The recruiter’s job is to acquire talented workforce for his clients. So, if the recruiter cannot communicate his achievements, personality and skills for candidates, he will lose out heavily. The task of a recruiter is not easy and he will need to establish his own brand image to get faster and better responses and ratings. Watch this Video

Worship LinkedIn Goddess

To create a formidable brand image on LinkedIn, you will need to post an impressive profile picture. You will need a descriptive but short and catchy headline since this will act as your mission statement. The profile summary you write will showcase your passion and reflect your aspirations. The profile is meant to be more than simply a resume; it should be interactive, informative offering useful content to readers. Candidates will be impressed when they realise you have a lot of expertise in the field. You can even display positive feedbacks from your past candidates to build credibility. You should request for endorsements of your skills from your connections.

Work Hard Not too Long

To manage your time better, it is important to work harder for shorter spells. This would lead to better productivity instead of spending long hours thinking about the output. So, when you have decided to meet a client, it is a good practice to prepare an agenda beforehand. This will include key points that need to be discussed and will help you achieve your targets. You will be amazed at the productivity levels and impressed with the positive outcome of this effort.

Morning is for Hard Tasks

It is important for a recruiter to plan his work in advance and follow it. Procrastination can be highly counterproductive; so, it is recommended that you finish your tasks in hand first. You need to meet your candidates and clients as planned. You must also maintain separate time periods for responding to email queries and returning calls. The trick is to work according to the plan instead of wasting time and energy, reacting to problems as and when they occur. When you can get your scheduled work done, you are free to handle other issues. The best way to get these out of the way quickly is to utilise your work mornings for the tougher tasks. When the more pressing tasks are taken care of, you can be confident of dealing with the less-critical ones. It is advisable to also plan your induction process at the time of recruitment. This will give you adequate time to manage even those small tasks of recruitments.

Hate it but Estimate Value of Your Candidates

You need to evaluate your candidate’s worth to decide which ones you should be investing your time and energy on. So, those who are prompt in returning calls and making themselves available for interviews are preferred. You should check if the candidate in question is working only with you. He should be prepared for a career change and open to starting a new job right away. He should be easily accessible and willing to take advice from you. This exercise will help you choose the right candidates for the right clients since better clients will demand more from you. It will also help you to decide if you want a full time or a part time candidate depending upon the value he is bringing to the table. You can rate your clients on the basis of their work incentives, retention rates and promotion requirements to find the best ones.

Be a Spider Network

To make your recruitment ordeals lesser, you should build a powerful network of your current and prospective clients. You can keep in touch with clients who have been satisfied with your work and job-seekers whom you may have successfully placed in the past. This will ensure that they remember you when they are looking for a change again.  This is also a way in which you will be able to hire a diversified set of people, which can bring so many new ideas to the table. Social networking is helpful as is participation in events when it comes to getting quality candidates perfect for client requirements.

Have a Thick Skin

You have to be prepared to accept failures on your path. This is because recruitment is really a profession which is all about managing relationships with unknown products. Every candidate is unique and different from another.  Rejections are common and there may be a phase when you fail to get results in spite of your best efforts. What is important at this stage is to fight back. You need to keep a positive frame of mind and work persistently. Success is only possible when you are patient and work in a proactive manner.

Listen

When you are in the recruitment profession, your task is to listen to both job-seekers and clients. When you listen carefully, you can correctly understand what they need. The more you can listen to them attentively, the more information you can get out of them. This information will automatically allow you to find the best match. You can make a decision better and you will meet with success in all your efforts. Simply because you may have earlier hired a candidate for a specific role does not mean that some other client will have the same requirements for that role.

You need to ask questions

To make your work less stressful as a recruiter, your job is to ask enough questions to get more information from the candidates and clients. You must, of course, know which questions to ask. It would be a mistake to stop yourself from asking more questions if you feel that you need more information to make a better decision. Video interviews are often encouraged in situations when conducting face-to-face interviews may be costly.