Recruitment Consultant: A Great Career Move

A Recruitment Consultant works for a recruitment agency which may be a specialist recruiter or a general recruitment firm and is responsible for finding suitable candidates from a range of job seekers. This job description tells you what you need.

The recruiter's main activity is matching these job applicants to temporary or permanent positions and notified jobs with their client organizations. Some agencies specialise in blue-collar jobs such as manual workers and drivers, while others may only find jobs for temporary secretaries and office workers. The jobs themselves can vary from short term assignments and entry-level jobs, through to managers, directors and executives. Some consultants work with financial appointments while others concern themselves with engineers for instance.

When a recruiting agent works with client companies, the emphasis is on building close relationships in order to understand their recruitment needs and requirements better and to ensure that the client notifies only them of their vacancies. To find appropriate candidates the recruitment consultant needs to develop good skills at writing advertising copy, which may be for their website or in traditional print, as well as by networking with their contacts, on-line and offline to find suitable referrals from known contacts. Their job then is to screen candidates, interview them, do background checks, and finally match candidates to their clients job description and person specification as closely as possible.

As an experienced Recruitment Agent you would also be expected to provide advice and information to your clients and prospective candidates on salary levels, training and qualifications requirements and potential career opportunities within the sector.

How Do You Become A Recruitment Consultant?

What would you need to become successful in recruitment?

A consultant's role is demanding, involves working evenings and weekends and requires a range of skill such as:

• sales expertise for marketing and business development and networking ability to create profitable business relationships with client companies;
• the abilty to quickly understand client companies requirements, about their industry, what they do, their organisation's culture and their market environment;
• a good standard of English to create adverts for their vacancies and and placing these adverts in papers, websites and magazines);
• for senior jobs, recruitments will employ headhunting techniques, which means identifying and discreetly approaching suitable candidates;
• technical knowledge to conduct database searches to find the right candidates for employers' vacancies;
• the ability to rapidly review applications from interested job seekers, arrange and manage preliminary interviews and short-list candidates for submission to their clients;
• preparing job briefing packages for candidates about the job responsibilities, salary and benefits.

A recruitment consultant will also be involved in all of the administration activities including preparing candidate CVs, correspondence with clients, organising interviews, informing candidates about the results and finalising arrangements between client and candidates.

So if you want an interesting career in recruitment, and you have the right personal attributes and qualities, it will count for a great deal even without experience, you should find plenty of opportunities if you are prepared to work hard, work long hours and are keen to earn a great salary.

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