18-10-2013 11:15 AM | ||
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I am a recruiter and I can tell you that a variety of people can do well in this business so you need to find your own style and the niche that works well with your style. For example don't recruit lawyers if you are an aggressive sales person, don't recruit ship brokers if you are not thick skinned. Aside from that to succeed and make a real career of recruitment or headhunting you need to be: 1. Resilient - be able to take rejection, rudeness, failures at the last minute, objections. You can't take things personally. You need to be able to pick yourself up and get back on the phone ASAP. 2. Resourceful - it's a competitive market. You need to stand out to get business and you only have a small window of a person's time to convince them to engage with you. 3. Perseverance - recruitment and headhunting is not rocket science. The longer you stick with it, the better you get at it and the more money you make. 4. Connections - if you want to make money in recruitment or headhunting it's about who you know. Start your career with a company that will invest in your training and connect you with everyone who counts in the market you are active in. It pays to stick around for a few years at lower pay and then take that to a smaller firm where you can cash in on your skills and connections, because the commission structure is always better in smaller firms. Also news flash: every recruiter has to do some headhunting. Every head hunter has to earn some bread and butter doing some recruitment. Unless you have worked for a top tier bank / law firm / audit firm don't bother applying to H&S Egon Zehnder or MLA. Stick to the high street 4 MP, RW, RH or Hays. They provide excellent training for graduates. Good luck. |
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08-10-2013 04:42 PM | ||
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What does it take to be a good recruiter? I understand its a sales job. But what type of personality will suit the job? And what's the starting pay in Recruitment? |
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04-09-2013 06:45 PM | ||
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Tier 2 are the ones who deal with middle to mid-senior managers like Morgan Mckinley, Hudson etc. with annual packages of ~200-400k. Tier 1 is of course those 3 famous ones that were mentioned earlier who deal with executives which mainly command >400k and sometimes can go up to multi-million dollar package. |
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04-09-2013 03:25 PM | ||
Unregistered | You must be joking. Most mid-senior executives in MNCs are making 300-500k basic, I hardly even see a job from Robert Walters that exceeds 250k. At best they are merely outsourcing vendors that deal with middle level managers. | |
04-09-2013 02:29 PM | ||
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Robert Walters, Robert Half, they do mid-senior executive search. It's just different. |
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12-07-2013 03:24 PM | ||
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Yes, they are the energy recruitment company. Can recruitment really earn 5 figure? |
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11-07-2013 01:16 PM | ||
Unregistered | Anyone heard of SPENCER OGDEN LTD? | |
03-07-2013 04:27 PM | ||
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Probably he just wants to know like entry level for HH and all. For my side, i think it starts off around basic about 2.5-3k for fresh grad, quotas to hit and commission according to the level of your bill rate. |
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01-07-2013 03:43 PM | ||
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i'll be worried if u were my "recruitment agent"! |
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01-07-2013 12:07 PM | ||
Unregistered | basic abt 4k, commission depends but for newcomers mostly 3-5k per mth | |
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