifetime relationships with all the candidates you represent. Candidates want to know three things: Do you care about me? Can I trust you? Will you do what you promise? Initially you
During a speaking engagement a few years ago, I asked about 350 account executives, “Can we all agree that four hours per day of phone time is critical to our success?” Three hundred and fifty hands shot into the air. I followed with “How many of you actually hit four
