But you would think that people looking for candidates for Google would have some good search tools available, wouldn’t you?

Jeff Barr’s Barr’s post Google Can’t Google? would have to make you wonder. A winceworthy post, I would think, for any of the recruiters involved. Jeff gets and shares a laugh over it.

And don’t miss the comments. Ouch!

One Million Dollars?  How do some recruiters earn over one million dollars per year?

Big Biller Books launches a new audiobook, “Big Biller: What Makes the Big Billers Tick – Secrets of Their Success”. Now recruiters and staffing professionals can hear first hand how Big Billers achieve their million dollar success. The audiobook, a DVD with over ten hours of audio from live interviews with recruiting industry top producers, and an 85 page e-book and roadmap for recruiters is now available.

Plano, TX (PRWEB) January 16, 2007

Throughout his highly successful 20 year career as an executive recruiter, Bill Vick kept asking himself what made the industry’s Big Billers tick. “I wanted to know the secrets of their success, what drove them, how they kept hitting winning scores,” Bill said.

A Big Biller is one who bills consistently one million dollars a year, or more, cash in. They are a rare breed. Bill Vick is on a mission to increase their numbers.

A former national rookie of the year with industry leaders Management Recruiters International, a founding member of The Pinnacle Society, a national speaker for the National Association of Personnel Services, serving on the board of Texas Association of Personnel Services and other recruiting organizations, and a Big Biller himself, Bill knew that these industry superstars were not all poured from one mold. “They all had different backgrounds, different personalities, different approaches,” Bill said. “But I was convinced that there were must be some key principles they all applied. And if we could work out what they were, that could help others be as successful or even more so.”

So in 2006 Bill set out to get the answer to his questions. He interviewed Big Billers and other industry leaders world wide and recorded the interviews word for word. And those interviews were not just general chats or “war stories”. Bill asked and got straight, detailed answers to specific, focused questions.

With thirty one in-depth live interviews recorded, ten hours in all, Bill and his co-author, Des Walsh, extracted from the interviews a set of key principles of success and incorporated them in the Big Biller e-book, together with detailed action steps for readers to apply those success principles in their own businesses.

Danny Sarch, President of Leitner Sarch Consultants and President of the Pinnacle Society, said: “Bill Vick and Des Walsh have written an extraordinary book which truly illuminates the vitality, energy, and drive of some of the absolute best in the recruiting industry.” Alan Schonberg, Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Management Recruiters International says in his Introduction to the book: “Here it is the book that can change your life”.

The Big Biller audiobook – DVD and e-book – is published by Big Biller Books and is available online at this link.

Big Biller Books, based in Plano, Texas, creates dynamic learning experiences with multimedia books about the “best of the best” in their chosen fields.

Big Biller books and audiobooks incorporate the written word, live audio interviews and dynamic web sites that show, inspire and teach others the techniques, tools and strategies needed to achieve exceptional success.

For further information contact: Bill Vick    800-364-8425  editor@bigbillerpublishing.com

I’m excited that at last we are about to launch the Big Biller Audiobook. I won’t repeat here the whole post today from my deswalsh.com site, but the testimonial I quoted there is too good for me not to want to make sure I’ve let everyone know about it.

Danny Sarch, President, Leitner Sarch Associates, and President of The Pinnacle Society, wrote:

Bill Vick & Des Walsh have written an extraordinary book which truly illuminates the vitality, energy, and drive of some of the absolute best in the recruiting industry. The practitioners profiled  are amazingly  diverse in their niches, backgrounds, and personalities.  What makes the book so special is Bill’s ability to find the commonalities among this wonderfully skilled group of people and detail their common skills and characteristics. Any recruiter who takes the time to listen and read will end up being a more skilled craftsman. 

And that’s just one.

For more information and details for ordering, click here.

The freedom of working for yourself, working from a home base comes with some risks. Pretty obviously, there are the financial risks inherent in choosing to be more self-reliant, rather than having the comfort of a paycheck provided by an employer. Although these days, with any concept of permanent or even assured long-term employment with any one employer – or even in any one industry – becoming more a folk memory than a lived reality, some of us feel that there is paradoxically more security in being more self-reliant.

But with that self-reliance comes another area of risk, which is the risk of losing focus.

Precisely because we work for ourselves and have no boss to report to, and because we have chosen or found ourselves in a situation where we can pretty much work out our own goals, priorities and opportunities, we can easily find ourselves diversifying to the point where we are not being really productive.

One of the most powerful messages in the recorded interviews I spent a lot time listening to in the past couple of months while working on the Big Biller audiobook, interviews with top billers in the recruiting industry (people who bill a million dollars or more a year), is that all of these high achievers, without exception, are very highly focused. It was so obvious from the interviews that these men and women have crystal clarity about which activities in their day are geared directly to bringing in income and which are more general or peripheral.

Then that links to goal setting and measuring performance against goals.

I’m taking this to heart just now and running a bit of ”how focused am I?” test on the professional commitments I have and the ones I’m considering.  And about how I spend my days.

I remember once trying to learn as an adult how to play Australian Rules football, having spent my younger days playing rugby. And the guy who was trying, without a lot of success, to teach me saying, “Go for the ball, keep your eye on the ball. It’s when you take your eye off the ball because you’re worried about getting hit that you will get hurt.”

That made sense. Being totally focused on getting to the ball gave me forward movement, more momentum, whereas fear-based hesitation made me vulnerable. Not that I couldn’t or didn’t get hurt when I just focused on the ball – but the coach was right, getting hit and getting hurt turned out to be less likely.

Business, like sport, is a lot about taking risks. Being focused makes the game – and business – a whole lot more enjoyable. And less risky.