How to Be a Good Recruiter

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By sabrinacareer
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What is being a recruiter? A recruiter is someone that will go through resume's, interview and decide if the candidate is right for the job, sometimes a recruiter will work inside the actual company or with different clients. The employment or recruiting industry has about three different sections with staffing and employment agencies being the biggest part. Then there are the headhunters which their main job is to recruit executive and high management people, and there is also the in-house recruiting, in fact a lot of bigger companies have a department dedicating to corporate recruiting.

A recruiter usually has to do both aspects of finding new clients as well as fulfill the needs of the clients. In this article I am going to focus more on the finding the right candidate for either the company itself or for the client. First thing recruiting is sales, you are selling the company and the job to potential employees and of course they will have to sell their skills to you.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Step 1

Understand the job that is trying to get filled: first and foremost study the job description that either your client or your company gives you, if you understand what the company needs it will be easier to search for the right candidate.
Step 2

Know how and what questions to ask: any questions that you may have ask, ask and ask away to both your client or company and the candidate.
Step 3

Do not give up: this is important, sometimes you will have harder jobs to fill, but keep on trying, get that phone and start calling potential candidates and if you have too many resumes to go over, try and pick a few maybes and call those candidates to ask more clarifying questions to see if they could be a good match. And do not let "no, I am not interested in the job, pay, benefits etc" get you down.
Step 4

Know how to listen: this is essential when speaking to your client as well as when interviewing candidates, in the last case be prepared to pick up on sign of interest or anything that can seem a good or bad match for your company or the client.
Step 5

Be confident but not cocky: being confident helps especially when dealing with candidates that will try to put you and your job down and act a little too cocky. Cockiness in the recruiting business does not get you far, but being confident in your knowledge and your job will eventually put the person in his or her place, with out losing professionalism.
Step 6

Be professional: professionalism is important, because you have to be taken seriously. Dress appropriately and never lose control with candidates or clients.
Step 7

Have people skills: to be a recruiter you have to like people to be a recruiter but you also must have good people and communication skills to build a fast relationship with the candidate.
Step 8

Have good stress management skills because this will be a fast paced environment as you will work on more than one job opening at a time, therefore you always need to know how to keep calm and multi-task.