Story Why I am a recruiter? A glimpse about recruitment profession.

“Like any job, recruitment comprises both good and bad facts.”

Sometimes I am asked: “So why are you a recruiter?” It’s a great question really. I mean you don’t go to school for it. I don’t know of anyone who says “I want to be a recruiter when I grow up!” There are some good answers to this and they are all pretty different I assume.

If you are a recruiter you’ll know that most of us get here involuntarily.

It’s never anyone’s childhood wish, it just sort of happens when somebody, somewhere sells you the dream.

I had never heard any of the kids imagining “when I grow up, I want to be a recruiter”, basically because it was an unnoticed profession and no one understood how important the recruitment process was critical for any organizations.

Recruiting is sales – no it’s not – yes it is! Nope, not going there. That’s a different post for a different day. Instead of talking about what recruiting does, I want to talk about what recruiting has done for me as a profession – and as a passion.

The opportunity for networking with people and working in a Global environment took me to my current position !!!

My first impression when I started recruiting was that recruitment must be easy, everyone wants a job, Right? This is the case, but there is lot more involved in recruiting. It is an exhaustive process to source a candidate that has the right skillset, the capability, and the mindset to move and who will be the right fit for the client. Of course, there is no 2nd place in recruitment.

If you don’t find the right person for the role someone else will!

Recruitment can be maddening at times as you are dealing with the most complex thing in the universe: Humans. Yes, you heard me correct !!!

However, despite its difficulties, recruitment is an excitement, full of incentives and a great atmosphere, which is why I love my job!

We are hated by our clients and consultants, who look at us as a necessary evil and usually disregard everything we say as soon as our conversation ends. If we succeed, either HR or the manager is praised. If there is the failure, it is ours to own as recruiters. Many times, Recruiters brought on as “contractors,” so we’re easily replaceable if we can’t immediately do the impossible and immediately start finding people to fill some of the craziest roles ever imagined.

It is full of excitement because every day as a recruiter you are in a head-to-head competition to attract top talent, and fortunately you know definitively within 90 days whether you have beaten the competition. The impact of a recruiter is twofold: first, you can literally change the life of an individual by placing them in their dream job, and second, you can effectively change the direction and the success of a corporation with a single great hire in a key job.

We are matrixed to death by people that were either not good enough to be real recruiters or by failures that saw an easier path into HR. I personally have been “dressed down” or “taken to task” and told that I don’t know what I am doing and this is what I should do to be successful.

I think that just about once a month throughout my career I have wondered a simple question:

"why I chose recruitment as a profession". “Why the hell I am doing this?” 

It’s a question all of us in recruiting have probably faced at some point or another, and the answer according to me is, few people might have the different one:-

I make a difference when I help someone get a good job, move forward with his or her career, or just listen and pay it forward by handing them off to someone else that can help them succeed. These are people. They pay bills like me, they are just trying to make it like me

The other is when the rare manager or “boss” gives you a pat on the back, takes you to lunch, or gives you a gift card for that really great find. I make a difference by supporting the team and helping the company to continue to profit and pay the bills.

Excitement-related reasons

If you’re interested in excitement, here are eight reasons to consider a job in recruiting.

The competition is exciting — if you are competitive, as a recruiter you will realize that filling each job is a head-to-head competition that can be energizing.

An opportunity to meet the best — if you like to meet and interact with exciting people, recruiting allows you to meet and get to know hundreds of outstanding people and some innovators each month.

Recruiting tools are continually evolving — if you enjoy continually learning, you will find recruiting to be exciting because it is probably the fastest changing field in talent management. Because of this rapid rate of change, you will be constantly learning how to use new technologies and new communications approaches.

There are very few professions that give you the ability to not only change lives but let you be creative in the process. Recruiting involves multiple hats that range from being an influencer to a negotiator. The really good talent out there is not always looking. They need to be sought after and then convinced that they should take your job. Sometimes this is a monumental task at best. Yet that is what makes it exciting.

I know you remember your very first hire, right? We all do. Mine was in my 2nd week at a staffing company in 2005. Once the contractor signed the deal I went across the street for a Maggie and said to myself, “that was the most satisfying thing I have ever done at the job.” And I’ve been hooked ever since. No hiring manager, candidate, or HR person can ever take that away from me.

There is nothing more satisfying to me an offer letter to a new hire. It is like the smell after a fresh rainstorm on a summer day. wide open eye, pride, happy dance, ring that bell, or just let out a rebel yell! This is the feeling that drives me to continue on. For me, it’s an adrenaline rush that comes only with knowing a job has been well done and done in such a way that everyone ends up satisfied.

Recruiting is No. 1 in business impact — research has shown that recruiting ranks No. 1, with the greatest bottom-line business impact on revenue and profit of any talent management function. Just like in sports, it is obvious to almost everyone that you are making a difference when you successfully recruit top talent into the organization. New products will get to market faster and projects will be completed on time because you didn’t allow ineffective hiring to become a roadblock to business success. In some cases, a single new hire whom you bring in could create a major innovation or a new product worth millions. If you have the right skill set, you can tweak your own recruiting process so that it also successfully presents and hires high-value diverse candidates and innovators.

Employees and managers will be grateful — as you fill more jobs, the number of employees who will be grateful to you for helping them land their current job will continue to increase. Hiring managers will also be thankful that you helped to improve their team’s performance by finding and landing top candidates. As result, most recruiters will have a large number of thankful employees and managers who are willing to do them a favor in return or who will gladly offer their assistance in recruiting additional new talent.

Would you like to work as a Recruiter? Do you want to know what the top 15 qualities of a great recruiter are? or you may learn while working as a recruiter.

?   Listening Skills      

?   Confidence

?   Target-driven

?   Speed

?   Team working Skills

?   Marketing Skills

?   Relationship building skills

?   Communication Skills

?   Multitasking

?   Time Management Skills

?   Patience

?   IT and Social Media Skills

?   Body Language Skills

?   Problem-solving skills

?   Reliability

?   Trust

It may be blunt, but it is true. Whether you are an external or corporate recruiter, your success (and paycheck) is judged on how well you fill your openings. Success in recruiting is not judged on how well you find jobs for your friends or family. What I mean by this is I have to find a candidate for my opening; I cannot be your personal job agent.I am not writing this to discourage those who are friends with recruiters. If you know a recruiter in your life you must be strategic with that relationship.

Special thanks to Recruiters from staffing industry and experts who shared blogs & personal experience in form of blogs & Article to keep the people like us moving forward within the industry and motivate further to write more about it. Some of above content belong to the expert from staffing industry.