Question of the day: How many searches can you actively manage on your desk?

In follow up to today's RBCDaily and yesterday's great #RBChat;

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Permalink Reply by Brian K. Johnston on February 7, 2012 at 3:07pm

8-10

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Poreda on February 7, 2012 at 4:42pm

Depends on too many factors to mention. You can work on far more if they are similar in scope.

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Permalink Reply by Blair Clark on February 7, 2012 at 4:54pm

In small market Saskatchewan where supply is far less than demand we allocate 3 to 6, $100K+/- compensation level searches per recruiter anticipating a 85% conversion rate. Generally, in this market searches take 6 to 15 weeks to close.

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Permalink Reply by Will Branning on February 7, 2012 at 5:08pm

4-6 assuming all different positions, more if there is a strong cross over between some of them...

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Permalink Reply by Caitlin Carruthers on February 7, 2012 at 6:22pm

Depends on whether or not I want to have a nervous breakdown! When I was an agency recruiter, I would handle 5-8. Since I've moved into in-house recruitment, my record is 27 at one time (although these were all at different stages of the process so some required far less work than others). Typically, I have around 15 or so on the go.

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Permalink Reply by Mack on February 7, 2012 at 11:35pm

I'm currently working on 50 searches all Engineering

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Permalink Reply by Tiffany Nugent on February 8, 2012 at 8:47am

When I was an agency recruiter, I never had more than 8 or so at a time. I've been in house for 2 years now, and my max was 40. I worked with that load, give or take 5, until we hired help, because I can tell you that 40 is too much, since they were all different areas. Now that we've added recruiters, I average around 20-25.

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Permalink Reply by Blair Clark on February 8, 2012 at 9:58am

I would hope executive search and permanent placement consultants are talking about closeable searches.

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Permalink Reply by Shirish Morab on February 8, 2012 at 12:27pm

I have managed upto 20 searches at a time, but I have been the most productive when I have about 4-5 positions.

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Permalink Reply by Amy Ala Miller on February 10, 2012 at 6:58pm

Sounds about right - on the agency side I averaged between 5-25 depending on the senority level of the role. As a corporate recruiter my all time high was 45 - now I run between 15-25 with 10-12 hiring managers actively interviewing at any given time. A lot of personalities to deal with :)