All jobs come with challenges and perks, let’s share the biggest traits that shape successful recruiters.

It takes a type of person to be a great recruiter.

Here are three pillars that catapult a recruiter to a whole new level.

 

RESILENCE 

Russell Drinkwater, Director, says that resilience is the hidden trait that you’ll never find in a job description. “This is when you face one potential knockback after the other and then rebound quickly. If you don’t have this in abundance, you won’t be in recruitment for long. We all have to keep going.”

Resilience pointers:

• Have your team around you to share and be open with, we can’t bottle it all up
• We all have to look after ourselves (from exercise, food, sleep, to just being happy)
• A lot of recruitment is completely out of your control. Recruiters support people, we’re not surgeons
• It’s all going to be ok. Maybe you lost a candidate who decided to stay, but the next opportunity is around the corner

 

PROCESSES

Jack Bond, Director, recognises that when there is a structure to follow, you don’t need to overcomplicate, “Understanding a process is critical. It’s the steps and framework that support everything a recruiter does. For instance, for the trades and labour team it could start on site and find the contact of the decision makers to reach out to.

“It’s about having priorities in the right order, so you have a system that you repeat. Recruitment is a numbers game, the more you put in, the more you get out. It becomes the guide.”

Process pointers:

• The order you follow is important to your success
• Get it right, you scale your efforts
• You put your bets on people, so you need a formula behind it
• From job descriptions to sourcing candidates, to references it all follows part of a structured plan

 

CONSISTENCY

Jason Drinkwater, Director, believes that a work engine and being tuned into what’s around you, is what can become a recruiters biggest asset, “Consistency is so important, it’s how people succeed in this industry. It could be a good work ethic you keep to, or a will to be the best at your job. It’s the traits you come back to again and again.”

The famous quote from Denzel Washington is so true, Without commitment, you’ll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish.’

Consistency pointers:

• it pays to spend the day on what matters
• You need to be consistent with clients/candidates and how to communicate/deliver
• Consistency becomes a baseline to work to (so you can succeed)
• It develops self-control and also helps build trust

 

Recruiting today comes with many challenges, but it’s the focus in place that overcomes the hurdles presented.