Welcome to our ongoing series of blog posts in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Center: “Jeff Allen’s Collection Tip of the Week.” Each week, we’ll highlight one collection tip from Allen, JD/CPC, the world’s leading placement lawyer. Since 1975, Allen has collected more placement fees, litigated more trade secret cases, and assisted
Welcome to our ongoing series of blog posts in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Center: “Jeff Allen’s Collection Tip of the Week.” Each week, we’ll highlight one collection tip from Allen, JD/CPC, the world’s leading placement lawyer. Since 1975, Allen has collected more placement fees, litigated more trade secret cases, and assisted
The question posed in the title to this blog post is a fair one. After all, job orders have been scarce during the past few years, and companies have been even more reluctant than they were previously to pay fees to recruiters. So it would make sense that in some
As a recruiter, it’s always good to know which candidates companies are going to be fighting over in the future. After all, a position that’s tied to urgency is a position that a company will pay you a fee in order to fill—over and over and over again. Fortune magazine
For what seems like the longest time, video interviewing has been touted as the “next big thing” in the world of hiring, for both companies and recruiters. Despite its being a popular online recruitment tool, video interviewing hasn’t really taken the world by storm, for whatever reason. That doesn’t mean
Are new graduates making the grade in today’s fast-paced business environment? According to a recent study by the Global Strategy Group (on behalf of architectural firm Woods Bagot), the answer to that question is a firm “No!” The study included the opinions of 500 senior managers and C-level executives, the
In my previous blog post, I discussed the results of a recruiter poll that we recently conducted, one that asked recruiters how 2011 compared to 2010 in terms of their recruiting business. Overall, the results of that poll were quite positive, with over 63% of respondents indicating that 2011 was
It’s 2012—a New Year for recruiters! But how did the old year (2011) treat recruiters? Well, we found out. How? A recruiter poll, of course! Specifically, we conducted a poll of recruiters from all across the country, and in that poll, we posed the following question: How did 2011 compare
With 2011 quickly coming to an end, this is a good time to look back over the year and see which industries added the most jobs. To be sure, not a lot of jobs were added to the workforce this year, as companies were still reluctant to hire, regardless of
Welcome back to our ongoing series of blog posts about what recruiters should do to prepare for 2012. Once again, we’re presenting advice from recruiting industry trainer Jon Bartos of Jonathan Scott International. In our previous blog post, Bartos stressed that recruiters should analyze what worked this year on their
