Considering a career in Recruitment..

universe777

I am considering a career in Recruitment,in one of the top agencies in Dublin.
Has anyone got any advice,pro's/con's,or experiences of working as a Recruitment Consultant?

Lemlin

I did HR and business in college and went for an interview with a well-known recuitment agency a while back. I was very surprised by what they offered. I thought that, as a consultant, I'd be helping people out and moving between employers and potential employees.

However, what they actually wanted me to do was sit at a desk all day ringing people from the phone book and trying to get 50 people onto their books each day. Be careful of what the job description is would be my advice.

I've looked at alot of jobs in recruitment agencies and sometimes consultant means anything but.

ToxicPaddy

DONT DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only joking!!!

I looked into this a few years back as I knew one of the directors of a recruitment agency and they were looking for a junior recruitment consultant in IT..

Basically this is what they required:

Expected to land at least one job a day, so 5 a week.

To do this, you had to search the database and find at least 20-30 CV's that matched the requirements of the job. Contact all of those people to see if they were job hunting and get updated CV's if they had them. Once that was done, you had to have at least a dozen CV's to send to the company.

To get one job a day, you would on average have to send this to 10-15 companies.. so thats a lot of CV's to plough through and a lot of phone calls and emails.

Personally, HR might be a better route if you'd prefer that sort of thing.

If the economy is doing badly, recruitment is gonna suffer so through natural progression, the recruitment sector is gonna suffer bigtime. Might be worth looking at for the long haul.

Tox