As 2010 winds down with the worst unemployment rate (9.8% as of 12/3/10), over 15 million people are seeking new opportunities. Over the last couple of years, we’ve found that Baby Boomers didn’t…

Running a great recruitment business is difficult. The competition, the compliance, the cash flow issues and most of all, the people complexity creates an ideal environment to screw up.

Here are 10 of my biggest blunders, some of which I have made several times. I offer them up as a guide on what NOT to do when running a recruitment company.

1. Focusing too heavily on consultant activity levels. Slavishly counting activities, measuring ratios,…

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As an industry that is constantly evolving with new…

Whether you grow in this business or die a slow death in it has everything to do with your choices. You can choose to learn from your successes and mistakes, or you can keep repeating the same old behaviors and hope for a different result (which never comes).

I challenge you to pick one aspect of our business, such as asking for referrals, selling value, raising your rates, or making cold calls. Then, pick one thing to change that you believe will improve that area and do it…right…

With 2011 looming on the horizon, we thought it would be a good idea to ask Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters what their clients’ attitudes are toward hiring. After all, a new year is almost upon us . . . a fresh start, a clean slate, so to speak. So we conducted a poll of the Network Membership and posed the following question:…

Back in October, Agile wrote “10 Reasons Why IT Jobs Are Worth Considering.” It was written, in part, because we were beginning to see an uptick in contract jobs from many of our clients. While IT budgets…

In a previous post the latest Recruiting Trends analysis distributed by Michigan State University was summarized. Getting a little more specific, we will look at the current state of college recruitment among those employers polled for the study.

According to the research done by the team at MSU, the post popular method of college recruiting is simply…

Recruiting Firms ,being more and more dependent on technology can be at risk of running off the rails in a heartbeat causing a costly disruption in business if we do not have a business disruption plan. Consider what would happen if your internet provider was down for a week. How devastating would it be if a lightening strike or a power failure shut down your ability to access your computer for more than a few hours. Do you use an online backup for data and financial information, suppose…

The holidays are right around the corner where it’s now a time to reflect on the year that is near its end and, 2011, the new year to come. A time to get together with close friends and family and perhaps ... A time to think of those not so fortunate - where volunteering to help those in need might be a reminder of how thankful and grateful we should be..., for what we do have.…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about the value of words in recruiting, why ROI stinks to measure social recruiting, insights on recruitment for 2011, recruiting continuing beyond hiring and some Twitter basics.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order), enjoy!:…

Volume added in the past 60 days and the percentage increase compared to last year.

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Every day we are deluged with images, sounds, sights, smells….and…