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Mitch Sullivan commented on Jerry Albright's blog post 'Why "Temp to Direct" is the worst way to go'Mitch Sullivan commented on Ken Forrester's blog post 'It’s Time to Take Another Look at Headhunters'"How are you defining Headhunter here?"
Mitch Sullivan commented on Derdiver's blog post 'So,this is recruiting now and we are ok with it?'"Hi Derek.
I was just feeling sorry for this Manpower guy and thought I'd defend him. You know, for a laugh."
Mitch Sullivan commented on Mike Hayden's blog post 'Recruiter to owner 4 years later'"Personally, I'm of the opinion that every time a recruiter leaves an agency to set up on their own doing pretty much the same contingency job they left behind, the recruitment gene pool becomes ever more shallower than the piss puddle of a…"
Mitch Sullivan commented on Derdiver's blog post 'So,this is recruiting now and we are ok with it?'"Maybe they didn't call you back because they already filled the job."
Mitch Sullivan commented on Theodore's blog post 'Should the recruitment industry deploy tighter rules and regulations?'"How would a cap on companies only using 2 agencies be enforced?"
Mitch Sullivan commented on Shereef Nabeel Abdulhalim's blog post 'What goes inside a recruiters brain? A dilemma unraveled.'"Are you assuming that because a candidate works for a competitor company, they're talented? It sounds like it.
Also, you say that 8 out of 10 headhunted candidates will respond positively. Where did you get that statistic from?"
Mitch Sullivan commented on Amy Ala's blog post 'Lies, Damn Lies, and Recruiting'"What I've learned from this is that some recruiters are good and others are crap.
I suspect Laura's recent experiences had been with some of the crap ones."
Mitch Sullivan commented on KKenner's blog post 'When the Candidate asks..."Why didn't you call me?'"When I get a call from a candidate, I deal with it there and then.
I find that this takes a lot less time then telling them how busy I am."
Mitch Sullivan commented on KKenner's blog post 'When the Candidate asks..."Why didn't you call me?'"Does your company say the same thing to potential customers when they phone in?"
Mitch Sullivan commented on Greg Savage's blog post 'This recruiter bills $1,000,000 a year. Want to know how he does that?'""I estimate 98% of my work is retained or exclusive. I always asked for a retainer, and gain it 90% of the time and use exclusivity as my fallback position. I do not work on contingent assignments. If a client is not willing to commit to…"
Mitch Sullivan commented on Cora Mae Lengeman's blog post 'I HAVE RETIRED!!'"Well done, Cora. I hope you have a long and enjoyable retirement."
Mitch Sullivan commented on Ken Forrester's blog post 'It's The Headhunter Fee, Stupid!'"I think the entire concept of "top talent" is incredibly specious because it means something different to so many people.
I'm always dubious of recruiters who trade off this ability to locate this ubiquitous "top…"
Mitch Sullivan commented on AdMore Recruitment's blog post 'Leaving the dark side – how agency experience benefits the in-house recruiter.'"I agree.
I also think that the 3rd party sector will start to evolve again when some of those inhouse recruiters move back to the agency side.
Then more recruitment agencies will be able to have more grown-up conversations with their clients about…"
Mitch Sullivan commented on Jane Roth's blog post 'Trouble Collecting My Fee'"I agree with Jerry.
Take whatever they offer you and move on. Your real payment has been learning that the company isn't worth trying to recruit for.
BTW...the best way to start the process of determining if a company is worth recruiting…"
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The Secret To Cold-Calling
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:00pm 22 Comments 1 Like
Ever seen those training providers that promise to help you unlock the secrets to cold-calling?
Most of the time this “secret” turns out to be something inane like sounding really happy when you make the call or only doing it when the sun’s shining.
What seems to drive of most of the recruitment sales training I’ve ever seen is the fact that cold-calling is an omnipresent part of a recruiter’s life - and so they had better get good at it.
Frankly, I think that’s…
Continue Benefits of Using a Recruiter - The Sequel
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:41pm 20 Comments 0 Likes
The author of this blog has chosen to delete comments.
I doubt there is a better way of illustrating that the argument presented in your blog post has absolutely no intellectual rigour, than deleting comments.
And for the record, the two comments that were deleted (so far) were:
1) Suggesting that it…
Continue Why Recruitment Agencies Need To Become Pigs
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:24am 9 Comments 4 Likes
Bear with me on this one.
It must be searingly obvious to anyone who works in recruitment that recruitment agencies (and more specifically the people therein) are receiving a lot of flak at the moment – most of it around their oafish sales tactics and their diminishing ability to deliver a viable recruitment service to either the company or the candidate.
With the advent of the Internet came a lot of predictions that it would spell the end of recruitment…
Continue Looking for a safe stance on the use of exclamation marks in recruitment advertising? Me neither.
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 5:17am 1 Comment 0 Likes
The exclamation mark is known informally as a bang or a shriek. It’s frequently used in fiction and then mostly to express strong feeling in spoken dialogue.
There are broadly 3 types of people who use exclamations marks when writing:
- Amateurs
- Children
- Fashion Journalists
Clients don’t want their recruitment agencies to be any of these things – which makes the fact that some consistently use exclamation marks in their job…
Continue Corporate Social Responsibility Base Camp
Posted on September 10, 2009 at 11:01am 1 Comment 0 Likes
I rarely ever hear of medium to large sized SMEs ever attempting to develop any kind of 'employment brand' or being bothered about their employer reputation. I also hardly ever see any evidence of it in any of the recruitment communications that these companies put out.
Amazingly, they then compound the problem by treating those applicants who do respond to their self-indulgent job announcements/Internet postings, with very little respect. These applicants are people who invariably… Continue
Amazingly, they then compound the problem by treating those applicants who do respond to their self-indulgent job announcements/Internet postings, with very little respect. These applicants are people who invariably… Continue
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- At 7:53pm on April 19, 2012,
Ronald Peterson said… Did someone equate trading and recruiting? Do you really believe that being retained leads to a more successful effort? I do find your comments a tad strange. Ron P.
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