A recruiter is a recruiter who works as an intermediary between employers and job seekers. He works in the human resources department of an organization or in a recruiting agency.

What does a recruiter do? Usually this specialist not only looks for candidates for a specific position, but also analyzes their professional characteristics and studies the extent to which their skills, abilities, and achievements match the company’s profile in order to optimize its work.

Personal qualities
This work requires constant interaction with a large number of people in order to identify the most suitable candidates. This is why a specialist in the field of recruitment must have a balanced character, be morally stable and, perhaps most importantly, be able to assess objectively. Impartiality and the ability to identify in a person the potential that the company needs – this is what should be inherent in a specialist. A professional recruiter must also have the necessary knowledge in the psychology of communication and business etiquette.

It is also possible to get a job as a recruiter if you have a psychological or philological education, which helps the specialist in interaction with people.

Pros and cons of the recruiter profession

Pros of
Decent salary
Constant personal development.
Making lots of new acquaintances
Improvement of psychology skills

Cons
High psychological burden
Possibility of stressful situations
Unpredictable nature of the recruiting process

Careers. Places of employment
Recruiters work, as a rule, either in the personnel departments of organizations or in specialized recruiting agencies.

Professional recruiters distinguish between the areas of internal and external recruiting. Work in the field of internal recruiting assumes selection of personnel for the needs of their own company, and external recruiting – this is primarily consultations and knowledge of the labor market.

Related professions
With the development of the Internet, a profession such as online recruiter emerged. The scope of work of the online recruiter is the search for candidates on the Internet – on the pages of specialized websites, blogs, social networks and other social media.

Recruiting has some similarities with the professional activities of a manager and a marketer. It is not without reason that representatives of all these professions receive higher education, as a rule, in the same or related faculties.

A manager is a specialist who is engaged in managing a certain structure or division of an organization in accordance with his or her functional responsibilities.

Marketer – a specialist in the field of market activities, developing a strategy for the promotion of goods on the market and engaged in the optimization of the company’s activities.