Looking For Your Next Career Challenge in Recruitment? Why Rec to Rec Could be The Right Move For You!
Recruitment is an exciting, fast paced industry with lots of challenges and opportunities. If you are a recruiter and feel like you want a new challenge after a few years in the same niche, then a good option could be to switch to working as a recruiter for recruiters in a rec to rec environment. Your knowledge and experience can really help you to find the right people for recruitment companies in your specialist area, and help you guide other candidates looking for jobs like yours.
What makes recruitment to recruitment work interesting?
Recruitment to recruitment is a great sphere to move into after a successful period as a recruiter, because it allows you to take your skills to the next level. Everybody you deal with, that is your clients, your colleagues, and the candidates you are trying to place, all live and breathe recruitment, so you need to be at the top of your game. You also get a chance to help people just like you make the right choices when it comes to their own careers. Basically, everything you have learned from your time in the business is useful every day.
How do you move into rec to rec?
Recruitment to recruitment agents are usually people with a good amount of experience in other recruitment fields. Just as recruitment agencies deal with specialist niches, recruitment to recruitment agencies also specialise or have people within their team who specialise in dealing with clients in certain areas. This means if you have spent five years or so working as a recruiter for the financial services industry, the logical move for you would be into handling financial services recruiters as a “rec2rec” agent.
What are the important skills for a recruitment to recruitment specialist to possess?
As you would expect, a lot of the skills required for a successful career in rec2rec are very similar to those needed in any other area of recruitment. This means that as well as a good background in your own recruitment field, you should also be able to demonstrate:
1. Excellent networking skills. You need to be great at building valuable relationships with all of the key people, from recruiters you may want to place (even those who aren’t actively looking for work) to potential clients.
2. Top notch research skills. Finding the meat of what is required for a role and matching it to strong candidates is crucial. So many recruiters in other niches get by keyword searching CVs to find potential matches, but the kind of mistakes this can lead to will be spotted immediately when the people you are dealing with are recruiters themselves.
3. Good time management and organisation skills. You’ll need to stay on top of a lot of roles and a lot of candidates, so it’s vital that you are reliable and organised.
If you are interested in a new challenge that can be rewarding both in terms of money and morale, and you can say you are strong in all of these areas, then recruitment to recruitment is certainly worth your consideration as your next career step!
Cheryl Wing is the Director of GSR2R an award winning Rec 2 Rec company based in Soho London. GSR2R have placed hundreds of candidates in the last 12 years. If you want the help of a respected rec 2 rec agency to help you land a great recruiter role visit their website at http://www.gsr2r.com.