Much has been made in the news media regarding companies’ reluctance to consider unemployed job seekers for their open positions. However, there have also been stories circulating about the fact that companies are also using credit checks more when determining which candidates to consider and which to not. So, that
With 2011 looming on the horizon, we thought it would be a good idea to ask Preferred Members of Top Echelon’s recruiting network recruiters what their clients’ attitudes are toward hiring. After all, a new year is almost upon us… a fresh start, a clean slate, so to speak. So we conducted
So much has been written—and continues to be written—about how this current economic recovery is slow, tepid, generally unsatisfying. Okay, there’s ample evidence to support that. However, there’s one thing that never changes, no matter the state of the economy or the lack of speed with which the recovery is
Social media platform LinkedIn went public with its stock recently, so now the pressure is on to make a profit… a hefty profit. One of the ways in which it’s attempting to do so may be tied to plans to launch a new plug-in, possibly by the end of this month.
In my previous blog post, we established that Plantronics was the most popular brand of headset for recruiters, as least according to Top Echelon’s most recent survey of recruiters from all across the country. However, there’s more to a headset than just the brand name. For one thing, there’s the model of
For many recruiters, the telephone headset is their best friend, especially considering how much they’re on the phone during a given day. With that in mind, we decided to conduct a survey of recruiters across the country and ask them a series of questions about telephone headsets. Some of the
Companies may be in a hiring mode (or at the very least, a “semi-hiring” mode), but what are the types of jobs that they’re attempting to fill? According to recruiting industry trainer Doug Beabout, CPC of The Douglas Howard Group, many of them are attempting to fill positions that are, well,
The most recent recession was a brutal one (and the recovery isn’t much to write home about, either). In fact, many recruiters went out of business, and some of the ones that didn’t either switched their niche or entertained the thought of switching their niche. But how many of them
We’re going to wrap up our blog series about business structure by asking this question: exactly how much do recruiters know about business structure? Before we delve into that question, though, let’s quickly review what we’ve done to this point. Below are the titles of the first two posts in
Yes, the recovery has been slower than many people anticipated… but what does that mean for the recruiting industry in terms of job orders? Sure, the floodgates haven’t opened up, by any stretch of the imagination, but what are recruiters seeing out there? Are they seeing more job orders? Well, according to
