We are coming to the end of a whirlwind calendar of seven recruitment conferences in five weeks, from the USA to France, Vietnam, and New Zealand. While the logistics were sometimes tricky, and the travel schedule exhausting, we love seeing our members come away with renewed enthusiasm for their desks. Read the rest of this entry »
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3 Reasons to Attend Recruitment Conferences
by Veronica BlattHow to Demand the Biggest Recruitment Fees
by Liz Carey
Dreaming of 30% recruitment fees? As a recruiter, working the right industries and high-profile jobs where quality candidates are in great demand are obvious ways to earn big recruitment fees. But you won’t always have a stack of VP or Director-level jobs sitting on your desk… so how do you negotiate a bigger recruitment fee?
A client must be greatly motivated to pay a large recruitment fee – often when they can’t find the candidate they need and have exhausted all resources. Companies are willing to pay for top talent, and as a recruiter, your challenge is to convince them that you are the only one suitable of finding those superstar candidates. Read the rest of this entry »
3 Analytic Metrics Recruiters Must Know
by Veronica Blatt
Today’s guest blogger is Sam Ajam of BuzzRecruiter.com. Founded in 2006, BuzzRecruiter.com creates design and marketing buzz that serves the recruiting and staffing industry nationwide. Based in Silicon Valley and run by BizzwithBuzz, Inc, BuzzRecruiter.com specializes in using the latest graphic design, web marketing tools, and technology to boost your brand’s web presence and outshine the competition. At BuzzRecruiter.com, they always put the client first. BuzzRecruiter.com offers top notch customer service, one-on-one consultations, and custom solutions in responsive web design, graphic design, search engine optimization (SEO), web and interactive marketing, social media branding and content writing solutions.
At BuzzRecruiter, their motto is Connect, Communicate, and Compete – they are committed to helping recruiters connect with clients and top talent, communicate with them through savvy design and marketing communications, and compete to place those top candidates with leading companies in a variety of industries. Recruitment is an active process and they can help you hone your public image for the best results.
BuzzRecruiter.com is proud to serve the NPAworldwide organization and its affiliated customers. To learn more, please visit www.buzzrecruiter.com
There is no shortage of qualified talent in today’s job pool, but some companies still find it hard to hire the employees they need. The recruiting process itself could be to blame. Read the rest of this entry »
Mobile Work: The Next Recruitment Challenge?
by Dave Nerz
HR Magazine reports that by 2020, the mobile workforce is projected to comprise roughly three-quarters of the US workforce. Let me say that again in a different way. Three in four US employees will be working from a remote location at least some time each day, week, or month. Wow, talk about challenges to process and company culture; this one will be substantial. Not to mention the recruitment challenge it may create. Read the rest of this entry »
Who’s on Your Fantasy Recruiting Team?
by Liz Carey
I’m a total fantasy sports nerd, and football drafting season is upon us. For those unfamiliar with it, fantasy football is an online game where users draft football players onto their virtual “fantasy team” and compete weekly with other users in the league. Each player accrues points for your team based on their real-life statistics like touchdowns, pass yards, rush yards, etc.
In addition to being a fun hobby, fantasy football draws parallels to the recruiting world, such as: Read the rest of this entry »
Disaster Recovery Basics for Your Recruitment Firm
by Veronica Blatt
As I write this, Tropical Storm Harvey is still battering Houston and the surrounding Gulf Coast with unprecedented rainfalls. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been impacted by this historic storm. Thousands are displaced from their homes, and business interruptions must be staggering as well. While most of us will not experience a catastrophe of this magnitude, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of smaller disasters each year. How well-prepared is your recruitment firm to survive? If you have not given time or thought to a disaster recovery plan, get started now! Here are some basics: Read the rest of this entry »
Help in a Tough Talent Market
by Sarah Freiburger
Imagine for a moment that being a recruiter is the same thing as being a tourist on a sandy beach in the middle of summer. You show up early to try and get the best chance at finding a perfect shell washed up on shore, only to discover that thousands of other people are also on that beach, looking for the same thing as you battle to get to the shoreline. Trying to get ahead, you bring your family down with you, but you seem to spend more time teaching them what you are looking for than seeing any success. So now you have exhausted yourself trying to build the perfect plan with the bulk to accomplish it, only to be repeating over and over which type of shells you are even searching for and why. Read the rest of this entry »
20 Questions You Need to Ask When Qualifying a Job Order
by Sarah Freiburger
Would you say “I do” to someone before knowing exactly who they were as a person? Hopefully not, and hopefully you feel the same way when saying “yes” to taking on a job order for a client. While not as heavy of a commitment as marriage, agreeing to a job order is still putting your time and resources on the line, and sends a clear image of your brand on what you are able to deliver. Read the rest of this entry »
Quirky Interview Questions
by Dave Nerz
So we have all heard these quirky interview questions. Most of us have tried one or two of these recruitment tricks at the end of a candidate interview. What is important is how skilled you are in asking the question and how effective you are at learning something from the answer that is provided.
One I like…”On a scale of 1 to 10, how weird are you?” The word is that Zappos’ CEO likes weird and considers it a company core value. Read the rest of this entry »
5 Recruiter Tips to Improve Phone Skills
by Veronica Blatt
It’s no secret that telephone usage is on the decline. So much information is available at our fingertips that dialing seems unnecessary or intrusive. As kids, my brothers and I fought over the phone as much as we fought over which cartoons to watch! And I had one good friend that I could *never* reach because of her mom’s LEGENDARY hours-long calls back in the days before call-waiting and voice mail (yes, I’m dating myself). Now I find I’m spending time TEACHING my almost-teenager HOW to use the phone … something that once seemed to be second nature. Read the rest of this entry »