One of the pleasures of editing a newsletter is the communication I have with our readers. Agree or disagree, I learn as much from these interactions as I hope you learn from The Fordyce Letter. Having been in this business since 1959, I’ve seen a lot of changes, made a lot of friends and had [...]
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I just heard one of the dumbest things ever from a long time practitioner who has very successfully worked in a very specialized niche for over two decades. This reader’s major client (several very high level searches every year for over a decade with this Fortune 50 company), recommended his firm to one of their outside [...]
Thank God the election is finally over. Two years of agonizing nonsense is finally in the past. Now, of course, we’ll have to endure the continual speculation for the 2008 election. Hoo boy! The day after the election the stock market soared, oil prices dropped and, according to our readers, the hiring market improved significantly. Will [...]
Last month, we presented a number of alternative ways to charge for services rendered to search/placement clients. Here are several more ways to earn dollars from client companies. Although every company’s needs are different, it appears that almost all employers are susceptible prospects for the right presentation to outsource all or a part of the hiring [...]
Over the past few weeks, in conjunction with our Consultant Earnings Survey (TFL, 3/03), I have had the privilege of speaking with several dozen of the industry’s old-timers. These are the graybeards who have been around for more than a couple of decades and have weathered one or more previous economic downturns.These are the folks [...]
Does it get any nuttier than this? A long time reader tells us that one of his client companies was looking to recalibrate their preferred recruiter list for the next two years so they decided to have an on-line auction for those recruiters already on their approved vendor list. Like a reverse eBay operation, they [...]
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