Recruitment Website Best Practices
QUESTION: Mike, what are your thoughts on recruiting websites? Do I really even need a website? ANSWER: Great question! The short answer to your question is YES! The reality is your website is your digital business card. It is what gives your recruiting practice...
What to Look for in a New Recruiting Desk
QUESTION: What are the characteristics you look for when investigating and evaluating a new recruiting desk? - Michael ANSWER: That is a really good question. Most people would want to go to an industry that is new, hot, and sexy. Let me defend why. The hottest...
How to Train a New Recruiter in a Nutshell
QUESTION: There are four pieces to my business: Executive search, finance sales, marketing, and ops, recruiting in the same areas for middle on either temp to hire or direct, staffing for manufacturing, call centers, and biotech, and leadership development and...
Focus on Marketing Outcomes, Not Hours Spent
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...
Best Practices for Organizing a New Search
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...
Tactic for Moving From HR to the Hiring Manager
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...