Recruitment as a wonderful neglected Profession- Freshers 2019- Get Hired to Hire.

I keep interacting with freshers (B.Tech, MBA majorly) in professional and personal life and have never heard of anyone tell me, Rakshit, I want to be a Recruiter. And, We all somehow share the same story with each other telling, how we became recruiters by chance. None of the Talent Aquisition professionals I know ever wanted to be a recruiter and most of them joined with a hope that later we would become HRs. :) Which never happened.

But with the evolving time, the impact TA has been making from the last 6-8 yrs, the game should have changed. But, does not seems the case. Freshers don't have talent acquisition in the preference list of jobs.

Its time you should - This article is for every Btech, Mtech, MBA, MCA, PGDM etc, passing college this year-2019-20 to give it a thought to be a recruiter.

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Who is a Recruiter?

Recruiter is responsible for sourcing and hiring of professionals to fill a JOb. The recruiter works to identify and fill job openings by interview candidates and keep records of applications. Very simple to understand but hard to do.

Being a part of Talent Acquisition function which is a sub-function of HR. Recruiters/TA Experts play a very vital role in attracting talent in the talent war specifically in the technology/eCommerce/startup industry where the candidates are the king. 

With over 4 Million Talent Acquisition professionals globally it's a wonderful career to be in because of 2 reasons :

1. Competition for talent is going to get better. (The Actual world war 3)
2. Demand for jobs would never go low.

Recruiters will be the one who would save this world. :) (ML/AI will just automate the processes)

Talent Acquisition is a game of persistence and brains. Repeating TALENT searches every time with new learnings from the last search will always keep you on the toes. 

What makes the Job Exiting to start your Career? A LOT !!!!!!!!!

Other Side of the Table- You are allowed to Judge

The first great experience is your first question to the first candidate you interview as a recruiter. You feel the authority and accountability of how it feels to shortlist someone for a job. It's exciting and challenging both. But you would enjoy this.

Continues Knowledge War

Conversation with Candidates is meaningful only if you have the knowledge. You need to be updated of the industry, the company, and, at times even about projects in companies and competitors. So that's the real knowledge war that can win you trusted candidates.

Jack of All trade - Master of Men Market

As a recruiter, you need to be well aware of Business, Finance, HR, Sales, Marketing and the industry. So be ready to absorb content and to be a good search engine within. One thing you should be on tips is the resource market you hire for, else you will be soon dead.(Not literally)

It’s thrilling.

Getting someone a Job -With a happy client, a happy candidate, and a reward for your hard work, you go home smiling. Not every day is going to offer those thrills, but the days that do make it worth being a recruiter.

You are rewarded for your performance.

It’s not all about the money, but it helps. Place more candidates, make more money – simple. 

Be the Sherlock

The search is always on …. Finding a fit candidate needs a lot of research and strategy. Searching for the correct fit, with an interest in the job, is something that makes it more interesting, and then the matching of candidate expectations, and then not losing the candidate, make you keep the search on, till someone joins.

Strategy - to make it work

Finding the interested matching pool of candidates, getting them interviewed and ensuring the joining within the defined time frame makes recruitment a very delivery oriented profile. Numbers with quality matrix become key indicators and planning to kill both is a super task. Strategy for ensuring delivery on time in Talent acquisition is something not all can get correct. Because it's not always everything in your hands. Even till the last minute before the candidate joins the company, you would not know if the strategy worked. :)

Human bias impact

So we have a candidate, interviewers & hiring manager, and recruiters, the entire process is impacted and owned by human beings judging each other, and the company(Which is the only non-human component). You would understand that the decisions of such a human dependent process would surely have a lot of bias to control. You remain the gatekeeper ensuring the correct comes in. So you need to make sure the process rules not the people. Be the implementer and executor.

Learn a lot about human behaviour.

Recruiters work with a range of different personalities, from extreme introverts to extroverts and ambiverts. With each personality, we have to adapt and structure our communication - sometimes we are a friend, a coach, a therapist, a teacher, etc.

Amazing Network

You end up with an amazing network of fantastic and interesting people. I've met so many people with amazing stories through my time as a recruiter. Everything from high powered CEO's, startup founders, tech experts & people with fascinating life stories.

Wonderful Community 

Meet any recruiter in the community you would surely find him a personality. If not, he/she is not in the correct profession.

Welcome to the world of Recruiting. All the best.

Still, don't want to be a recruiter. Do not worry we will see you on the other side of the table.