Being a recruiter can often be challenging work, but it can also be enriching when you’ve successfully matched candidates with the perfect jobs. If you want to be a recruiter, you need to have the right qualities. Here are some things you need to learn and practice to make it in recruitment:
1. Clear Communication
Successful recruiters know the value of adapting to different communication styles, which is essential when meeting various candidates. In addition, both verbal and non-verbal communications are critical to being a recruiter.
You need to learn how to communicate on paper in ways that candidates can’t misconstrue your message. Having clear communication skills is key to connecting with people and achieving objectives, especially in this job.
2. Active Listening
Apart from clear communication, successful recruiters also understand the need to listen actively. Successful recruiters listen twice as much as they speak, asking pointed and relevant questions during recruitment.
Listening lets you understand your clients’ and candidates’ needs better so you can better help them. It’s important to know what they’re looking for specifically, instead of a vague answer to a question you posed regarding their priorities. Overall, actively listening will help you ask the right questions.
3. Time Management
Successful recruiters know how to properly manage time and prioritise based on what is pertinent for the daily. You need to be focused on being productive instead of being busy and perform exactly what needs to be done.
For instance, prevent misusing your time replying to emails that are neither important nor urgent. Doing unimportant things is the thief of time, and you can’t risk that when you’re a recruiter. Make use of your time wisely by organising your day around activities that guarantee results.
4. Relationship-Building
Recruiting people means building relationships with them. You need to have the skills and the desire to build relationships and connect with people. Your success as a recruiter may also depend on how people know you or feel about you.
Since job recruitments require candidates and clients to share important information, which is sometimes personal, you need to invest time to get to know your candidates to be comfortable sharing that information with you.
5. Resilience
A good recruiter learns the importance of bouncing back from a failure or disappointment. For instance, it can be disappointing to spend several weeks trying to bring a client and a candidate together, but in the end, it doesn’t work.
When something destroys a possible opportunity, you need to learn to accept that it happens. If your candidate unexpectedly agrees with a counteroffer or the reference check is flat, you need to move on from it. It’s tough to survive in the recruitment business if you are not resilient at all.
Conclusion
The most successful recruiters know that it takes skills and the right qualities to do this job. You need to be persistent, want to be challenged and know how to roll with the punches. A career in recruitment can be challenging, but if you have what it takes, it can be gratifying.
Start In Recruitment is a sales talent for recruitment agencies, specialising in finding and placing the right professionals with sales and customer service backgrounds into their first recruitment role. We source, interview, test and place sales professionals; nothing more, nothing less. If you want to learn how to become a recruiter, get in touch with us today! We’re excited to know you.