Blog for Recruiters
These articles share recruiting expertise and offer best practices – helping you streamline your recruiting processes.
Eight Million Job Openings by 2013, and Nobody to Fill Them
by Matthew Deutsch | Jul 26, 2011 | Recruiter Training, Top Echelon Blog
In a recent blog post, I addressed the fact that there are currently three million job openings in the country right now, at a time when the unemployment rate is above 9%. This fact underscores the gap that currently exists between the skills that companies are...

How Do Recruiters’ Cash-In Totals Compare to a Year Ago?
by Mark Demaree | Jul 24, 2011 | Recruiter Training, Top Echelon Blog
At Top Echelon, we like to keep our finger on the pulse of what’s going on with recruiters, especially in terms of how well they’re doing on their desk. That’s why we conduct polls of recruiters every week and also send out email surveys on a regular basis. The...

Not Enough Job Orders, or Not Enough Candidates?
by Matthew Deutsch | Jul 22, 2011 | Recruiter Training, Top Echelon Blog
Is the economy recovering? Is it not? Are we in a recession? Are we not? Does it matter? The bottom line is that companies aren’t exactly setting the world on fire when it comes to hiring. Now, there are many factors at work here, but there’s one factor in...

How Do Recruiters Spend the Majority of Their Day?
by Matthew Deutsch | Jul 15, 2011 | Recruiter Training, Top Echelon Blog
There is perhaps nothing more valuable to a recruiter than their time. What they do with that time directly affects how many placements they make and how much they bill. Spend time doing the wrong things, and... well, we know how that ends. With that in mind, we...