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
In my previous blog post regarding business structure, I noted that the most popular structure for recruiters was the “S Corporation,” by a wide margin, as a matter of fact. We determined that fact by conducting a survey of recruiters from all across the country. We asked recruiters some other
Right now, the vast majority of hiring managers believe that it’s a “buyer’s market” for companies when it comes to hiring new employees, and they’re basing this belief upon a number of largely superficial factors. The nation is still emerging from what’s been commonly referred to as “The Great Recession.”
Is this economic recovery different than previous ones, especially when it comes to recruiting? Industry trainer Doug Beabout, CPC of The Douglas Howard Group certainly seems to think so, and he also believes that a large number of recruiters aren’t coming to grips with that reality. “The economy is improving in
Okay, so we do like to tease you with headlines similar to the one above, but that’s one of the great things about the surveys that we conduct at Top Echelon. We ask recruiters all across the country questions about their recruiting firm and their recruiting process, and then we
At Top Echelon, we help recruiters make more placements with our tools and services, both free and paid. We’re pleased to present one of our FREE online training webinars for recruiters from the RecruiterTraining.net website: “Recruiting Tour de Force” by Margaret Graziano of KeenHire. There is no charge to watch
Recruiting is a very unique profession, for a number of different reasons. One of those reasons is that each firm owner has a myriad of choices regarding how best to run their particular business—which things to add and which things to not and which tools to implement and which to
Social media for recruitment appears to be all the rage, but just how much of the rage should it be? Opinions vary, and one of those opinions is that of recruiting industry trainer “Social media is not going to make a lot of placements,” said Bartos. “You’ve got to be
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