Any staffing agency business is dependent, to a large extent, on the individual recruiters who are part of the team. In most cases the sum total of the performance of recruiters is the performance of the company. That’s why when you are hiring recruiters for your staffing company you have to extra careful to hire the right professional who display the optimum mix of professionalism, domain expertise and experience.
In this blog we take a look at some of the traits that will help you identify star recruiters-in-the-making for your staffing agency.
1. Great listening skills
This is one of the most important traits to look for in a recruiter. If the recruiters are able to listen properly to the candidates and clients, it would help them to find the best candidate for your clients for a given role. While interviewing the person, watch out for the listening skills. If they are good at listening and are able to take quick decisions based on it, it will help them consistently place the right candidate to your clients.
2. Excellent communication skills
This is really a no brainer. Since your recruiters will have to communicate with candidates and clients on a daily basis through multiple channels, they have to be excellent at both written and verbal communication. They should keep the candidates well-informed throughout the hiring process and maintain healthy relationships with the clients, which will help to grow your staffing business.
3. Good at handling pressure
Recruitment has become very competitive now with the scenario being candidate-driven and the emergence of gig economy. It becomes very important to select a recruiter, who can work under pressure situations; achieving the target earnings set by your agency. Select an individual who can remain cool under constant pressure to meet the demands of working in a booming industry.
4. Confident
Confidence is one of the key traits to watch out for in the recruiter for your staffing agency. They should have the confidence to meet the requirements of the client and balance it with the needs of the candidate. This particular feat requires lots of confidence in their own abilities. They should be able to judge the confidence level of the candidates. They should be able to evaluate the candidates on the basis of their confidence in themselves and their skill sets. This will make the recruiter select the best candidates with the highest chance of getting selected by the client.
5. Well versed with diversified marketing tactics
Recruiting candidates is not an easy job. It requires a recruiter to use various online marketing tactics to promote their jobs and maximize candidate submissions. Since, the majority of today’s workforce consists of Millennials, who are good at social media usage through mobile devices, it is mandatory for the recruiter selected to be mobile and social media savvy. They should also be well versed with Email marketing and other direct outreach methods.
6. Well-familiarized with the modern staffing agency software
Today, recruiters have to handle multiple tasks in a single day on top of the regular job of connecting with the clients and candidates. They are required to write job descriptions, update multiple client relationship profiles and screen hundreds of resumes. This makes it very important for you to select a recruiter, who is a multitasker, and well-familiarized with a modern recruitment software. A good software can automate and streamline day to day tasks, thus speeding up the hiring process for your recruiters. But this is possible only when all your recruiters are comfortable using a software for their day to day tasks.
7. Possess great time management skills
Apart from being competent in getting the best out of recruitment software, recruiters should be confident of their time management skills. Select a recruiter, who is:
Well-organized
Meticulous about getting the tasks completed
Able to save precious time from the previous schedule to meet the deadlines.
Hiring a recruiter, who values time is a great asset for the staffing agency; as it assists you to get maximum productivity from your agency.
Conclusion
Recruiting the best person is what defines the culture and environment of a staffing agency. Your agency is nothing but a collection of individuals, who are pushing themselves to hire the best and brightest people for your clients, making your business reach new heights. When you select the best recruiters, your task becomes easier as the right recruiters will be able to generate more revenue for you from the candidates selected.
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