Revisiting the Cave...

I purposefully have held out from writing anything new with the intent in being able to see how 2010 has started. So far and in short, 2010 seems to be opening up well. Here's why:

• We moved into our new office building built specifically for our unique recruiting practice. It's offered a optimism among our team that hasn't been felt for some time and as such, productivity is up.
  
• We've been more focused as a recruiting firm. Less distractions that come from a variety of sources--recruiting or otherwise.
  
• We're collaborating more and working better amongst our team better.
• More jobs are being worked on. We haven't had this many jobs to work on since early 2008.
• More placements are being made. We're a contingency and retained search firm and our placement ratio is up which means we're working with good candidates and companies that know how to hire.
  
• Bottom line: revenue is up.
  

As the first quarter draws to a close I look back on my comments on the "Allegory of the Cave" that I made in December. I commented that being interactive was going to be the hall mark of 2010 and the future of business and that by doing this people and business would free themselves from the cave.

The first three months at our firm has been about doing the above--being connected with others, both candidates and companies, and by so doing we have been in touch with what is really going on in the recruiting world for our industry. And as time has moved along our vision has adjusted to what 2010 really is going to look like.

Although the vision might still be bit hazy we are optimistic and looking forward to working with similarly positive people. If you have an opinion on the state of 2010, please feel free to leave us your comments.

If not, please let us know what we can do to help you and your family do to make 2010 a brighter and more optimistic year.

Venator 2K10 Markdown

Hope you all a great holiday and have started the New Year off right!

We started our first marketing campaign for the New Year: the 2K10 Markdown. It's a bit of a tongue-in-cheek play on recruiters being like used car salesmen and how we are viewed as less than savory.

Despite the fact that we know we provide a valuable and important service to companies, there are many recruiters that have given our profession a bit of a black eye. My gut feeling is that those recruiters haven't survived the past 18 months of a recruiting down turn. They're probably off selling used cars or something.

With this new campaign we want to offer our current and future clients unheard of flat recruiting fees for the month of January. It might be a bit cheesy, but we thought it was memorable and hopefully shows we are committed to our clients needs and their financial costs per hire.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call us.

Looking forward to a stronger 2010 and we hope this new program will help our clients get their new hiring started off on the right foot.