Someone asked me today in a comment what they should do as they are wanting to be hired as a recruiter.
Here's my reply:
I never would have pegged recruiting as the place I’d be *ever* in my life, but–for me–it is the perfect intersection of things I love: People, Technology, Communications and Sales.
Skills that are valuable….
- I don’t think I am “money hungry”, but I am money-driven.
- A good recruiter must be determined, even when they find out their “silver bullet” was only using them to get a better deal out of some other employer.
- A good recruiter needs to know how to “open” people up and get past what they say and find out what they mean.
- A good recruiter is needs a heard head and a soft heart–able to gut through the hard times yet know when to care more about people than process sometimes.
All-in-all, there is absolutely nothing about my job that can’t be simultaneously defined as “insane and frenetic” and “satisfying and thrilling”.
When it comes down to it, the thing I want to hire in a recruiter is this: Tenacity and Creativity to get the Right Person in the Right Job, no matter what. Sometimes that means telling the client they’re flat wrong. Other times, it means telling the candidate to “grow up”. But it always means you’re a problem solver, and the kind of person that makes other people inch-forward on their chair because you’re a “get it done” person, and they can sense they need to “put up or shut up”.
That person will be successful. Period.
