Dan Parsons

Ready to expand your TA team? Are you considering contract or perm, or maybe an embedded solution? Connect with TA4TA and we can help you curate the right opportunity for the market - and we don’t charge a fee. We have seen lots of false starts recently, so why not arrange a 15 minute call or drop us a note to bounce some ideas around. Even to confirm you are on the right path, or have the right salary range. TA4TA was created because TA professionals often receive the worst candidate experience - which is ironic as they dedicate their careers to helping candidates and organisations promote their brand. It’s time to give a little back, and support TA Pro’s with an experience they deserve. If you want to meet in person, come and see us at 🎪 RecFest 🎪 , or book in a quick call using the link in the comments. #TA4TA #RecFestUK #TalentAcquisition #Careers #CandidateExperience

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Cloudcat Recruitment's series on common mistakes made by SDRs continues. Every mistake listed is one to keep in mind, as they have been suggest by highly successful SDRs and Sales Leaders who I have spoken to over the last few years. Using AI is great, and mastering its usage makes you extremely efficient. The majority of my network is involved in selling or utilising artificial intelligence! But using it blindly is akin to trying to sell to a prospect in a monotonous, under-researched and dry tone. Over-use and brazen use of AI messaging can come across as lazy, unoriginal and most importantly: It does not signify that the seller is a solution-led individual, who wishes to solve a problem. #SDR #salesdevelopmentrepresentative #artificialintelligence

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We’re hiring SDRs. If you’re a recruiter looking for a change, this might be for you. You’ll be sparking curiosity and starting conversations with recruitment and staffing businesses across the UK and US. Not with templates and scripts (okay, maybe some), but with authenticity, curiosity, and a bit of courage. How? Any way that works: ➽ Phone ➽ Video ➽  Voice Note ➽  Email ➽  Smoke Signals You’ll report to Ollie Bates - legend in the SDR game. Sometimes he “hits target”, often he’s obliterating it. He’ll be your mentor, coach, and occasional co-conspirator. You’ll also be kitted out with borderline ridiculous tech enablement. So, no fluff, no wasting time - just tools to help you focus on smashing it. OTE is 57.5k What You’ll Bring: ➽  A recruiter’s edge: You know how agencies work, how recruiters think ➽  A relentless drive: You don’t stop at “good enough.” ➽  Natural gravitas:   When you talk, people generally listen. ➽  Insatiable curiosity: You ask better questions because you genuinely care about the answers. This isn’t for everyone. If you want easy, predictable or boring, this isn’t it. But if you’re ready to take what you already know and apply it in a way that excites you, we’d love to hear from you. Recruiters who’ve made the leap into this role rarely look back. Will you be one of them? Find me. Apply. Let’s talk. Ps. If it’s not for you please give the post a like to share far and wide. Cheers!

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🚀 From Seed to Series A: Supercharge Your Growth in UK Rec Tech Are you a UK Rec Tech startup aiming to scale from seed funding to Series A? The journey is exciting but comes with its challenges. With the right strategies, you can accelerate growth and stand out in a competitive market. Our latest ThinkinCircles I Recruitment Marketing article explores: ✨ Effective tactics to scale successfully ✨ How to position your brand as a leader in the industry ✨ Tips for attracting both investors and customers Whether you’re in the early stages of growth or gearing up for your next funding round, this guide is packed with actionable insights to help you thrive. Read the full article here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eQ3zW6t3 #RecTech #UKStartups #GrowthStrategies #SeriesA #StartupSuccess

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Feeling Ghosted by Recruiters? ‍👻 Don't let your applications disappear into the void... Our blog post unlocks the secrets to standing out and landing your dream job in the competitive UK market. Learn how to craft a compelling application, showcase your value proposition, and build a strong network amongst a number of great tips... Click the link below to level up your job search: https://bit.ly/4f0HeTR

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May 2022 - Town Hall. 'Recruitment 1.0' is dead. Recruitment 1.0. 1️⃣ High volume, low skilled - high hassle, low value, low loyalty. 1️⃣ Increasingly complex regulatory landscape (more so with UK Employment Rights Bill coming down the track). 1️⃣ Resource hungry - forcing the business's hand on overheads, non-value add costs. Lose/lose/lose dynamics: 👎🏼 Lose for Workers - poor quality jobs, with transactional hiring companies that demand everything - give little. 👎🏼 Lose for employers - unable to attract productive, safe, coachable, high calibre people - aligned on values. 👎🏼 Lose for 1.0 recruiters - diminishing return, 24/7 headache, pollutes the brand, unsustainable race to the bottom. There is a need to pivot and innovate to Recruitment 2.0 - specifically: 🦾 Redefine our target market sweetspot; high skilled, high tech, high pay, destination clients in sustainable sectors. 🔁 Reform or replace 1.0 clients. 🤹🏽 Specialise vs generalise. 🏅Compete and be credible further up the skills/expertise value stream. 💶 Invest to grow our healthcare, executive and consultancy businesses. 🧠 Reimagine our service impact strategy - online, inhouse, onsite, strategic alliances, international presence/reach. 🤝 Foster Meaningful Partnerships only. 🚀 Upskill our people. 🤖 Embrace tech/AI - data/research driven BD to de-skill the sales function/process. Given our Northern Powerhouse, Made in Yorkshire DNA - YETi is now the home for our executive search, sales and future leader recruitment. Our free candidate VIP service - connects the brightest and best leadership talent with the regions - most sought after roles, destination employers. 2025 - New Year, new horizons. YETi - for when you need a Bigfoot in the door. Hunt. Aim. Hire #Executivesearch #Salesandmarketing #Headhunt

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Being a 'Specialist Recruiter' is not a new concept, everyone has a niche now. But, if you genuinely know the space you support.....and can build trust and credibility in your market over the phone - why not do that at scale? I spoke to a client last month who had 27,000 1st connections specific to the market they support struggling for new client relationships. What was their BD strategy? Over a month emailing a list of 2500 cold contacts from ZoomInfo using a 4 stage email campaign....you know the ones. Responses so far....Zero. What were they doing on LinkedIn to engage what is a fairly hefty audience....nothing........in fact they had never posted anything, ever. Based on user stats over 20,000 of that same Recruiters connections visit LinkedIn at least once a week for 7.5 minutes on average. You can communicate with them everyday through content. And they come voluntarily - Its a completely different communication strategy . If they spent some time talking about whats happening in their market right now....building some credibility and trust they could reach 8x more than the cold list off of ZoomInfo in a shorter period. If only 1% of that audience ask the recruiter for help thats 200 enquiries a week! So again.... if you rate yourself in your niche. Why are you waiting for that connected call, or email response to give yourself the chance of standing out?

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In Q2 of this year in the UK the average Perm Consultant made 4 placements and the average Temp Consultant made 6 placements. (UK) When we looked at the consultants at the Top 5 agencies on Recruiter Insider for Candidate Experience, we discovered that: 🚀 the average Perm Consultant there made 5 placements 🚀 the average Temp Consultant made 10 placements. In Q2 alone, the agencies with the highest candidate experience scores made 1 extra Perm placement per consultant and an 4 extra temp placements per consultant. Highlighting as always the impact candidate experience has on your placement numbers. The data doesn’t lie, an improved candidate experience means more placements. But if you are not measuring this you can improve it either. So if you want to make more placements get in touch with me. The data doesn’t lie!

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It's the start of a new week here at TalentVibe and we're kicking off with a new blog about the challenges of ED&I in Engineering. Check it out now and please feel free to share, comment, debate or highlight anything I've missed. https://lnkd.in/eX_i5d7a #Diversity #EDI #DiversityinEngineering #DiverseJobs #ProcessEngineers #EngineeringCareers #ProcessSafety #ProcessSafetyEngineers #EngineeringJobs

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Bit late to it... but better late than never, right? Rundown of Q2 in Team Java & Kotlin incoming ➡➡➡ 💪🏼 122% of our quarterly target 💸 Highest billing UK team at Understanding Recruitment 🏆 We hit our team incentive 📅 23 new client meetings ✅ 1.09 CV : 1 Interview ratio It's no secret that the last 18 months haven't been the smoothest sailing for the tech market, but one thing for certain is that things are moving in the right direction. What have we got in store for Q3? 💥 If you're looking to scale your engineering team this quarter and need some advice or support, feel free to reachout for a chat about how we can alleviate some of the headaches that come with hiring! #quarterlyupdate #hiring #techrecruitment #java #kotlin

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'Can we talk about the economic state of UK staffing right now?' This UK recruitment downturn looks set to last 📉 "Net income fee is down YoY 14% Robert Walters, 15% Hays and 16.7% Page Group. Forecasts have been declining all year. Share prices have been heading broadly south since the post-Covid-19 hiring bulge." If costs stays the same, profit drops. Which could mean big redundancies in the market. You need a lower cost of carry whilst driving revenue. 💷 Instead of periods of large hiring and firing companies should seek to improve efficiency. Companies should look at strategies to improve data 📊 Better data can improve search results, which can reduce time to hire and job advertising spend. It can improve marketing and new business efforts as well as ability to leverage third parties and AI to drive more revenue. Finally, it's important for effective reporting and analytics. Which can lead to improved decision making and scalable growth. To improve data you need the right CRM, user adoption strategy and validation processes. You need it to be tailored to your service offerings and verticals. You need it to reinforce your proven processes that make your business successful. How are you improving your data?

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Tech Folk. The best way to find a new job. Take a cursory look at your inmails from recruiters. Choose the best three based on their relevance to your actual skills/interest and how much the recruiter seems to understand the market Call them, ask who their clients are (are they companies you’re interested in?) If so, build a passive relationship, tell them what companies/roles would interest you and you would want to see moving forwards. Watch the bespoke, off-market job opportunities roll in. ~Craig #recruitment #recruiting #recruiter #fintech #technologyjobs

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B2B sales = where the progression and reward is as a salesperson If you’re serious about your sales career then you’ll need this experience. Particularly if you want to break into tech sales. If you have any cold outreach, prospecting or outbound calling on your CV from a B2B environment then use it. That’s transferable. And if you don’t, then it might be worth considering other B2B sales roles as a stepping stone. Sometimes it’s better to earn and learn. Rather than wait for the perfect opportunity. #salesjobs #jobhunting #salescareer

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💡Latest insights - Account Executive roles in the UK... 💰Basic salary and packages - Anything between £45k-£125k on base, double OTE plus accelerators. 💸 What triggers higher basic salaries and OTEs ? - Deal sizes - Sales cycle - Size of the annual target (higher the target higher the base) - Stage hiring company is at in their growth. Startups, especially those that have received recent funding, often pay more to limit perceived candidate risk of joining. 🔮 Top three Industries hiring the most Account Executives currently? 1. AI 2. Data & Insights SaaS 3. CleanTech/ClimateTech 🙅‍♂️ Top three put offs for Account Executives 1. Full time in the office 2. The OTE isn't double 3. Interview process dragging on ✨Want more insights? Comment "interested" below. I'll send you our latest Sales Salary Report that provides specific ranges, likely OTE and ways to succession plan four of the most popular AE hires.

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It doesn't take much to stand out in a crowded market of 30,000+ agencies in the UK. In fact it's incredibly easy! Build better relationships with your candidates Build better relationships with your clients Build better relationships with your employees In fact data on Recruiter Insider shows us that the agencies that do this saw their fill rates last quarter outperform the average agency with a 47% better fill rate % on perm roles and 63% better on Contract roles. I want to help every agency achieve this so if you want to stand out, differentiate and build better relationships with your candidates, clients and employees reach out to me. The data doesn't lie, THIS WORKS!

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I see you 👀 Noticing more and more recruiters being “open to work” in a particular market (let’s use GTM as an example) that only seem to be using it as a ploy to get some potential new client info on who’s hiring in their market… Come on lads and lasses, we can do better than that. Yes times are tougher than usual but it’s a big wide world out there full of opportunities. Why not put some effort into engaging potential new businesses directly with an awesome cold call, or we’ll put together personalised (and bloody relevant) email as part of a sequence including video and voicenotes. Don’t be a smelly old dingleberry of a recruiter trying to cut corners. #saassales #recruitment #amibackintheearlynoughties

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This AI software is replacing recruiters all across the UK, how does it work?! It can make cold calls to businesses It can call candidates and ask what they’re looking for. Last week we had 10+ conversations with directors of recruitment companies every one of them super surprised how real and like a person our AI sounds. Imagine, 100 calls in 10minutes. Imagine 30% cost of an employee but 10+ more work done. Imagine every single data saved, all follow up calls carried out, call backs put into your calendar. This is the future, unless you start and join now you will miss out. Comment “interested” and we’ll arrange a demo for you to try yourself!

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