I’ve worked as a recruiter for J. Jill, SAP, and then started the boutique recruiting firm Boston Tech Talent, and offer you up these suggestions if you’re thinking about going out on your own. I don’t recommend starting a staffing company…
Agency Recruiting
Turn the Tables and Interview Your Recruiting Firms
Three weeks ago, I was invited to pitch to a group of investors on behalf of a potential client: a Series B Silicon Valley startup. Our job, as the client’s recruiting partner, was to convey to the investor that hiring…
3 Steps to Recruiting an Ideal Employee From a Client
All of us are currently on the lookout for ideal candidates. It’s an omnipresent issue when you consider that “82 percent of workers are seeking new job opportunities.” There’s a good chance you can find someone to fit your business in…
Woah! Scout Just Raised How Much?
It’s not everyday a solutions provider in our space gets $100 million bucks in funding. But it just happened. Earlier this week, John Chuang, the CEO of TRI Ventures, wrote that check to Scout Exchange. The large investment is intended…
The Power of Visibility as a Recruiter
Why is it so hard to find us, and consequently, get a hold of us as recruiters? Let us be better. Let us be easy to reach. Let us harness the power of visibility to drive our results. In this…
Automation, Text Messaging, and Lagging Confidence Showcase Hottest Recruiting Trends for 2018
Hot off the acquisition of TextRecruit by iCIMS, a new recruiting trends report from Bullhorn supports the strength of text messaging to communicate with job seekers over email and phone calls. Of the staffing professionals surveyed by the CRM and operations…
Recruitsy Aims to Become ‘Glassdoor’ for Recruiters and Staffing Agencies
We rate everything these days. Restaurants, employers, doctors, dog walkers — pretty much everyone and everything is under the microscope. That’s why it’s no surprise to see the launch of Recruitsy, a site that wants to build a directory of…
Why Online Reputation Management for Recruiters Is Important
Recruiters are some of the most externally facing people at the company. With that, their online reputation can make or break their ability to do their job well and can come with some major personal risks as well. Online reputation…
Landing My First CIO Placement
Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they’ll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they’ll bring you down. – Jason Fried Landing My First CIO Placement There is something about agency recruiting that gets the juices…
Google Cloud Jobs API Is Now Cloud Job Discovery, Embraces ATSs, Staffing Agencies
Google for Jobs and Google Hire get all the attention, but the company’s job search API, which helps make search results on corporate career sites and job boards smarter, continues to be a focus. Today, Google Cloud Job Discovery, formerly…
Recruiters Are in No Way Immune to Depression
Depression, anxiety and other mental health issues affect many in the recruiting industry. It would be easy to overlook this because of how well recruiters are able to hide it while they are at work or around their peers. If…
3 Staffing Executives Reveal Why Firms Should Embrace Automation
Automation is one of the most hotly debated topics in recruiting, but no matter what firms believe, automation is igniting change. According to our poll of 1,000 staffing professionals, 67 percent of them said automation will help to promote —…
When a Recruiter Should Break Up with a Candidate
It’s not me, it’s you. No really, it’s you! Your candidate just rejected the offer. Or disappeared without a trace during the interview process. How could that happen? Was there any way you could you have seen this coming? Well,…
If the Big Guy Gets a Break, Why Can’t ‘We the People?’
Dear U.S. Corporations: If the President of the United States gets a break on meeting the criteria and requirements of the job description — can we give each other a little break too? Pretty much my whole career has been…
The Importance of Recruiters
It’s easy to overlook your impact. Every day, you’ve got a full calendar and an overflowing desk. Taking a moment to celebrate what you do most likely isn’t on your to-do list. One of the leaders I advise believes you…
Actually, Recruiters Are Marketers
Recruiters are not marketers, or researchers, copywriters, sourcing experts, or data analysts, according to a recent article by Graeme Johnson right here on ERE. While that article was chock full of true statements and accurate analyses of recruiter strengths and…
Recruiters Are Not Marketers
When the concept of recruiters thinking more like marketers was first thrown around as a concept in the early 00’s, as a recruiter I thought it sounded great. It made recruitment seem sexier, so I thought, “yeah, let’s be marketers!” A…
You’ve Got to Get to Know Your Industry Better
The No. 1 statement of hubris I’ve heard from other recruiters has been, “I do awesome and I don’t need to know my client’s business to do it.” I’m sure there’s a few hiring managers reading that right now thinking,…
The Impact of Brexit on Executive Search
The Brexit “leave” vote was something of a surprise; now, we must wade through the short-term economic slide. Sectors like financial services will undoubtedly see some companies’ European operations relocating away from the UK to locations within the EU single…
The Exact Agency Fee You’ll Pay for Engineering and IT Talent in 2016
First, the good news — not all direct hire agency fees will be increasing in 2016. Salaries are continuing to rise, but the payment rate for direct hire recruiters (a percentage of the first year’s salary) is fluctuating by industry…