HR Recruiting: The Huge Opportunity For Ambitious Recruiters

As the economy is still buoyant in the UK the outlook for recruitment company growth is still rosy.

It’s often said that recruitment organisations can be the first business sector into a recession and also the first out!

This is the natural cycle of business growth.

Companies might downsize during ‘tough times’ as recruitment is scaled back or stops completely.

As the economy moves out of a recession recruitment increases as companies recruit in preparation to scale again.

Read any good business book and you will know that one of the key factors that impacts company growth is to have the right talent in key positions in an organisation.

Opportunity alert…….

All logical facts aren’t they? This points to the very obvious conclusion that as companies grow so does their HR function.

As a busy rec 2 rec based in our own capitol city we have seen huge growth in the opportunities for HR recruiters.

A number of our own recruitment clients have seen the opportunity available in today’s market and are adding HR as a recruiting sector to their own recruiting offer and services.

In a recent article we posted on why London is a great place to move for your next recruiter role we shared the interesting statistics around the fact that many global organisations have their headquarters in London.

Consequently a company’s HQ will also have a significant HR department #moreplacementstomake.

Human Resources (or HR) is a rich, varied industry with many different roles you can fill as a specialist HR recruiter.

Here are just a few examples:

a. HR Generalist

b. HR Director

c. HR Manager

d. Internal recruitment manager

e. Learning and development manager

f. HR Administrator

g Employee relations advisor

………………….and we have barely scratched the surface.

Specialist HR recruiters are involved in placing all of these roles and many more depending on the size of the company.

The big growth for many recruitment organisations has been to become ‘niche’. In other words to work a specific sector. That might be as an engineering recruitment agency or a media and marketing recruitment company.

As a HR recruiter you get the best of both worlds as you can be niche in a bigger market: All companies except the small SMEs will have a HR function.

What makes a great HR recruiter?

The truth? The same skills that make a great recruiter in any market. There are lots of different articles here on the GSR2R blog about the attributes of a great recruiters.

If recruiting is your passion and you love that feeling of helping someone find  that dream role with a fantastic client, then being a HR recruiter will tick that box; why? Because you will be in the thick of a sector that lives and breathes; career development, advancement and engagement.

Great recruiters, apart from being target driven and focused, also have exceptional relationship building qualities and are great communicators; both key skills recognised and appreciated in the world of HR.

HR is a fascinating topic; hey as human beings we are all different aren’t we?

The good news is you can upskill your knowledge of the area by visiting some of the amazing HR resource blogs out there. HR Zone is a great go to resource as is the people management blog from the CIPD.

Interested to find out more about this recruiting sector and if it’s right for you? Then give us a call at 0203 696 1215.

Until next time

Cheryl and the GSR2R team