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Recruitment jobs – crafting a career

November 13, 2008 |

But if you’re good, one thing’s for sure, the financial rewards can be great. Your early years in recruitment jobs form the basis for long term results if you use them correctly.

For instance, imagine the viewpoint a recruitment agency director might take when on the look out for hot new candidates to expand his team. What is he looking for ideally?

Experience, either temporary or permanent in the area of recruitment they specialise in
Previous experience within the relevant sector possibly as a recruitment consultant or even an employee
An impeccable track record of proven good results in the area of recruitment you’ve so far worked in

I’ve actually been that recruitment agency director. On occasion my major concern has been how to devise ways to stop a particular candidate being snapped up by a competitor. Manage to prevent this occurence and the world is yours on a plate

I take the view that the first three years working in recruitment jobs is a type of apprenticeship during which your main ambition should be to develop your skills so well anyone looking for a recruitment consultant to join their team would be unable to resist you. It’s vital to gain an excellent track record and experience in both the areas of temporary and permanent recruitment. This should be your main aim over and above consideration of possible earnings potential. Look at it this way once you’re CV is crafted to show just how perfect a candidate for a recruitment consultant you are then you will be able to take your pick and work in the most lucrative sector. And your salary here will more than make up for any shortfall in those early years.

Working in the right sector could literally make a good recruitment consultant worth their weight in gold. Consider that in financial recruitment for accountants and such, major players in the field average approx £8000 per placement. An OK recruitment might make 2 placements a month while an excellent one could be making 5. That would mean £24K for a top flyer that adds up to fees of £288K in a year. If this were the case the recruitment director despite paying a generous basic salary and 50% bonus would still make a huge profit. This just goes to show how easily the very best consultants can earn well over £100K in some sectors. And better still as contacts and networks increase so does the recruitment consultants earnings.

I felt compelled to write this article after being approached just yesterday by a recruitment consultant who has notched up 18 months in temporary recruitment. She did very well, earning a £20K bonus on top of her basic salary of £15K and is now on the lookout for a job that pays a better basic – around the £20K mark. She’s in a great position to ‘think big’. Any recruitment director, like myself would consider her a great candidate as very profitable, good recruitment consultants aren’t easy to find – and there are definitely big money recruitment jobs to be found. With her good track record and another 12 months experience this time in permanent recruitment she will be well on her way to landing a recruitment job in a sector that pays big money – and let’s face it, it’s exactly the same job with much fatter fees!

As I pointed out at the beginning not everyone is suited to recruitment jobs. However if you are and you’re also good at what you do, there are boundless opportunities for you to take advantage of. It’s a fabulous career with the potential of earning really good money after just a little clear thinking in the early stages of selecting a job.

Hope you do well.

John Bult runs an internet job site for people in the recruitment industry in the UK

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