Looking For Your Next Recruitment Role? Focus On The 4 Cs
The rewards available for successful recruiters mean that it’s one of the most popular and sought after careers. If you’re looking for your next role in recruitment, you are going to be up against some serious competition. For this reason, it’s vital to have a plan of action. Focus on the 4 Cs, and you’ll find that your dream job is within your grasp.
Contacts
If you’re an experienced recruiter, your contacts alone should be enough to get an interview. Your contacts are a valuable resource, so ensure that they are not just names, phone numbers and email addresses. If that’s all you have, what’s to stop an unscrupulous company taking you on, exploiting your contacts and then getting rid of you? Stop thinking contacts and start thinking relationships. Talk to them. Interact with them. Help them out. Do this and they’ll become associates, even friends. You’ve no longer got contacts, but a powerful, desirable and effective network.
Are you a credible candidate for your next recruitment role? In many ways, your credibility is the sum of all the other criteria mentioned in this article. But it’s more than that. Do you come across as someone who really wants this job, and relishes the challenges involved? Do you look like someone who would fit into this role? Are you smart, articulate and dynamic? Ultimately, are you someone this company can trust 100% and put their faith in to drive their business forward? If you’re not portraying credibility in the application and interview process, then you will not be successful.
Competence
Are you a competent recruitment consultant? You may look the part, act the part and talk the talk, but can you actually do the fundamentals? The basic skills in recruitment are the most important. Can you plan your day effectively? Can you execute good business development calls? Can you juggle everything that a busy recruitment desk can throw at you and still provide unbeatable client and candidate care? However good a recruiter you are, there will inevitably be times when you will be up against it. It is in these testing times that a good grounding in the basics is key to survival.
Communication
Recruitment is about people, and communication is one of the fundamental skills you need. Whether it’s talking to potential clients, candidates or business associates or drafting job adverts, crisp, clear and compelling communication is key. Failure to get the important messages across in a job application or interview is an indication that you’re probably not going to be an effective communicator in the role. If you really want to give yourself the best chance, don’t just focus on written and verbal communication. Your body language portrays so much more. Focus on coming across more confident and dynamic and you will reap the rewards.
Focussing on the 4 Cs will not only make it easier for you to land that dream job, but you will also find yourself developing into not just a better recruitment consultant, but an all-round better business professional.
Till next time,
Cheryl