What would you do?
You take a role from a client who you’ve successfully recruited for previously several times and who now always calls you first and gives you a few days head start on other agencies.
As a result of this, the client has negotiated you down from your normal 20% to 17.5%.
You source candidates and find two that are good enough to submit.
The client likes one of the candidates. A lot.
The client talks about not bothering to see any more candidates. They even talk about…
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Universal Laws of Recruitment
This blog is another of those ‘work in progress’ ideas that I always think I’ll come back and add to, but never do.
Here are my first two contributions. One is blindingly obvious, the other less so.
1. The more cliches in a job advertisement, the weaker the relationship between the recruitment agency and the hiring company.
2. If you put “Technical Headhunter of Unreachable Talent” or “Professor of Placements” as your job title on LinkedIn, the chances are that you’re a bit of…
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How to Recruit Recruiters
Today I have a guest post from Jonathan Reed.
Jon has been a recruiter for over 15 years and is one of those decent R2Rs you sometimes hear about. This was originally a response Jon made to a discussion on LinkedIn and was so good I thought it deserved to be a blog in its own right.
Jon doesn’t have his own blog, so maybe this might encourage him to start one.
Anyway, here it is:
“It’s really simple to find and hire experienced recruitment consultants.
Stop trying…
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