Some clients are written off as unbearably difficult to deal with. But in the video below, Alan Fluhrer, who specializes in energy, engineering, finance, and technology recruiting, says that sometimes there’s more to an annoying client than meets the eye.
Rethinking Your Worst Clients
February 17th, 2010
Tech companies are hiring, but not “full throttle,” according to a Boyden’s rundown of various industries and their executive hiring plans around the world. Financial services firms are “cautiously optimistic.” Demand for execs in life sciences is increasing. Retail companies are looking for people who can integrate online and offline sales. Energy companies worldwide are searching [...]
Pharma’s the hottest industry worldwide, according to a Feb. 1 survey from Antal, in partnership with SearchPath International. What’s Hot In order, these sectors have the the highest levels of recruitment at the professional and managerial level 1) Pharmaceuticals; 2) Manufacturing; 3) Engineering; 4) IT software; and 5) [...]
Good news for laid-off employees comes today from Right Management, which finds that only 10% of employers say they don’t rehire past employees. It also found that 18% of laid-off workers are rehired by their former employer. Employers cited the following as their top reason for the rehires: 37% – Familiarity with the job 33% – Understanding [...]
Good to see some not-too-bad news: Korn/Ferry is up pretty sharply (8%) as the market opens. The company says: -Things are stabilizing but the future economy and labor markets are up in the air -Executive searches opened are down 30% (1,352 vs. 1,920) -Average fee per engagement is down 16% More details here.
From Korn/Ferry’s Senior Management
August 5th, 2009
Some short notes from a conversation I just had with Robert Damon, president, North America, for Korn/Ferry: “Things are better today than they were yesterday,†Damon says. The strongest area: Mid-market companies, in all industries, bringing in about $50 million to $2 billion. That’s because, he says, they lack bench strength, are lean, and have held [...]
Salary Offers They Can’t Refuse
July 8th, 2009
How much money, above what an employee’s currently making, does it take to get them to switch jobs? It depends, of course. (And of course, it’s not all about money.) But as part of its 2009 Employee Job Satisfaction report, SHRM (the big association of HR people) asked employees what percentage salary increase would motivate them to [...]
Even in the uber-cyclical recruiting business, where search firms like Heidrick & Struggles are taking their names literally, there’s no time like the present, apparently. That is the case at least for Jeff Perkins. He had been managing the corporate recruiting team at Invista, a subsidiary of Koch. His team went from 13 people to five. [...]
Lean Staffing
August 6th, 2008
A Minnesota recruiting company is slimming down and is reportedly more productive. Its PR person Erin Wombacher tells me she lost 10 pounds in three months and her energy level is up.
Kelly Flop
July 22nd, 2008
Some highlights (mainly lowlights, actually) from Kelly Services’ CEO Carl Camden today; thanks to Seeking Alpha for help. Kelly’s earnings were lower than expected. “The second quarter was a rough one. Analyst’s reports and media have well documented the economic challenges faced by our industry and the global economy. Overall demand for labor in the U.S., [...]
8 Ways to Control the Hiring Process
July 21st, 2008
Get these eight ducks in a row — or miss out on a placement.
Speaking in Vegas
July 21st, 2008
We’re starting to think about speakers for next year’s Fordyce Forum (even though June 10-12, 2009 seems awfully futuristic). Let me know if you are interested in proposing a presentation, or if you know of someone who’d be great. We’re headed back to Las Vegas — hotel to be determined. The emphasis is still on [...]
Insurance on Candidates
July 17th, 2008
I noticed this company ExecuSure today, which acts as sort of insurance policy for recruiting. As I understand it, if a recruiter places a candidate and that candidate quits after 2-3 months, ExecuSure refunds the employer the recruiting fee. The company says that this is “the first 12-month, money-back guarantee ever offered on recruitment fees [...]
What People Are Searching for on Google
July 11th, 2008
Cool stuff — you can see how many people are searching Google for various jobs.
Video’s Going Up From the Fordyce Forum …
June 8th, 2008
… check it out on the Forum site.
Recruiter 1, Wells Fargo 0
June 6th, 2008
An anti-recruiting motion is denied.
The Fordyce Forum and the Fordyce Letter
June 5th, 2008
If you’re here in Vegas, hope you’re having a good time and are getting useful information. I’m bouncing back and forth between Frank’s presentation and Michael’s presentation at the moment. If you’re here at the Flamingo and you’d like to get more involved in Fordyce … whether it be writing for the Letter, speaking next year, [...]
SearchPath going public. The company says it is “the nation’s fast-growing talent acquisition professional services firm, with more than 60 offices opened in its first 30 months.”
More from NAER
April 24th, 2008
Darth Vader didn’t come up this afternon at NAER but these things did … Joe McCool, amped about his new book, jokes that specialist recruiters are in such demand nowadays that a generalist recruiter should call themselves a “multispecialist” … McCool also has some interesting stuff (which he goes into more detail about in the book) [...]
Finding Darth Vader
April 24th, 2008
Chris Murdock, executive sourcer & knowledge manager, Yahoo!, shared some of his thoughts on popular sourcing tools today at the NAER conference in Redondo Beach (a good place for a weekend afternoon but a pain in the kiester to get to on a work day). ZoomInfo: Murdock notes that he has seen Darth Vader listed as [...]
Addison buys HireSynergy.
For its 25th anniversary, Express does its part to banish the word “personnel” from the business lexicon.
It was a bad day for Spherion and its stock, which was down a sharp 11% Thursday. Pessimists may see it as a sign of a bad recession; optimists (me) are saying, “wait a second, it’s still doing well over half a billion dollars in revenue in three months.” We’ll know more on the 29th.
The search giant is running a new campaign for itself, called “The Art & Science of Talent.” Meanwhile, it redid its website in keeping with the new theme. Korn/Ferry’s emphasizing what most every HR/recruiting/talent/OD/related consulting company and their brother are emphasizing … that they handle the full-life cycle of talent acquisition and talent management — they don’t just [...]
Alan Lee, who has been involved in recruiting (and downsizing) at Coca-Cola and NationsBank, and Gregg McCormick, a Gartner VP, share how their experiences in tough economic times have shaped their views on the use of contract recruiters vs. full-time recruiters. Lee: In the downsizing at The Coca-Cola Company, we did have some contract recruiters on our [...]
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