Candidates ghosting has become quite a problem in the employment marketplace during the past year or so. More and more, candidates are simply disappearing during various stages of the hiring process. Those stages include the following: Phone screen Face-to-face interview…

Last week in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog, we discussed what recruiters think of each other in this current market. We received some help from our 2019 State of the Recruiting Industry Survey, which we conducted earlier this year. (We’ll be…

The economy has been good, more or less, for the past several years. In fact, we’re in the midst of the second-longest bull market in our nation’s history. It recently celebrated its 10th birthday. Something interesting happens in the recruiting…

If there’s one thing that every recruiter wants to do in the New Year, it’s speed up the recruiting process. (Actually, that would apply to every year.) Of course, there are many factors that are out of a recruiter’s control….

Age is like the forgotten step-child of protected classes in employment law. Age discrimination doesn’t get the attention that racial and sexual discrimination get. Winning an age discrimination case is difficult for employees. But while it may not be a…

Should recruiters just ignore job hoppers? For many recruiters, the knee-jerk reaction to this question is a resounding “Yes!” After all, your clients don’t want to pay good money to place a candidate, only to have to do it all…

“Choosy mothers choose Jif.” That sentence alone demonstrates the power of branding. In this case, it demonstrates product branding. But how choosy are your clients? Do they even like peanut butter? (Perhaps they’re allergic to it.) Of course, we’re NOT…

Every recruiter would like to double their recruiting revenue. But the question is HOW do you accomplish such a thing? The good news is that we have the answer! Well, not us, specifically, but Greg Doersching of Bullseye Mentor, a…

It’s a candidates’ market. We all know that. Most importantly, candidates know that, especially top candidates. As a result, they’re asking for more and more in terms of offers. But are they now getting . . . greedy? Well, greed…

There is no doubt that the employment marketplace is tight right now. It’s a candidates’ market. Job openings are plentiful. Qualified candidates, on the other hand, are not. But is it the tightest market that recruiters have ever seen? Well…