With Priority Search, you get the best of both worlds. It’s a middle ground between expensive, retained search, and bargain, contingent search. Priority offers you the benefits of retained search with a more affordable investment. We know that budgets are reduced and purse straps are pulled and it makes sense for us to offer a win win solution for us and you, the client. To engage Small World in a Priority Search, you make an initial, smaller, investment and the remainder is not due until after the new employee starts.

We don’t love contingent, you don’t love retained, let’s meet in the middle.

Over these past few months, I’ve heard from many clients that they need to make a hire but can not afford (or aren’t allowed due to budget restraints) to use an outside recruiter for the search. Cost savings and making wise financial choices is a focus for all companies right now. The problem is that they don’t have the talent internally who can find the people that the hiring managers need for the job. If their talent acquisition team and or HR department had all of the skills, connections, market insight, etc. then they probably wouldn’t be using an external recruitment firm in the first place. Right?

As someone who looks at resumes all day, every day, it is strange to think of a world without them. I think that day is coming sooner than we think.

Making a bad hire can cost a lot of time and money which are two things that companies can never afford to lose.  What’s worse is that you delay hiring the person that you really needed for your business in the first place.

Your wife needs brain surgery and today is the big day.  Don’t worry, the hospital where you are scheduled just used their local IT Recruiter to fill the most recent brain surgeon position.  

Why are we all so bad at one of the most important aspects of our career, salary negotiations?

No matter how much we prepare for an interview, this is the point where we all fumble the ball.  It reminds me a lot of buying a new car.