How to Identify a Great Search FirmWritten by Steve Hall, Certified Personnel Consultant
How to Identify a Great Search FirmQ & A Q: Are people sometimes cautious of ‘headhunters’? A. Yes. However industry has evolved over last decade and steadily gained more respect. Now recruiters go to same lengths that other professionals do to be certified by obtaining a Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC) designation. Q: Is it appropriate to approach a professional recruiter or should recruiter pursue job seeker? A: It is very common for both to occur. Our search firm, FGP International (Find Great People) has been building its own proprietary database of candidates and contacts for nearly 22 years. This has been done by active contact on our part as well as by referrals from those who respect our approach. If you contact a firm directly you need to do your homework before simply sending a resume. We are not “all alike”. Q: Which is best? Contingency or Retained? A: Both types have merit. A Retained search firm is paid in advance and will typically be dealing with Executive and Senior level officials. Searches where base salary start in mid 100k area and exceed 300k. Contingency firms will work mostly on searches below those salary levels. Contingency firms are routinely paid only if person they present is hired by company. Each have their place. Q: Say you are a candidate for a position. What is next step after this? A: After a recruiter presents your background to a potential employer, he or she should contact you frequently to keep you aware of where you are in interview process. Routine cooperation and feedback is expected from company, and individual seeking a position. Once client company desires to proceed with an interview recruiter would facilitate interview process. Q: How do you know a search firm is right for you? A: Investigate firm to see if it is specialized in any industries or any particular niches. It is always best to contact search firm that coincides with your area of professional interest. Once you begin working with a search firm, ask yourself these questions. How cooperative is search firm with you? Will they give you feedback, and will they give it to you in a timely manner? Make a phone call first before sending a resume. Ask them to walk you through their standard approach of placement process.
| | Success, Elbow Grease And A Little LuckWritten by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW
Publishing Guidelines: You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as resource box is included with a live link to my site. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated. ***********************************************************Title: SUCCESS, ELBOW GREASE AND A LITTLE LUCK Author: Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW Email: mailto:editor@overcoming-depression.com copyright: by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW Web Address: http://www.Overcoming-Depression.com Word Count: 670 Category: Success SUCCESS, ELBOW GREASE AND A LITTLE LUCK I like to think that as a professional psychotherapist & coach, space in which I work in my office is a smaller reflection of our much larger culture here in USA. Let me explain. Our culture is constantly on move towards faster, more convenient ways of doing things. I'm caught up in this moving current as much as next person. For example, when I began writing and putting up websites, year was 1998. I had a pentium 120 with 24 megabyte of ram and a 2400 bps modem. As I write this article I am using a superfast AMD chip computer with 1 gig of ram and a blazing fast cable modem connection to internet. I love it! The internet connection alone has saved me hundreds of hours in my online work. But notice last word I used in previous paragraph -- "work." I put in a minimum of 10 hours per week for my online work alone. My wife edits my articles, so we'll see how accurate I am when she reads my last statement. She often says I spend much more time than that. ;-) I enjoy both new creations that make life easier, as well as researching and writing how-to articles to help people move towards success in their lives. Last week, during one of my sessions, a client was complaining that "nothing was working." She asked why there weren't any guarantees and was extremely frustrated that her doctor had not found correct medication for her illness. The psychotherapy and medical field is not an exact science. .. yet. So, I most definitely empathized with how she was feeling. On other hand, I asked her how many specific depression recovery tools she had learned about while she was in treatment. She couldn't recall exactly, so we worked together and came up with at least 12 different, proven skills she'd been taught to fight depression.
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