It's not always rainbows and sunshine in our line of work (most of the time, that's the case lol).

To survive long-term in this role, here are the top 7 suggestions Dandan shares on how she has motivated herself in this career to reach top-levels of billing and reach her financial goals.

Don't worry about the noise; just focus on why you're doing what you're doing and double down until you reach the dream you set out to achieve.

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Having spoken to thousands of recruiters, we constantly help candidates decide if agency recruitment and this sales career is something they should continue pursuing.

Dandan breaks down the top considerations to make when deciding your career future to stay in the agency recruitment space or not.

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As a direct hire aka perm recruiter since day 1 of Dandan's career, she shares the most important contract clauses to negotiate so that you don't get screwed over by deals going sideways.

It's critical to be tight on your contracts and to take negotiations seriously. The consequences are painful when these clauses aren't examined upfront to make sure you're protected!

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In today's crazy market conditions, your time is more valuable than EVER.

Any wasted effort that you could have spent on something else hurts your pocketbook and how your clients can perceive your abilities if you can't drive deals to close.

Candidate commitment and control is paramount in these critical times. Hear more on the main process to stay in control and determine next steps once you've had a chance to dig deeper.

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Today's candidate market is worse than usual, so it's inevitable you'll face candidates who will want to leverage you against other recruiters to have you all compete for their placement.

Having recently experienced the perfect example to help you combat this issue, this podcast walks through how to handle this crazy market and candidates who want to use multiple recruiters.

TLDR: Proceed at your own risk and know your strategy!

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We'll cover 3 main points as related to candidate process & management:

- Sell Reqs with gusto, knowledge, and authority

- Sell candidates on your process, considering counters, other processes, and timing factors

- Handle & leverage objections to both educate yourself, your clients, and other candidates

Learning all these topics will help you sell better and preemptively understand candidate concerns so you can get ahead of the potential deal issues.

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As a headhunter/agency recruiter, you're not supposed to steal your company's one and only intellectual property: data for clients and candidates.

Employers use noncompetes to scare the living daylights out of entrepreneurial staff who may want to go to a smaller firm or start their own.

Learn here what REALLY matters when dealing with non-competes!

Don't ever be suckered into a situation where your candidate bamboozles you and takes time, effort, and mental stability away from you.

Here are 4 things to watch out for in candidate behavior that you absolutely need to address in order to maintain order in the recruitment and representation process.

As much as we love the best candidates, it's the ones who aren't great that will cause the most stress - use these strategies to mitigate your losses.

In evaluating recruitment markets, it's crucial to pick the right one to build your career and business on because you can't just pick up and go every time you feel like it.

Thus, as a headhunter, you have to recognize the signs of a candidate versus client-driven market and make sure you're operating in the right one so that you can dominate the space.

Tune in to learn more about how your recruitment journey can leverage this information!

Our profession, like all professions, will have good days and bad days. However, due to the low barriers of entry and exit, so many people miss out on the incredible lifestyle this career and create due to one bad day leaving them to give up.

No matter how tough last year was, last month was, today may be, or tomorrow might be, let's remember all the reasons why you love your profession and fall in love with it again like the way you felt at the beginning of your journey!

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