I’m looking for a Big Recruiter
CLIENT DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
BRIGHTON
Business Development is boss.
You know why.
It’s because it’s not easy and most people don’t want to do it.
You also know that it’s the most important part of the recruitment stakeholder triangle – because candidates aren’t the ones paying any money.
So you do business development well and reap the rewards. It’s like going the gym. The lazy make their excuses not to do it and get fat. You get stuck in and get the gains.
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Quick tip for hiring managers
Choosing a recruitment agency for most hiring managers is a task they take to with the same enthusiasm the rest of us have for calling Vodafone’s customer service.
Most take refuge in agency claims to being specialists in whatever job it is they need to fill. Because that is what they want to hear. That a specialist is going to know what to do.
This is because most hiring managers hate dealing with anything recruitment related.
Is someone calling themselves a specialist enough…
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Championing the underdog
A year or so ago I saw an internal recruiter from Hewlett Packard bragging on LinkedIn about how successful he and his team had been in filling open job requisitions. He even provided stats.
Amid all the back-slapping and sycophancy – much of it from other inhouse recruiters and, depressingly, some of it from agency recruiters hoping to be fed a few scraps from the HP banquet table – I turned-up and suggested that he’d omitted to mention the biggest contributing factor to his…
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