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The Power of VISION in Your Recruiting Firm From the California Staffing Professionals Owner's Retreat

   I had the privilege of speaking at the California Staffing Professionals Owner's Retreat 9/25 and 9/26 in front of a group of recruiting professionals commited to growing their firms.  The theme of the meeting and most of the speakers was HOW to start the process of rebuilding their firms and the power of a defined specific vision to get them their.

 Patricia Drain opened the recruiting conference stressing the need for owners to work ON their business more instead of working primarily IN their business.  Those that work primarily IN their business don't have a business they have a J-O-B! 

She also stressed the need to work with the "end in mind" and to create multiple streams of income such as coaching programs and/or teleseminars for candidates that we can't help.  

My presentation similarly stressed one of "Deadly Sins" recruiting firm owners make is that they do not have a specific and strategic vision of where they are taking their firms in 12, 24, and 36 months from now.  Coming out of a recession is a GREAT opportunity to get it "right". 

The 4 Key Strategies I discussed were:

Recruiters: Highlights from the Recruiting Animal Radio Show

Today I was priviledged to be the guest of The Recruiting Animal's Blog radio show with his panel which consisted partly of Maureen Sharib, Bill Boorman, Jerry Albright, Carl Chapman and some other erudites in the recruiting industry.

If you have never listened to his show, Animal is a non-profane Howard Stern type shock jock for the recruiting industry.  I find myself laughing out loud on every show!  You can listen to his past shows on the above link or tune in on the web Wednesday's at Noon eastern time.

We had an in-depth discussion on ways to succeed in a down economy.  You can listen or download the entire one hour show right here.  Animal asked a bunch of questions from articles in this very blog. 

Here are some of the summary points that most of the panel seemed to agree with (in no particular order):