We usually use this blog as a platform to offer advice,
tips and updates
on the legal landscape. However, we’re expanding rapidly and are on the lookout
for individuals to join our team. Do you have what it takes to make it as a
recruiter? Here are the top five skills you’ll need to succeed.
Confidence
You’ll need to be able to hold your own with people who are
experts at what they do, and don’t appreciate their time being wasted and that
means you have to be confident. Nobody wants to be consulted on a potentially
life changing job move by someone who they suspect might know not their
specialist field as well as they say they do. You need to be confident enough to take
on new areas of expertise, but also be able to portray that confidence to
clients and candidates. In addition, you’ll have to be comfortable picking up
the phone and engaging with people who don’t know what your credentials are and
likely to be at least mildly sceptical about what you’re doing. Many jobs
require people to be confident, but not many where it’s as important as it is
in recruitment.
Communication
Along similar lines, you’ll need to be an effective and
concise communicator and able to get your point across quickly. You’ll probably
be speaking to people who are busy in their current roles and don’t want to
waste hours of their lives chatting to a recruiter. You’ll also need to be able
to master your email communications and online marketing on platforms like LinkedIn. After all,
you’re not going to have much success if your job advert iz ritten lyk dis.
Resilience
It’s not just applicants who face rejection, recruiters do
too and you need to be able to take the bumps on the road and still be able to
perform to the best of your ability. You’ll have good days and bad – that’s a
given – but the secret is being able to prevent the bad days from affecting
your output.
Target driven and
motivated
At the vast majority of firms, you’ll have certain KPIs to
work to. That’s an approach that’s not suited to everyone and not all
organisations have the same model, people who are motivated by the idea of
working to specific goals will do well here.
Multi-tasking and
speed
As a job applicant it’s unlikely you’ll have used just one
recruiter to help your job search and organisations are the same and will look
to multiple sources for their own talent. This means that if you can move
quickly and efficiently, then you’ll be able to beat your competitors. However,
you’ll also have a lot to do at once and will likely be dealing with a lot of
vacancies and therefore multiple companies and even more candidates.
Consequently, you must be able to juggle multiple projects and various tasks simultaneously. You’ll have to keep in mind the details, experience and
motivators of a large number of people and this requires a lot of
organisational competency. If you can master the idea of ‘less haste, more speed’
then you’ll do well.
Do you have what it
takes?
If you’re looking for a career in a
challenging and fast-moving, but also highly rewarding, industry and want to
join a successful, supportive and rapidly growing organisation, then get in touch with one of
our expert consultants for a chat. And
for more insights from the team take a look at our other blogs.
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