Why To Become A Recruiter?

Today, over 100,000 professionals work as recruiters. This number will grow many-fold because India will skill 300 million youth in the next 10 years and they all have to be placed. Companies like TCS and Reliance already have huge recruiter teams headed by Vice Presidents earning salaries over a crore per annum. 

Yes, like doctors and chartered accountants, recruiters have a professional association and celebrate Recruiters Day on March 5th every year.  

Nine reasons why we are recruiters

• Reason 1: Two birds in one stone 
  Recruiting is about fitment - between the expectations of the job seeker and the employer. Matching the two, who often come with conflicting expectations, is the biggest challenge. But when you get this right the reward is phenomenal. When some one asked me why I enjoy being a recruiter, I said, "When I get the right person to join the right company, there are two people who are eternally grateful to me - the CEO of the employer company and the professional employee. Tell me one other profession that gives you two birds with one stone?" 
• Reason 2: Every professional - junior or senior - needs me, all the time. 
  Whenever I meet a successful professional, whether a CEO or a junior manager, they ask me only one question-"how is the job market?" You know why? If things go wrong with the current employer, the recruiter is the only friend who can help the professional. Today more than 10,000 senior level professionals know me and stay in touch with me because you never know when things can go wrong and they will need my help.  
• Reason 3: Every company- big or small - needs a professional recruiter.
  When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company will succeed or not. Each is a 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? 
  
  “A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does." Steve Jobs 
  
  Every company, big, small, MNC or SME, requires a quality recruiter.  
• Reason 4: Top notch recruiters are paid on par with top sales man
  “I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.” – Lawrence Bossidy, GE 
  
  Whatever a company produces -cars or cosmetics- hiring great people for a business, is always the most important task of any business leader.  Every great company has a great hiring team and top notch recruiters are paid on par with top sales man  
• Reason 5: I bring joy to people 
  Most of the people I know are busy selling products and services to people - cars, houses, clothes, vacation etc. You need money to buy them. But who puts money in people's pocket? The recruiter. 
  
  By giving people the right job and by helping people move up the corporate ladder, I give people the earning potential to spend. And the joy of spending. No other profession does this.  
• Reason 6: I can transform lives of a million youth in one life time 
  When a recruiter helps a fresh graduate with the Right  First Job , the graduate life changes forever. Very often the rural youth are denied the best jobs because they have no champions. When a recruiter champions and helps a rural graduate find the right job the transformation is total. Not only the individual benefits , the whole family benefits. So you transform many lives not just one.  
  Every recruiter in a month can connect with at least  100 professionals. Over 35 years or 10000 days , you can connect with a million people. You have the opportunity to impact a million lives in your life time in a positive way. Who will let go of this  great opportunity ? 
• Reason 7: I have become a better  human  being  
  Every day brings a new insight into human behaviour. Because you meet people with varied interest and levels of experience. Will the new person succeed in the work environment of the employer ? What motivates a person to change his / her job? This are  complex questions and the answer lies in understanding of human psychology . Today I can claim expertise in occupational psychology thanks to this job.  
  In my job I also meet very successful people as well as people who are struggling to hang on to their jobs. I understand why some succeed and why some fail. I have seen how the cocky and successful HR manager suddenly loses his job and becomes distraught and desperate. This job has taught me not to take all the credit for success nor take all the blame for failure. It has taught me that humility is a very important virtue of every professional. I have become a better person thanks to this job.  
• Reason 8: There is never a dull day at work
  Every day is a new day. Talking and meeting  a new set of people and listening to their stories makes my day exciting and enriching. Every day needs innovation at work.
• Reason 9: This job is much bigger than recruiting. 
  Every professional needs a talent manager to advice on job changes , compensation , employer research etc. I know and understand thousands of job roles thanks to my conversation with the job seekers. The respect you get from top notch professionals when you transform into a talent manager gives you a " high" that cannot be matched.  

No other job can give you this wide exposure of industries and job roles.