It’s a push business!  Window of time!  Metrics!  If you want a normal 8-5 job become a receptionist!  Those are all the things that have been ingrained in me for the last six plus years I’ve been recruiting.  But after the daily grind of recruiting day in and day out one comes to realize that the metrics only plays fraction of recruiting.  Recruiting becomes a competition.  Playing sports my whole life what recruiting has done for me is given me an appropriate channel for my competitiveness.  Recruiting most definitely is not for the faint of heart.  There are numbers that have to be put on the board and there are commissions that have to be made and there are bosses that will be over your shoulder.  It is a profession where you are only as good as your latest search, or your latest placement, or your latest submittal.  It is most definitely a “what have you done for me lately” type of business but is that type of business that drives the competitive force that many of these recruiters have, that I have.  That is why I love recruiting.  To be able to keep my mind in “game” shape constantly and not have my sharpness become dull.  Competition can be like a blade, if it is not utilized correctly or often it can become stale or dull.  That is why I love recruiting.