How to Identify a Great Search Firm

Written by Steve Hall, Certified Personnel Consultant


How to Identify a Great Search Firm

Q & A

Q: Are people sometimes cautious of ‘headhunters’? A. Yes. Howeverrepparttar industry has evolved overrepparttar 130479 last decade and steadily gained more respect. Now recruiters go torepparttar 130480 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 shouldrepparttar 130481 recruiter pursuerepparttar 130482 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 whererepparttar 130483 base salary start inrepparttar 130484 mid 100k area and exceed 300k. Contingency firms will work mostly on searches below those salary levels. Contingency firms are routinely paid only ifrepparttar 130485 person they present is hired byrepparttar 130486 company. Each have their place.

Q: Say you are a candidate for a position. What isrepparttar 130487 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 inrepparttar 130488 interview process. Routine cooperation and feedback is expected fromrepparttar 130489 company, andrepparttar 130490 individual seeking a position. Oncerepparttar 130491 client company desires to proceed with an interviewrepparttar 130492 recruiter would facilitaterepparttar 130493 interview process.

Q: How do you know a search firm is right for you? A: Investigaterepparttar 130494 firm to see if it is specialized in any industries or any particular niches. It is always best to contactrepparttar 130495 search firm that coincides with your area of professional interest. Once you begin working with a search firm, ask yourself these questions. How cooperative isrepparttar 130496 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 ofrepparttar 130497 placement process.

Success, Elbow Grease And A Little Luck

Written by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW


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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,repparttar 130477 space in which I work in my office is a smaller reflection of our much larger culture here inrepparttar 130478 USA.

Let me explain. Our culture is constantly onrepparttar 130479 move towards faster, more convenient ways of doing things. I'm caught up in this moving current as much asrepparttar 130480 next person. For example, when I began writing and putting up websites, repparttar 130481 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 torepparttar 130482 internet. I love it! The internet connection alone has saved me hundreds of hours in my online work.

But noticerepparttar 130483 last word I used inrepparttar 130484 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 bothrepparttar 130485 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 foundrepparttar 130486 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. Onrepparttar 130487 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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