You’re coming into a new industry. It might be from sales, customer service, or something very foreign. The one thing that ties virtually every job on the planet together is people. Recruitment is the ultimate people position, and one of the ultimate people based challenges. You will be attempting to bring together sets of people with their own agendas, ambitions, skills, values and philosophies.
How you do it is as important as what you do.
INDUSTRY
Our game is technology and more specifically, software. This is nice, because we’re living in the age of software. If you hadn’t noticed this yet, I.T. recruitment may not be for you.
SKILLS
No single task is complex in recruitment. What makes it challenging is that you will have so many tasks to complete daily. The skills you will need to forge range from creative writing, negotiation, listening and questioning (needs analysis), client relationship management (both candidates and hiring managers are clients), business development and a bunch of others.
FIRST 3 MONTHS
We have a thorough, formal training programme that takes approximately 3 months to work through. It is not passive learning. You will be doing the thinking, answering, figuring out and role playing. Simultaneously you will be doing the job of a “Talent Manager”.
The first section of the programme is talent management and takes 6-8 weeks to work through. Then you’ll move on to client side training.
For the first 3 months you will be working on the candidate side, finding and managing talent, filling live positions, learning your niche and developing relationships. Once you pass the client management side of the training programme, demonstrating a core set of basic competencies, you will begin working in the full lifecycle. So at around the end of month 3 you will add business development and client management to what you are already doing. We’ll guide you on time management, strategic selling, market knowledge, search strategies and much more.
NEXT 3 MONTHS
You have started to grasp your niche, the IT industry in general, and what an effective recruitment desk looks like. Now it’s time to apply the lessons and begin to win your own work and fingers crossed, successfully deliver it. We have a service delivery engine in place that will assist you to do this.
During these months you will work closely with your team lead and continue upskilling in the areas you feel need improving. By the end of 6 months you will have a very good idea of what it takes to be successful, you will have filled some positions, and started to understand almost everything your candidates are saying from a technical perspective.
6 MONTHS ONWARDS
If you pass through 6 months, it’s a big pat on the back, as many of your industry peers will have left by this point. Now that you’ve made it this far, it’s head down to crack on with building deeper relationships, broadening your market knowledge and honing your screening and talent management skills.