As the leader of Talent Board and the Candidate Experience Awards, I’m often asked about the evolution of the candidate experience. What has changed in the … Read more
Talent Pros Reveal How They Are Handling Pay Negotiations
How are you handling salary and pay negotiations differently than a year ago? This question was posed to talent professionals for their insights. From … Read more
Best Hire Ever: Tim Sackett’s Lifetime Movie + What Candidates Want From Bonus Plans
In Episode 25 of Best Hire Ever, Kris Dunn talks with Tim Sackett about how bonus plan information drives candidate behavior and a recruiter’s … Read more
Quality Trumps Quantity of Hires — and It Doesn’t Come Cheap
One European CEO, a big football (soccer) fan, pointed out that if you gave him a large enough budget, he’d be confident he could put together a winning … Read more
Recruiter Realness: “Recruiters Don’t Understand Our Day-to-Day Struggles”
As recruiters, we talk a lot about metrics. And that’s exactly what I was going to write about for this article…until I realized, maybe it’s not me … Read more
The Top 5 No-cost Candidate-selling Approaches
In last week’s companion article “The Top 5 No Cost Sourcing Approaches — And Each Is Guaranteed To Work,” I covered the five best no-cost approaches … Read more
Closing Candidates
Closing candidates isn’t about getting someone to accept a job so you can fill a requisition or generate a commission. It is about reminding them why … Read more
Why Do People Switch Jobs? It’s Mostly the Same No Matter How Much They Make
Here’s the big takeaway from this latest bit of candidate data from Ladders, the career site for six-figure jobs: When it comes to pay, perks, and … Read more
Employees Excel at Selling Candidates – The Warriors’ ‘Hampton 5 Story’
When it comes to closing top candidates, your own employees are the best salespeople. Top recruiting leaders already know the tremendous value that a firm … Read more
Let Job Candidates Sell Themselves On Your Company
Hiring is a form of selling: You’re selling opportunity. The hope is that your best prospective buyers — top talent –choose you. During … Read more
9 Steps To Making a Winning Job Offer
Editor’s note: In this column, Jorg Stegemann, one of Europe’s leading independent search consultants, offers advice to hiring managers on making an offer. … Read more
Agreements, Slumps, and Offers
Topic 1: Should you start a search without a signed agreement? We were all likely taught that you should never start a search without a signed agreement. … Read more
If You’re Always Closing, You’re Not Selling
Closing techniques are as old as the sales profession; isn’t “Always Be Closing” the A-B-C of sales? Could this practice have anything to do with the sales … Read more
How To Counteroffer Proof Your Offers
Ben Franklin said “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It’s an old English proverb (as in Ye Olde) that goes back many centuries even prior … Read more
Step-by-Step to “Closing to the No On Money”
Dear Barb: In the past 30 days I’ve had three offers turned down and they all came down to money. I heard you teach a process that I think you called, … Read more
Don’t Let the Client Bulldoze You Into Making the Offer
You’ve worked hard and spent weeks assessing the client’s needs and interviewing potential candidates. Finally the perfect match has been found and the … Read more
With Candidates, You Have to Dig Deep and Pre-Close
Dear Barb: Am I the only recruiter who feels candidates are not telling us the truth during interviews? They tell me one thing and then give different … Read more
Here’s How to Close to the ‘No’
Dear Barb: I heard you speak in Mexico and I remember you teaching us how to close people to the “NO” on money and I’ve forgotten how to do it. When I was … Read more
Can A Company Blow An Interview? Yes It Can!
Has your company ever lost the competition for a great candidate to a competitive offer? If so, there’s an excellent chance that your firm may not have … Read more
Implementing an Effective Counteroffer Prevention Strategy
Almost daily, I receive calls from practitioners who find themselves challenged by the fact their candidates are receiving an ever increasing number of … Read more