9/11 Remeber

Good productive day today. Not a lot of outbound calls but very good substance all day. I have to comment on a conversation I had with another recruiter today. She informed me of a name gathering service she uses. We have assistant recruiters in my office who do most of our name gathering/sourcing for candidates. After talking with her I decided I need to try this service. They will go into a list of companies, 1 company or how ever many you tell them and focus on getting you the names of every one you request IE: give me all the controllers at these 50 top tile ad carpet manufactures or give me all the executive secretaries in a 20 mile radius of Fargo ND. From her experience it sounds great. Fresh, up to date list of NON-ACTIVE candidates. No resume on monster, working with other recruiters or unemployed schmoes. These are a recruiters wet dream. So moral of the story would be: When you get that hot search assignment in Topeka KS, look at a sourcing/research company to give you a fresh list to recruit off of, it will be money well spent!

Monday Sept. 10th Lazy Day

Not much to mention today. Hr manger from a client I have done some work with called me today and asked for help on 4 searches. NY, MA, UT and CA. They have it posted internally, have other recruiters working on it and have it posted on MONSTER. I won't work on it hard but, I will through a couple of people at her. One thing I learned is that you can never have to many balls in the air/ rods in the water. So they are not exclusive or retained! They are within my market space and if I know someone I will get the SEND OUT. Over the years have have talked to a lot of recruiters who will not do this. Just does not seem smart. MONEY IS MONEY. So next time client or potential client calls and it is not the best search assignment still listen. Let them know you cannot work on it full time but, "you will keep your eyes open" Who knows, you may get a placement or find a great candidate to market elsewhere.
Have a good day and feel free to ask questions.

DAY 1

So here it goes. This is my 1st blog post. Let's see how long I can keep it going. Today is Saturday but do not get used to Saturday posts. I am going to make this blog all about headhunting, recruiting, staffing, search and recruitment, flesh peddling or any of the other titles we have been saddled with. So far this year I am at 200k cash-in (not my best year) and I have about 60k due in so , if do not make another deal I will have a 260k year. Got a lot of things pending though so I hope to do about 400k this year. This has been one of those strange years. I have more Search assignments and job openings than I know what to do with. Right now I have 30k in retainers in house and every time I make a marketing call I write another job order. Next week will be very hectic. Got to cover 3 retiners and I got contignet clients breathing down my neck ( do not ever want retainers from some of them). I have come up with a twist that will allow you to get paid for the work even if you do not make a plaement and 95% of the time the client is still happy.