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Time to go it alone as a recruiter
This article is not about starting your own recruitment agency or recruitment business. In fact, around eighty percent of new start-ups fail in the first couple of years, and I don’t think the recruitment industry bucks that trend very much if at all. How...
LinkedIn Tactics For Recruiters
Much has been said and written on this subject and often by LinkedIn “gurus”. I’m no guru, just a guy in recruitment who has been around LinkedIn long enough to have worked out a few LinkedIn Tactics for Recruiters. Try out a few of the LinkedIn...
15 Ways to Grow Your Recruitment Agency – Part Three
Hi. Thanks for all the kind words I have received from Recruitment Agency owners, Managing Directors, and leaders of teams. Agencies, recruitment businesses and executive search firms alike – it's apparent I’ve hit a sweet spot with the last two articles....
15 Ways to Grow Your Recruitment Agency – Part Two
Hi. If you have taken the opportunity to read the first of my articles on the subject of growing your recruitment agency, then you will know that: This series of three articles will help you explore as a recruitment agency owner, director or manager what...
15 Ways to Grow Your Recruitment Agency – Part One
This series of three articles will help you explore as a recruitment agency owner, director or manager what key changes, you can make to grow your recruitment agency. It will give you a great checklist if you are looking to start a recruitment agency. It...
It’s a sprint, a marathon and everything in between
Written by RMI’s CEO, Warren Kemp. Your phone rings. It’s a stranger asking to speak with you. You say hello and ask how can you help. He tells you his friend has suggested that he calls you as he is looking for a new job and hopes you can help him. You ask the...
Are you confused about the value of social media as a business development tool?
Here’s five things that will help you make up your mind 1. If you are in a fast and furious sector eg Temp Drivers, then it’s unlikely the Transport Manager is going to check out your blog. However, your drivers are your marketing so concentrate on attracting them eg...
Staff Retention….Is There a Silver Bullet?
Many recruitment businesses have difficulty attracting their own staff but most struggle to retain them. Why is this? While there is no silver bullet answers these 5 things will definitely reduce attrition and maintain retention. Lead By Consistency I’ve seen...
10 things that will make you a better headhunter
One of the most widely used terms in recruitment is ‘headhunter’. That seems strange to me given that true headhunter’s make up a very small proportion of the recruitment sector. In this article, I aim to bust a few myths and at the same time if you are a...
10 Ways to get ahead in recruitment
The recruitment sector tends to attract people that end up falling into two camps, those that join the band of recruiters and then leave pretty quickly and those that are smitten and stay for life. I’m coming up to my silver watch time and can look back on my...
So what are the benefits of recruitment training online?
First of all, I have a foot in both camps. I run a face to face training company and I provide recruitment training options online. So when we explore the benefits of online recruitment training (or e-learning as it is often called) this is an unbiased blog.
Is Recruitment Marketing Important?
So why is recruitment marketing important, for many recruitment agencies and businesses, marketing is a function that takes a back seat when time is short. Indeed, even when things are slow in the office the rallying call is typically “Hit the phones” rather than...
The technology changing recruitment and how we find candidates
Recruitment is evolving at a rapid pace in today’s workplace as it keeps up with the changing digital environment. As social media and digital platforms become immersed into all aspects of work and leisure, recruitment has embraced this as much as any other industry....
So….you’ve been set a target for this year that’s challenging? Bring it on!
Every year you should be increasing your fee income as a recruiter. (I should add that maintaining the same revenue is ok if you are taking on additional responsibilities or if you want to work less hours for the same result). So, let’s say that this year’s target is...
Time to get yourself a ‘Candidate Care Officer’
What level of importance do you place on your candidate (customer) service? With more and more recruitment sourcing tools available, and recruiters using the same ones as each other e.g. LinkedIn, it’s fair to say we are all speaking to the same potential candidates....
Raising the bar once more
I’ve been lucky enough to have had a good career in recruitment and many years of that as an advisor to recruitment firms. It seems to me that since the recession of 2008/9 we have been too accepting of lower fees, less retainers, more multiple agency assignments and...