In DC today doing the opening keynote for recruitDC.  Topic: The 7 Biggest Lies in Recruiting.  

Check out one of the scenarios below.  Can you pick out the lies in this rundown of Rick?

"The Story:  Rick is a Sr. Account Executive for Kruk Brothers Recruiting.  As a member of the Kruk team, Rick has been a high performer, making the President’s Club for Sales (given to those who hit 200% of quota within the budget year) every year he’s been a part of the company.  Rick is directly responsible for 19% of the recurring revenue that exists in the 10M Company, and he keeps adding to that stack.

More on Rick’s pitch:  Rick makes sales for Kruk Brothers because he’s goooooooood.  Rick learned early in his career never to lead with the actual price, and he’s quick to tell you how the Kruk Brothers recruiting team is different.   What’s that?  You want to know what he says?  OK… The team is hardworking, they’ve got recruiters specializing in every vertical that’s important to your company, they’re in touch with the best candidates in the areas you need and they’ve got a sourcing group that does nothing but locate hard to find candidates.   If you want to engage Kruk Brothers, get ready to enter into a retained search agreement that’s going to cost you at least 30%.  Rick drives a 700 Series BMW to work that has fantastic integrated Bluetooth.

Hint: He really does have fantastic integrated bluetooth in that car.  So, that's not the lie...