By Tony Restell Here in the UK, we’ve been in a recruitment slump for circa 4 years. Every month, the number of permanent placements has declined month on month. My understanding from US-based recruiters is that the situation isn’t drastically better there. So, how should you market a recruitment agency in a slump? A recruitment …
“When can you start?” Four words, months of effort, and one very common mistake: treating the offer as the finish line. It isn’t. It’s the starting gun on the riskiest 90 days of your career — a stretch where the goodwill you earned in interviews is spent fast, your reputation gets set before you’ve done …
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, explains the importance of putting contact information on your resume. Unlocking Your Job Search with Simple Hacks There’s been an annoying trend in resume writing that people have been using. I want to see if I can help put …
By Tony Restell Imagine this scenario for a minute. Your marketing team celebrate, because a post takes off and reaches 50,000 people. It attracts a torrent of comments, a huge number of shares and a healthy rise in followers. Yet the sales team remain unexcited, becase no worthwhile enquiries result from all this visibility. That …
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter One thing should be clear to you–if you’re interviewing for a role in the C Suite, you need to do work in advance of the interview. Here are 9 questions to prepare to answer in advance of your interview. 00:00 Introduction01:05 The questions01:53 Summary02:11 Outro How Recruiters Steal …
By Social-Hire For founders, partners, and senior leaders in B2B firms and professional services, social media can often feel like a black box. You invest time, brief your marketing team, and publish thought leadership pieces, yet weeks tick by without a single enquiry coming through – let alone a contract being signed. Inevitably, the critical …
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter The Graduate School of Business at Stanford published a study that concluded those more likely to oppose racism and sexism are more likely to maintain ageism as acceptable because they believe that older people block their way to advancement. The study concludes, “equality for all may only mean …
By Tony Restell A diary filled with meetings is not a pipeline if the people attending lack budget, urgency or any realistic reason to buy. That is the central risk with outsourced B2B appointment setting: it can give a business more sales activity, but only a properly managed programme creates the qualified conversations that lead …
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter The job market is crowded and loud. AI tools now let almost anyone write a smooth resume or cover letter in seconds. Because of this, company inboxes and Applicant Tracking Systems are full of generic applications that look the same. Simply sending a basic text resume into a …
By Social-Hire For founders, partners, and senior leaders in B2B professional services and technology firms, relying solely on a handful of rainmakers to drive new client acquisition is a risky bottleneck. When business growth depends entirely on a handful of people, scaling hits a ceiling. Yet, asking your wider team to get involved in LinkedIn …