What is a Recruitment Consultant?

April 28, 2006 · Filed Under How to Get Into Recruitment 
To become a Recruitment Consultant for some seems easy and others near impossible, so with this blog I hope to help you uncover some of the secrets in becoming a new recruitment consultants, plus a few tips to help you excel and make more money and get promoted.
Over recent years becoming a recruitment consultant has become more difficult in someway’s, although the opportunities out there are more prolific, there seems to be more hoops to get through but at the end of the day the essence is still the same.

I have probably interviewed hundreds candidates looking to get into recruitment, but in most cases it is for the wrong reasons. The reason is that you probably do not realise that to be a Recruitment Consultant you actually need to be a Sales Executive and not that likable person on the other side of the desk who spends their day interviewing candidates.

And at this point I have probably put a few of you off from joining the recruitment profession, please don’t panic as some of these large recruitment consultancies have many a varied role which may suit your personality more than others. If you want to be a recruitment consultant though you really do need to have a sales mentality, a passion and a desire to succeed because at the end of the day this is a VERY COMPETITIVE MARKET.

The key to getting you first opportunity is to have an understanding of what a Recruitment Consultancy is looking for, so here is a list of some of their ideal attributes:

• Good communication skills (Clear diction)
• Hard working (Keen to put in overtime make calls from home if necessary)
• Sales ability (Should be able to close the sale i.e. ask for the job)
• Time Management (You will be pulled in all directions)
• Good written Skills (Writing adds, resumes etc, although I have got away with it for many years!)
• Smart Appearance
• Able to deal with rejection
• When it is tough have the strength to keep focused
• Good Rapport skills
• A personality
• Be able to think outside the box, there is always more than one way to skin a cat!

Generally if you have just come out of University or a non sales role you will not have had much experience which is what most consultancies look for so with my next instalment I will try help you get past this hurdle. In fact most of what I will be telling you will help you get any job that you apply for.

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