Plant Your Tree: How to Unlock Recruiting Success Now!

QUESTION: Mike, we are more than halfway through the year, and I am nowhere near my goal. I am incredibly undisciplined and if I had to confess, unfocused. I have a goal of $300,000 for the year and am sitting at about $75,000. How do I fix that and unlock recruiting...

How to Charge More in a Client-Friendly Way

QUESTION: How can I raise fees with my existing clients? I settled for 20% with some of them a few years ago. Now, I have proven myself to them, and I know they are paying higher fees to others. https://youtu.be/SdkNd0lrRFk Starting the Conversation About Raising...

Recruiting in a Slowdown? Here’s How to Win Now

QUESTION: Mike, you have talked about, especially in a softer economic environment, increasing your activity to 10 to 15 conversations per day. I am finding it harder and harder to get in touch with people on the phone, and that it's an unrealistic target. What are...

The RecruiterU Has Merged!

As of August 1, 2024 TRU has merged with Next Level Exchange, Dimensional Search, Sanford Rose Associates, and all Starfish Partners enterprises to transform recruitment training, coaching, and consulting.

Techniques for Engaging Candidates that Really Work

Sep 14, 2021 | Working with Candidates

QUESTION: My question is about engaging candidates, motivating them to actually get on the phone and have a conversation. In 2020 I was working retained and having a similarly difficult time. I thought people were just too distracted with COVID, setting up new...

Recruiting Firm Succession Planning Considerations

Sep 7, 2021 | Recruiting Business Plans

QUESTION: What are some factors now that I need to take into consideration in how to do succession planning? - Gary ANSWER: If you want to sell your business, and I will just include succession planning since that is one of the options, you need to be...

How to Convince Your Client to Work with You Exclusively

Aug 31, 2021 | Uncategorized

QUESTION: How do you shift a client to want to engage with you exclusively in a more volume-driven market? I work in construction and engineering and want to do exclusive work. I do not want to lose work, but I also do not want to be competing with everyone else...

Strategies for Getting in Touch with Hiring Managers

Aug 24, 2021 | Marketing for Recruiters

QUESTION: I have no problem reaching candidates, but hiring managers and above are really tough to connect with. I make phone appointments that are partially successful, but I need help on this. - Herbert ANSWER: The two main concepts we talk about to...

Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable When Discussing Fee and Closing the Sale

Aug 17, 2021 | Retained Search

QUESTION: How do I become more comfortable and conversant in discussing my fee and closing the sale with a client? I have gotten so much better at doing the diagnostic, but I continue to choke when it comes to discussing the fee. - Felicia ANSWER: That...

Post-COVID Recruiting Mindset

Aug 10, 2021 | Being the Leader In Your Firm

QUESTION: Mike, what new recruitment mindset strategy would you recommend now that the COVID pandemic is almost over? - JC ANSWER: From a mindset standpoint, during the early months of COVID - I am going from memory and metrics from our clients - there...

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