RecruiterLife 🕵️♂️ #EntryLevelRecruiter 🤝 #RecruitmentAgency 💼
Hey there! So, you’ve landed a gig as an entry-level recruiter at a recruiting agency, that’s awesome! Don’t stress if you’re new to this field – they’re willing to train you from scratch.
Day-to-Day Life of a Recruiter
The life of a recruiter can indeed be stressful, but it can also be rewarding. Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- Sourcing candidates through various channels 📢
- Conducting interviews and screenings 🤝
- Building relationships with clients and candidates 💬
- Negotiating job offers 💼
- Keeping track of metrics like time to fill, and candidate satisfaction 📊
Tips for Success
If you’re looking to thrive in this role, consider the following tips:
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Embrace the Sales Aspect: Yes, recruiting can be sales-y, but think of it more as a matchmaking game. You’re helping candidates find their dream jobs and clients find their ideal employees.
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Time Management is Key: With multiple job openings and candidates to juggle, staying organized and managing your time effectively is crucial.
- Be a Relationship Builder: Building strong relationships with both candidates and clients will set you apart as a recruiter.
Is it Stressful?
While recruiting can be stressful at times, it can also be incredibly fulfilling. It all depends on how you approach the challenges that come your way. Don’t be afraid to ask for help or seek advice from seasoned recruiters.
Share Your Story
Have you worked as a recruiter? What advice would you give to someone just starting out in the field? Let’s help each other grow and succeed in the world of recruitment! 💪
Best of luck on your new journey as an entry-level recruiter! 🚀
Well, it’s most definitely a sales job so expect it to be “sales-ey”. You’ll need to be someone who is comfortable stepping outside of your comfort zone, takes nothing personally (thick skin), competitive, HIGHLY resilient, money driven.
Watch the recruiters around you, pick out the things you like about their approach, discard what you don’t. I’ve been doing it for over 20 years and it’s been an amazing career for me. It’s not for the faint of heart, but if you’re good…
It can be a stressful job, sure – but it can also be great. I don’t think of myself as working in sales – rather, I decided that I’m going to make myself into a marketer. Maybe that sounds the same – but I think there is a different. A salesperson is trying to convince, trying to persuade. A marketer is trying to position. I picked a niche – I decided I was going to offer value within my niche as a way of a) staying in front of people and b) establishing expertise. I developed resources that I give away for free as a means of achieving those goals and it’s worked for me. I still do the full-desk thing, talking to candidates, looking for talent to fill the jobs I have open, but the longer I’ve been focusing on marketing, the less business development I’ve had to do. I don’t have to convince people of anything – they know who I am and what I’m about. It’s going to be more sales at the beginning – you have to convince someone that you can meet their need…but if you focus on marketing yourself, over time, you’ll do less and less sales and more and more consulting.
It can be very stressful – but it can also be a great gateway to internal recruiting in a couple years if you find that you like the field but not the high pressure sales environment.
I did 2 years of agency recruiting many years back, realized it wasn’t for me – but also realized I wanted the job of the internal recruiters who worked at the companies I was placing people.
The agency experience is very helpful, I still carry the sense of urgency and scrappiness with me in the internal side – which can definitely help you stand out within an internal team. But with that you also need to fine tune your candidate experience/hiring manager consulting skills.
Idk if I’m sharing anything helpful here – but my tldr is that if you find the stress and salesyness isn’t for you- but you still want to pursue a career in recruiting – still be intentional about what you are doing and learning during your agency time, and also it’s never too soon to start trying to network with talent leaders at companies you’d see yourself wanting to work at some day.
You’ll hate it and go in house like most. Every place is different so it’s hard to say. My place would have strict rules of call numbers, interviews, and pipeline. They would literally send out a call list 2 times a day so you knew where you were at. It was micromanaging at its finest. I’d call Pizza Hut like 20 times a day lol. GL op!