Often times companies don't understand the true leverage you can give a professional recruiter by retaining them. Forget about the fact that your search goes straight to the top of the priority list and everyone else gets pushed down the ladder. It's not even about the fact that retained clients get the top candidates first. Just the sheer power of being able to market your opportunity as one that is retained says a thousand words. Let me tell you why.

This year more candidates have asked ME if I am retained or if I am working on a ...

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Remember the movie years back called Pay It Forward? If you do and saw it like I did, then you will probably get this message more clear than others. In my early years in business I was a fresh faced, gung-ho, take orders, produce results, get promoted kind of guy. And it worked, believe me. I worked till my fingers bled and yearned for results. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by intelligent people along the way that shaped who I am today. I laugh at those early years, because now, almost a decade later I realize that I ...

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I was inspired to tackle this topic after catching a LinkedIn update from a friend who pointed out that in a lately popular trend, GM becomes the second corporate behemoth to appoint a new Chief of HR that is not from HR. Interesting move? Maybe not as much as you would think. Let me point out why.

This year has revealed so many challenges for companies of all shapes and sizes. Challenges all focused around external factors. The words of the year: attrition, defection, turnover, layoffs, cutbacks and severances. Put these external factors together with words that encourage fear, uncertainty ...

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I've been meaning to get around to this topic for months. The reason I have not yet put virtual pen to virtual paper is that I was waiting to hear something different; a different response, a difference maneuver, a new vision, but alas I have yet to hear any different so you get the goods today.

I think it's important to paint you a picture so this is a bit more clear:

Case Study 1
Company A has been in business for the last 50 years. Profits have steadily risen during the good years, remained flat during the ...

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