Today’s “Top Echelon Recruiting Tip” comes from industry trainer Doug Beabout, CPC of The Douglas Howard Group. According to Beabout, during the past 10 years companies have turned cell phones into an essential business tool for their employees, just as essential as the briefcase. “What companies have been doing is buying
With every recession, recruiters learn lessons—many of them hard lessons—and this latest recession was no exception. Top Echelon Network interviewed a number of its recruiters and asked them what they’ve learned as a result of the recession. 1. Staying positive is more important than you realize. Being positive is more than just
In the first blog post in this series, I discussed the CAN-SPAM act and how it could potentially affect your email marketing efforts. In this post, I’d like to tackle the subject of bounced emails. After all, you didn’t think every single email that you send is going to be
As hot as social media is these days, especially for recruiters who are looking to make placements through social media, email marketing is equally popular. The reason is that email is just as effective as social media, if not more effective. (Actually, the best approach for recruiters looking to maximize
If you’ve been reading my posts at all, you know that blogging is a great way to keep the search engines coming back to your site regularly because search engines love fresh content. But, you should also know that blogging lends personal credibility too! Providing you are posting good solid
When you get right down to it, at the root of all this Search Engine Optimization stuff are your keywords. That is, what words and or phrases do you want to be found under? This may seem easy on the surface, but you should analyze what’s going on in and
When the hiring manager at one of your clients informs you that unemployed candidates will no longer be considered for their job openings, the best question you can ask them is also the simplest: “Why?” It’s not the only question, by any stretch of the imagination, but just like any
As I stated in my previous blog post, it’s becoming more and more difficult to place the unemployed. Some companies are omitting them from the job search process, sight unseen, to the point where they’re telling job seekers not to apply in their job posting and description. But as we all know,
