During a recent Recruiter Coaching Webinar Series of webinars sponsored by Top Echelon and the Big Biller recruiting software, renowned industry trainer Greg Doersching of Bullseye Mentor showed recruiters how to survive and thrive during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This series of webinars was held on three separate days. We uploaded the recorded versions of these webinars as training videos in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Library. Below are the titles and descriptions of these training videos.

Working “On”: Dealing with Your Desk in the New Now!

In this training video, Greg will focus on things you should be spending time working “on” right now. You’ve got some time available, where the normal “hustle and bustle” of running a recruiting desk isn’t happening. So use this time wisely and get ahead of the curve as we start recover from the COVID-19 disruption.

Click HERE to watch this training video!

Working “In”: Dealing with Your Desk in the New Now!

According to Greg, just because many companies have slowed down their hiring process and pushed the pause button on any number of searches due to COVID-19 doesn’t mean you should stop doing your job. It just takes a different approach and an enhanced level of finesse. This session will focus on just that—the most productive types of calls and approaches that you should be making right NOW.

Click HERE to watch this training video!

Working “Over”: Dealing with Your Desk in the New Now!

During this training video, Greg will focus on working “over” some of the steps in your recruiting process that cause you inefficiencies, bottlenecks and slow-downs. These are the things that cost you candidates, cost you clients, and most importantly, cost you money.

Click HERE to watch this training video!

If you’re an agency recruiter or search consultant and you’re looking to sharpen your recruitment skills, you can do so with continuous training and education. The good news is that we can help with the Top Echelon Expert Recruiter Coaching Series of webinars!

These webinars are conducted by some of the most popular trainers in the recruiting and staffing industry on the second Tuesday or Wednesday of every month. If you register for a live webinar and can not attend, we record the session so that you can access it at a later date. These recorded versions are then posted on our website as free online recruitment training courses in the Top Echelon Recruiter Training Library.

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment marketplace has been a progression, much like the spread of the virus throughout the world population at large.

As such, it was only a matter of time before employers took steps to deal with the virus. This is especially the case in regards to face-to-face interviews. In order to shed some light on what employers have been doing, we posed a poll question to Top Echelon Network members.

That question was as follows:

What do you think will happen to the economy as a result of COVID-19?

The choice of answers that we provided is listed below, along with the percentage of split network recruiters that selected each one:

• There will be no recession; we’ll bounce back before that happens. — 9.0%
• There will be a short recession with a rapid recovery. — 43.6%
• There will be a garden variety recession. — 20.5%
• Get ready for the second Great Recession. — 19.2%
• Get ready for the second Great Depression. — 2.6%
• You can stick your poll question, I don’t want to think about it. — 5.1%

Summary:

Far and away, the most popular answer among Network members was “There will be a short recession with a rapid recovery.” That answer garnered nearly half of the responses (43.6%).

On the other hand, nearly the same number of recruiters believe that there “will be a garden variety recession” (20.5%) and that we should get “ready for the second Great Recession” (19.2%).

Predictably, the answers start to fall off from there. However, it should be noted that almost one-in-10 recruiters believes that there will be no recession and that we’ll bounce back before that happens.

Analysis and Conclusion:

The funny thing about the COVID-19 pandemic is that opinions about it change on an almost daily basis. In other words, this answers to this poll question are between one and two weeks old. As a result, if we asked Network recruiters the exact same question today, their answers may very well be different.

How would they be different? Well, if one had to venture a guess, I would say there would be more people predicting a garden variety recession as opposed to a short recession with a rapid recovery. But that’s just my guess. I’m certainly not a soothsayer.

Perhaps we’ll revisit the answers to this poll question later this year. Then we’ll be better able to assess the Network’s prognostication prowess as a whole.

If you have questions about your Top Echelon recruiting network membership, please contact Director of Network Operations Drea Codispoti, CPC/CERS.

You can do so by calling 330.455.1433, x156 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.

We’re pleased to present the recruiting agencies that joined Top Echelon Network as new members during the month of March!

As you can see below, a total of 13 agencies joined our recruiting network last month.

We run the names of recruiting agencies applying for membership in the Members’ Area of the Top Echelon website. We list the names of new Network agencies, as well.

However, we also list our new members in The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog. This list typically includes the name of the agency, the join date of the agency, the geographic location of the agency, and the agency’s specialties. These agencies work in a variety of industries and niches.

So I’d like to take this moment to congratulate the agencies listed below. I also welcome them to the membership and look forward to helping them make splits in the Network!

If you have any questions about reaching out to new members or about your split recruiting membership in general, please contact me. My contact information is listed at the end of this blog post.

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New Member Agencies — March 2020:

CORPORATE SEARCH, INC.
Join Date: March 3
Location: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Industries: Electrical, Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing, Purchasing, and Communications

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44 B SQUARED
Join Date: March 5
Location: Overland Park, Kansas
Industries: Technology and Engineering

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FLEMING TECHNICAL RESOURCES
Join Date: March 10
Location: Waukee, Iowa
Industries: Information Technology

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SOURCING PROFESSIONALS, INC.
Join Date: March 16
Location: Fairhope, Alabama
Industries: Sales, Engineering, Information Technology, and Manufacturing

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HATTERAS CAPITAL ADVISORS
Join Date: March 18
Location: Hendersonville, North Carolina
Industries: Hospitality, Healthcare, Legal, and Construction

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ASTUTE SEARCH
Join Date: March 23
Location: North White Plains, New York
Industries: Generalist

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HALLIE’S MEDICAL STAFFING
Join Date: March 25
Location: Townsend, Delaware
Industries: Medical Staffing

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TBCN, INC.
Join Date: March 26
Location: Suwanee, Georgia
Industries: Accounting, Finance, Legal, Human Resources, Technology, and Office Support & Management

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TOP TALENT SEARCH, LLC
Join Date: March 26
Location: Gilbert, Arizona
Industries: Generalist

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YANNA BEE, LLC
Join Date: March 30
Location: Holland, Pennsylvania
Industries: Legal, Real Estate, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Engineering, Marketing & Public Relations, and Healthcare

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BENTLEY JACOBS
Join Date: March 31
Location: East Aurora, New York
Industries: Generalist

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PROSOURCE IT
Join Date: March 31
Location: Miami Lakes, Florida
Industries: Information Technology

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YELLOW TREE EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Join Date: March 31
Location: Waconia, Minnesota
Industries: Commercial Software, Healthcare, Retail & Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Construction, and Professional Services

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It doesn’t matter if you’re a newer Network recruiter or an established member. If you want help making split placements with other Top Echelon Network members, then I encourage you to contact me.

You can do so by calling 330.455.1433, x156 or by sending an email to drea@topechelon.com.