Good Morning __, Hi, (my name) here, specialty recruiter for (x industry). I wanted to catch up with you regarding a skilled sales engineer with a proven track record of sales performance that I recently recruited. He has over 20 years of manufacturing experience which includes (x, y, and z industries). In his career he's brought in over $60 million in sales. In just one success story he secured $21 million in sales in 3 years for a leading (industry) company. In another success story he brought in $4 million in transfer sales by offering better services to customers over 5 years. Call me if you'd like to talk with this candidate or if you're looking to fill any other (industry) positions. Listen Here Danny's Critique: I’m a big believer in leading with good news when giving a critique (so if I was giving feedback to the RNC on their recent convention, I’d have to go with, “Well, it was dark, but not as dark as…uh…Black Holes in the outer reaches of the cosmos.”), so let’s start with this… You get an A Plus with the “A” standing for “affable.” Don’t trivialize this! (I’m sure you’ve been told over and over you come across as a nice guy, [...]

Hi Danny, We have a former client, last placement was well over a year ago, and they played games and beat us down to a reduced fee on that one. My people are doing their jobs, and working on a search, and call into one of their employees. I get an indignant call from HR, I explain the scenario, and we hang up. Here's the twist. She calls back an hour later explaining that their people are bound by non-compete and non-solicitation contracts, and now that I have been informed, we can be sued for contractual interference. Seems like a baseless bully tactic, but wanted to see if you have ever encountered this one before. I realize you are not an attorney and I'm not asking for legal advice, just if you have had similar experiences. I have the matter out to our attorney for his opinion as well. Thanks! My Response: Seriously?! Okay, this HR “professional” was having a really bad day. So let me get this straight. Their people have non-solicitation covenants in their employment contracts. (Kind of weird to begin with, I’ve never seen a non-solicitation covenant that doesn’t become actionable WHEN they leave the company. The point of these covenants is to stop someone [...]