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QUESTION: How many hours a week or day do you suggest a full desk recruiter should spend on marketing calls – someone that is very experienced and also for someone that is starting to market after only working on the candidate side? – Penny, Omaha, NE ANSWER: How many hours a week do you suggest […]
QUESTION: What do you do after getting a search? How do you organize it? My process right now is sending out the roles to our team of independent recruiters, checking submittals from similar searches, and then writing to LinkedIn/Monster. If I do not find anything for a few days, then I involve my offshore researcher […]
QUESTION: What is the best way to handle a contingency search where my contact is not the hiring manager, but the head of recruiting? Would I do the job intake with them, or should I insist on speaking with a hiring manager? So far, I am getting this about 50% of the time with my […]
QUESTION: Hi Mike, I heard you talk about using a marketing coordinator to get job order leads for a senior team member. In this case, it would be me as the owner of the company. How do you compensate them? If they find an opening that turns into a client, do they get residual income […]
QUESTION: When selling retained search, do you have a strategy for when the client is sold on the retainer but is resistant to committing to money upfront? – Anonymous ANSWER: This situation happens quite a bit, regardless if this is your first retainer or you work a fully retained desk. Many people think […]
QUESTION: We have been in a great economy for the last 10 years and my desk was doing fantastic. Now I want to diversify into other areas in my recruiting company. What is the best place to get started? What is a quick process to give me some ideas on starting that process? – Lewis, […]
QUESTION: Mike, I have just executed a retained search for a new client for a search for them. They are still interviewing my shortlist, but I just informed me that they may want to hire two of my candidates. There is a potential of two placements from the same search. I have not been asked […]
QUESTION: I am stuck between $100,000 and $250,000 on billings per year, and I am working about 60 hours a week. What do people who bill $350,000 or $400,000 a year consistently do differently? – Alan ANSWER: I do not know what you are doing, but I do know some of the traits of […]
QUESTION: Mike, I have taken your advice and have hired recruiters. My weakness is holding them accountable. I know you have talked about 15 presentations a day as a minimum standard. Help me again with what happens if they do not hit their targets. – Nicole, Chicago ANSWER: Now more than ever it is important […]
QUESTION: I am an early morning person on the East Coast in the U.S. and I am just restarting on my national desk. Are there any ways to take advantage of the time zone difference other than making calls a little later? Ways to take advantage of voicemail or set me apart as memorable? – […]
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Michael opened his firm in early 1990. Between 1990 and 1996 Michael cashed-in a mere $1 million as a billing manager. Frustrated, and wanting more, he drastically changed his approach to both the client and candidate side of the business. The result? Michael cashed in over $5.6 million between late 1996 and the end of 2001, when he came off a desk. During that time frame he ranked as a top 10 billing managers three times, ranking as high as second in 2000 with cash in on his desk in excess of $2 million. In 2001 Michael made the strategic decision to grow his firm instead of developing his individual recruiting practice. Training his team on the techniques that launched him, he developed an office that ranks in the top 3% of offices. He was ranked the eleventh fastest growing IT search firm in the country.
