Recruiters find and coordinate with qualified applicants for any open positions. They review resumes, focusing on skills, expertise matching up best to the requirements and interview candidates until they find the perfect match, employer looking for.
A good recruiter remembers small, positive details from their interactions with their rejected applicants and uses them to add a personal touch to their communication. They highlight candidates’ strengths and may even suggest other jobs they would be suitable for. And they stay in touch for future openings.
Signs of a great recruiter:
- Listening Skills: Pay attention. Give the speaker your undivided attention, and acknowledge the message. Show that you are listening. Provide feedback of the communication. Defer judgment. Respond Appropriately.
- Confidence: Feeling sure of yourself and your abilities — not in an arrogant way, but in a realistic, secure way. Confidence isn’t about feeling superior to others. It’s a quiet inner knowledge that you’re capable.
- Marketing Skills: A great recruiter must have Creativity , Research, Communication, Analytical and critical thinking, Collaboration mindset.
- Target Driven: One or many goals designed to help your organization, achieve the desired result.
- Relation Building Skills: working to build or maintain ethical relationships or networks or contacts with people who are, or may be, potentially helpful in achieving work-related goals and establishing advantages. This could be people inside or outside the organization, stakeholders, clients, colleagues or others.
- Communication Skills: The act of giving, receiving, and sharing information — in other words, talking or writing, and listening or reading. Good communicators listen carefully, speak or write clearly, and respect different opinions.
- Multitasking skills: can take place when someone tries to perform two tasks simultaneously, switch . from one task to another, or perform two or more tasks in rapid succession.
- Time management Skills: process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. It involves of various demands upon a person relating to work, social life, family, hobbies, personal interests, and commitments with the finite nature of time.
- Patience: Remain calm and not become annoyed in tough, difficult situations.
- Speed: Quickly communicate the information and closing the tasks.
- IT & Social Media Skills: Well versed with different social media platforms and engaged in different social networks.
- Positive Body Language: Affirmative language must be there, which reflects in physical behaviors, express or convey information.
- Problem Solving Attitude: Who can Define The Problem , analyze it, can develop Potential Solutions , evaluate the possible options, implement the solution, measure the outcomes.
- Reliability: Be a trustworthy personal towards the candidate and employer.
- Team Working Skills: Communication is the foundation of effective teamwork. Addition to this Time management, Critical thinking, Collaboration skills must include.
- Leadership Skills: Not verbally but in action shows the way of leading a group of people or an organization.
- Learning Attitude: Learning leads to change, which occurs as a result of experience and increases the potential for improved performance and future learning. So it is very essential to be a great recruiter.
- Motivational Skills: allow leaders to bring positivity and set clear goals for organization. Motivated leaders can effectively communicate requirements and make decisions for the team.
