Who’s going to operate?

There are Hiring Managers in your market who have a need for your services right now… Granted, some of them don’t even know you exist. But even the ones that do know you exist… They don’t want to speak to you, and even if they do speak to you, they don’t want to pay your…

Continue Reading →

Change one and you’ll change the other

Heard a quote today that I thought I’d share with ya… “Our self-image and self-habits tend to work hand in hand… Change one and you’ll change the other” Read that again and let it sink… Truer words have never been said, and if you look closely at your day, your activities and yourself, the evidence…

Continue Reading →

Is now the right time?

Here’s a question you need to answer when looking for ways to grow your Recruitment/Search Business… Is now the right time to optimise or is now the right time to scale? Just to explain the two… Optimisation = How to do get better results with the current assets I have Scale = How do I…

Continue Reading →

Work to be done

Good markets mask a lot of fundamental problems in the business of Recruitment and Search Business Owners… I’ve seen it more and more recently… “Things are going great, we have more clients than we can handle” They get lulled into a false sense of security because of how things are, they forget how things were……

Continue Reading →

Your businesses biggest asset…

Do you know what the biggest asset in your Recruitment/Search Business is? It’s not your clients… It’s not your candidates… It’s not your team… It’s you… All the others are very important… But none more important than you as the owner and CEO… Your business should be built to serve you and the lifestyle you…

Continue Reading →

Your business is a reflection of you

Listen to this, Your business is a reflection of you… It works as a mirror for all the things that are going on either externally in your personal life or internally (the way you think)… And if you look closely at your business right now, you’ll see examples of this screaming back at you… Lack…

Continue Reading →

Certainty = predictable growth for recruiters

When it comes to attracting new clients, most Recruitment and Search Firm Owners engage in a series of random tactics but lack any real strategy. There’s nothing wrong with tactics. A series of thought out, working and reliable tactics should form part of your overall strategy. But being randomly tactical and relying on luck or…

Continue Reading →

5 truths Recruiters need to hear

Five truths you need to understand about marketing your Recruitment or Search services… Your clients and potential clients are bombarded by communication from you, your competitors and countless other competing businesses every single day Most communication that is designed to grab the attention of your potential clients fails miserably and gets ignored… Communication about you…

Continue Reading →

How to “achieve” mediocre results

Staying in your comfort zone KILLS growth in your Recruitment or Search Business… Although most the Recruitment and Search Business Owners I speak to know this intellectually… Very few really “GET” it! They’ll say they want growth… Better clients… Higher fees… More freedom… Higher profits and all that comes with it…. BUT they’ll fight like…

Continue Reading →

You’re going to fail and mess things up

One of the biggest things that hold Recruitment and Search Business Owners back, keeps them stuck and stops them growing is missing the lessons in their failures… You’re going to have bad days, weeks, months etc… You’re going to fail and mess things up… You’re going to get things wrong, things aren’t going to go…

Continue Reading →

Lessons For Recruiters from the Fishing Community

Some traditional fishing villages persist in ways that have changed very little from earlier times… For a fishing village, the whole local economy is dependent on catching fish and harvesting seafood… Quite simply… If there is no fishing, there is no money. When the Fishermen cannot go out to sea, they mend their nets, do maintenance work…

Continue Reading →