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Fire Your Recruiter!™


Looking For A New Job Opportunity Or Career Change?

If you're like most of us, when you're looking for a new job or career opportunity, one of the first things you immediately think about is contacting a recruiter, executive search consultant or headhunter. 

Perhaps you're even working with one now.

And why not?  It seems like the most logical, efficient and effective way to go, doesn't it? After all, a recruiter has "all the answers", "tons of experience" and knows the industry like nobody's business: The client, the hiring manager and they do this for a living -- best of all, it won't cost you a thing.  
Zip. Nada. Zilch.

Or will it?

What possibly could go wrong? Well, a lot actually.  
The recruiting and job search industry is notoriously opaque and riddled with informational asymmetries.

It's also full of traps and pitfalls that can cost you dearly.
Dearly in terms of job opportunities, job offers, lower starting salaries and worst of all, even your reputation. 

Until now.
Fire Your Recruiter!™
Fire Your Recruiter!™
We'll show you how to navigate the murky and often uncharted waters so that you can expertly select, manage and own your recruiter, or GoDirect ™  yourself or use a blended approach. Whatever feels right for you and your situation.



Part I: (How To Select, Manage & Own Your Recruiter)
  • How recruiters and the recruiting world would work if the world were perfect and life were fair.
  • How recruiters and the recruiting world actually operate.
  • The key difference and confusing similarities between agency recruiters and in-house recruiters.
  • The intricate and somewhat scary details of how recruiters (their organizations and their peers) work and what it means to you.
  • How to initiate contact with a recruiter from a position of power.
  • How to get a recruiter to come to you.
  • Understanding and using Reverse Recruiting.  
  • The very first thing you should do when a recruiter contacts you.
  • Understanding Recruiter Lock-in.
  • Metric Madness and how it can kill your chances or career opportunity.
  • The Mythical Recruiter's"Value-Add".
  • Dangers of market over-exposure. 
  • The role, value and danger of a "go-between".
  • Dangers and risks of being "outed":.
  • Why your recruiter's co-workers are hoping you don't get an offer and how they're working to sabotage you!
  • How to know if your recruiter has "crossed the line" and what to do about it.
  • How to fire your recruiter! (our favorite section)
  • And much more!
Part II: (Do It Yourself Recruiting)
  • Why this gives you the most control.
  • The pros and cons of DIY Recruiting.
  • The go between.
  • The softener.
  • How to identify the hiring authority.
  • How to approach the hiring authority and exactly what to say and not say.
  • Landing a "job" interview.
  • Landing an information interview.
  • Parlaying the information interview into a job interview.
  • Scripts and strategies: on the phone, via email, using LinkedIn and social media.
  • And much more!

Part III: (Using A Blended Approach)
  • What is the blended approach?
  • When does it make sense?
  • When is it a bad idea?
  • How to make it work.
  • How to know when it is not working.
  • Reconciling using a recruiter and being your own recruiter (DIY Recruiting).
  • And much more!


High-Impact Career & Work Transitions (By SiliconEdge)

Have you found yourself  laid-off, outplaced or "transitioned" out of your current position or company?

If so, why not look into having your company sponsor you to take SiliconEdge's High-Impact Career & Work Transitions Training in lieu of the training and outplacement services they may offer you. 

This is very similar to our Fire Your Recruiter!™ training except that it will meet corporate requirements for outplacement and Workforce Transition training and it performance-wise it will literally blow the doors off "standard" outplacement or workforce transitions services.

Learn More: High-Impact Career & Work Transitions Training (by SiliconEdge)





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