One of the best ways to make more placements and bill more every year as an agency recruiter or search consultant is by becoming better at what you do. Continuous training and education are part of that, and taking advantage of recruiting webinars is most definitely a part of continuous
Recruiters who possess a high degree of self-confidence and charisma tend to dominate their market and out perform their competitors. They negotiate higher fees, gain access to elite clients, and land highly sought after retainers. Much of their marketing is done for them; new clients seek them out because their
Have you heard of the “Rocking Chair Test”? It’s very simple: picture yourself at 90 years of age sitting on a rocking chair and looking back over the landscape of your life. What would you be proud of? What would you regret? What would you wish you would have done
Sure, you might have big goals for yourself this year. You might have even set a certain amount that you want to bill in 2020. That’s all fine and good. However, setting big goals without a plan for achieving them won’t get you very far. And the best way to
Setting a proper frame of reference with a recruit should be a primary objective during your first in-depth discussion. This frame of reference may determine whether or not the recruit views you as an asset or a liability. For the purposes of this blog post, we will define a recruit
During one of my favorite recruitment years, I had the honor of coaching a recruiter (I’ll call him David) who wanted to bill $1 million in one year. He called Paul Hawkinson (then the managing editor of The Fordyce Letter), and Paul recommended that he speak with me. 12 principles of
Many, many people don’t like math. Some of those people are recruiters by trade. But what about metrics? Recruiting metrics involve math, but are they assigned the same disdain? Well, math for math’s sake does little to generate excitement. However, math for the sake of making more money could very
Recruiting is a unique profession, for a lot of reasons. You can’t go to college and earn a degree in recruiting. There is virtually no cap on how much recruiters earn. It’s basically a sales position with unlimited commission potential. There’s not much in the way of regulation or oversight.
There are many questions that a recruiter (and a recruiting firm owner) should ask themselves. Here is one such question: “Should I work on contingency or retainer?” A fair question that deserves a fair answer. However before we answer it, we have some groundwork to lay. That groundwork involves the
No matter what profession a person chooses, they want to be successful. Recruiters are NO different. No matter how you measure success as a recruiter (monetarily or otherwise), it requires a certain number of recruitment skills, competencies, and qualifications. And because we like to do things a little differently around
