Recruitment Consultant
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- What's it like to be a Recruitment Consultant?
- How to become a Recruitment Consultant
- Latest Recruitment Consultant jobs
- Top skills and experience for Recruitment Consultants
What's it like to be a Recruitment Consultant?
Recruitment Consultants are intermediaries hired by organisations to find the best professionals to recruit as their staff. Recruitment Consultants work closely with employers and jobseekers to ensure they make the best recommendations and find the right fit. They interview both employers and jobseekers on their needs, requirements, and requests. They evaluate employers on their business, work culture, and objectives, and they assess jobseekers on their work ethic, work style, and personal ambitions. Recruitment Consultants match employers and jobseekers that are a good fit.
Tasks and duties
- Understanding and fulfilling client requirements.
- Finding jobseekers and candidates.
- Employing recruitment methods to find candidates.
- Combing through databases to find potential candidates.
- Evaluating resumes and curricula vitae.
- Scheduling interviews with candidates.
- Interviewing candidates in the pre-interview phase.
- Administering examinations and other special steps for clients and employers.
- Matching candidates to appropriate positions in a company.
- Establishing relationships with employers and jobseekers.
- Creating a network of candidates and employers.
Recruitment Consultants need good communication, sales, customer service, listening networking and relationship building skills.
How to become a Recruitment Consultant
Pursuing higher education and completing a degree can greatly improve your chances of becoming a Recruitment Consultant.
Pursue a bachelor degree in human resources or another related course.
Complete an HR internship at an established HR organisation or department.
Get an entry-level job in human resources.
Gain years of work experience in order to prove your specialisation and expertise.
Develop your network of candidates and employers.
Get a job as a Recruitment Specialist.
After years of experience you could create your own recruitment agency or human resources company.
