A Day In The Life Of A Recruitment Consultant
By Jo Hood, Principal Consultant for Eventus Finance and Head of Eventus Recruitment Cheshire.
Before I joined the wonderful Eventus Recruitment Group I worked within rec2rec for many years. For those of you not familiar with that industry it is basically the recruitment of recruitment consultants (yes I had many puzzled faces looking back at me when I told people that’s what I did for a living)! So in my rec2rec days I would often need to try and paint a picture of a ‘A Day in the Life of a Recruitment Consultant’. Truth is some days it would look like Picasso himself had painted it and other days it would look like a toddlers attempt … what I am trying to say is there are great days in recruitment and there are blinking tough days in recruitment (guess that could be true of all though jobs though).
However, the thread that runs through every day is the variety that there is within any given day. A day in recruitment can be frustrating, exasperating, wonderful, delirious … but it will never be boring!
There are numerous conversations with candidates, getting to the bottom of what they are really looking for in their next role, getting a real handle on what is going to make them happy and fulfilled moving forward. On the flip side there are numerous conversations with clients getting to the bottom of what their next candidate is going to need to give them to make them happy and fulfilled. And then the simple (or supposedly simple) task of matching the two. Interviews to arrange, candidates and clients to prepare ahead of interviews, feedback to take, offers to present …. And so on and so on ….
I haven’t yet mentioned the fact that before all of the above can happen we have got to have sourced said clients and candidates and then write adverts, prepare CVs, map markets …. And so on and so on ….
So, I guess in conclusion ‘A Day in the Life of a Recruitment Consultant’ is busy! (or at least it should be if you are doing it well) It’s also rewarding, at times exhilarating , good fun and at the end of the day it feels like a job well done!
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Due to a fantastic 2021 and opening up Eventus Recruitment Cheshire we are expanding our team. We are looking for a Recruitment Consultant and a Graduate Trainee Recruitment Consultant to join Jo in our Cheshire office in Wilmslow. If one of these opportunities sounds like the right career opportunity for you, find out more about working for the Eventus Recruitment Group and view the full job descriptions here. Alternatively, send your CV and cover letter to Amy Watson at amy.watson@eventuslegal.com.
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