After I circulated this article to the people working with me at zenPeak, it only took a few minutes for the excited comments to come back to me.
The zenPeak approach is to “Internalize Candidates“ It’s a fundamental part of our process and when you do it… everything gets easier.
Simple!
We have low fees by using a system that is efficient and because typically, we don’t work on recruiting engagements that we don’t get paid for.
I can’t imagine working for weeks on a recruiting assignment on speculation; rushing to send in the resumes of Candidates I may not have even met or fully screened because the focus is on getting the placement, not recruiting a peak performer.
Not only that – our system is front-loaded and high-compliance, so Clients don’t waste their time on reviewing all those unscreened resumes.
Here is one of our secrets… because we don’t work on assignments we don’t get paid for, and we are super efficient (while still high-compliance), our fees are as low as 10%
Call us if you are looking to hire really good people. If you are tired of being disappointed with the people you hire, or paying ridiculous high fees to Recruiters, then…. consider a different approach where we do the work and you save time and money.
Frank Abrams 416 733-3001
unemployment by gender
Suze Orman shared some great insights on CNN last night about how men differ from women in looking for work. Male unemployment is significantly higher, and she attributes a few reasons.
(1) men look for a new job at their old salary level – women will take lower paying jobs to earn money
(2) women are paid less and thus employers save money by hiring women, and
(3) men turn job hunting into a full-time effort, or take time off, rather than settle for a lower paying job like women
The conventional modern wisdom was that you would have many jobs in your career vs. having a job for life. It looks like that is changing for men and women.The new reality is men may go from job to contract to partnership to contract to business to job to job. Today, don’t bet on one job after another.
Imagine going to an interview with loads of experience (most of which is quickly outdated) competing with someone younger and cheaper.
You will likely strike out.
Why? The interviewer knows that you will be chronically unhappy at a fraction of your previous pay. The person interviewing you is likely to be closer in age to the younger and cheaper candidates. Union and Government jobs may be an exception.
So what is the answer?
“Mancession.” The term may spur a few smiles and snickers, but for thousands of men, it is no laughing matter. For the first time in economic history, the male unemployment rate has surpassed the female unemployment rate. The December 2008 unemployment rate for men was 7.9 percent, versus 6.4 percent for women. The U.S. economy lost 2.956 million jobs in the last year, and a full 82 percent of pink slips have been handed to male workers. This translates to more than two million unemployed men in America compared to about 460,000 jobless women. The worse news for men is that the gap in jobless rates between men and women has been increasing for the last eight months and may continue to do so. – Bright Horizons
