The Complete Guide to Owning And Operating a Home-Based Recruiting Business: A Step-by-Step Business Plan for Entrepreneurs [Paperback]

Charrissa Cawley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2001

This book is a terrific resource for individuals interested in launching their own recruiting business, for "9 to 5ers" who have had enough of Corporate America and for parents who have decided to start a home-based business. Readers will learn the tricks of professional recruiting in this comprehensive, easy to read manual. This book will teach you how to start a successful recruiting business where you can generate a six-figure income working from home. Topics covered include:Getting startedValuable recruitment research secretsSample marketing and recruiting scripts, Recruiting resourcesInternet recruiting and much more!Based on years of hands on experience, Charrissas innovative ideas and recruiting methods have helped produce great results and performance improvements in new recruiters. She is the founder of Beachwood Associates, a recruitment research firm dedicated to the development of the research process within the recruiting industry.In addition to starting and managing her own successful business, she has worked with growing corporations and retained search firms across the nation as a recruiter and consultant.

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About the Author

Charrissa resides in San Diego, California, with her husband Jeff and daughter Madison.

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (January 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595163955
• ISBN-13: 978-0595163953
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #703,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #75 in Books > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Business Plans

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete Guide Written for Self Promotion- Save Your Money, April 19, 2003

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WB Woman (Arlington, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Guide to Owning And Operating a Home-Based Recruiting Business: A Step-by-Step Business Plan for Entrepreneurs (Paperback)

This is the first time I've read a book when it was obvious to me its only purpose was that the author could say she authored something.

It is so over-simplified and incomplete that my hunch is the author tried to write an article about starting a recruiting business and nobody wanted to publish it (even for free on the Net) so she decided to publish the information in a book.

Other "reviewers" must be friends of the author  Im baffled by their reviews and can see no reason why anyone would say anything good about this book  it was written for shameless self-promotion. This incomplete, tiny, guide filled with sunshine and roses, paints a completely unrealistic picture about becoming a recruiter. (In her world new clients are always happy to hear from you and finding qualified candidates is a snap  she gives no practical advice on how to find new clients.)

The entire book took 25 minutes to read. It contains about 60 pages of information (written in large font with plenty of white space) but includes an insulting 40 blank pages entitled "Notes" (just in case you missed something!) and endless pages of worthless Internet links she included to fatten it up. She omits standard industry resources Essential to new recruiters - either because she doesn't know or doesn't want you to know. I cant imagine that this author is stable because no one in their right mind would think of this as a complete guide, or any kind of guide to starting a recruiter business.

Chapter 1 consists of 5 pages of written words + 4 blank note pages  this pattern continues throughout the book.
Its the worst, cheesiest, business book I've ever bought. No matter how desperate you are for the information, please don't waste your money or you'll end up like me - feeling scammed and knowing all about the authors company. Better information is available free on the Net.

Lastly, it should be noted that this person is not a recruiter. She is a recruitment researcher, which means she helps executive recruiters find candidates  and has likely received some recruiter assignments as an extension of her research service. This is important to note because finding candidates is so difficult that recruiters hire executive researchers to find candidates; an extremely expensive service. However, she includes no practical information on how to find candidates; everything is happy in her book.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money!, April 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Guide to Owning And Operating a Home-Based Recruiting Business: A Step-by-Step Business Plan for Entrepreneurs (Paperback)

Terrible. It was absolutely terrible. I'm ashamed of myself for having wasted the money -- especially since I read some of the other reviews warning me not to do so. I agree with the reviewers who wrote he felt scammed and the other who said you'd be better off buying your own blank note book and filling it in yourself.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Owning and Operating a Home Based Recruiting Business?, January 30, 2003

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Lisa Guido Mayer (Saratoga Springs, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Guide to Owning And Operating a Home-Based Recruiting Business: A Step-by-Step Business Plan for Entrepreneurs (Paperback)

Although this book had some useful information-it was very very basic-some of the information regarding the sales aspect of recruiting was not realistic either and painted a very pretty picture about the process. Although the information is useful-it is best used as a resource for those who know nothing about recruiting.