Recruitment agency jobs

In smaller more specialist agencies, often referred to as ‘boutique’ recruitment agencies, everyone needs to be a fee earner and as such all the roles are recruitment consultants each with varying added responsibilities to help run the business.

As the size of agency increases, the more the recruitment process is broken down into components, each of which can constitute different jobs. Here are some of the main titles to be found for recruitment agency jobs in larger companies.

Recruitment resourcer jobs

A large success factor in recruitment agency jobs is the ability to establish a large enough pool of potential candidates to ensure you have a winner within that pool for any given job. Simply selecting one candidate off your database is rarely enough. To increase your chances of making placements, you need to follow several pathways to collect your candidate pool such as

 
a) Searching your own database

b) Searching the database of jobs boards

c) Advertising the vacancy in a variety of places

d) Seeking referrals from known candidates

e) Offering a bounty to candidates who find and refer other candidates who get placed.

Amongst others, these are the ways in which a resourcer will build a prospect list for the recruitment consultant. Once the candidate’s availability and interest has been established by the resourcer, the final candidate shortlist can passed to the consultant to arrange interviews.

A resourcer is one the few recruitment agency jobs which may have a bonus structure based upon the number of people they successfully source who get placed. In many large companies, a resourcing job can serve as an apprenticeship before moving on to the recruitment consultant’s role or other recruitment agency jobs.

Business Development jobs

The ability to generate a good spread of vacancies to work on is another key success factor in recruitment agency jobs. The larger the pool of jobs, the more chance of you having a vacancy for a particular active candidate on your database. There’s nothing more frustrating than having an excellent candidate but no vacancy to submit them too. All that you know then is that some other agency will be making a fee out of them!

So, the role of the business development job is to generate vacancies through managing the client end of the business. In this role, your task is to maintain client relationships to ensure a constant stream of new vacancies. In addition the role requires the business developer to seek out new clients to generate new revenue streams. This is required not only to generate business growth, but also to plug the gaps which open up when clients are inevitably lost form time to time.

Recruitment consultant jobs

In a large organisation, recruitment consultant jobs focus upon dealing candidates to select shortlists to present to the client, and of course, dealing with the recruiting manager to secure interview slots for candidates. Initially, the recruitment consultant will screen potential candidates by telephone before selecting a group to see face to face. Once a final short list has been selected for presentation to the client, the recruitment consultant needs to ensure the candidates are properly prepared to attend interviews.

Recruitment manager jobs

Recruitment manager jobs are a pivotal role in amongst all other recruitment agency jobs. The manager will have a target that reflects the sum of all individual targets and will require the coordination of resourcers, business developers through to recruitment consultants to achieve the overall task of making placements.

Typically, a recruitment manager will have been a successful recruitment consultant who has the right skills and traits to manage a team of people. In addition, a recruitment manager may continue to handle some recruitment for senior positions or perhaps manage the client relationships with the biggest clients.

Recruitment marketing jobs

Success in recruitment agency jobs requires a broad range of advertising. There is no one place where a recruitment agency can place adverts and make all of their placements, success really does require a wide mix of advertising. In larger companies, the way in which they distribute their advertising spend may have a large bearing upon their success. Most recruitment sectors are offer a minefield of paper publications and internet jobs sites as options to advertise for their candidates.

The role of the recruitment marketing job is to ensure the effective distribution of advertising funds for optimum results. This requires making assessments of potential advertising mediums before committing to contracts as well as accurate assessment of the mediums once selected on an ongoing basis to try and establish the most profitable way to spend advertising budget.

To enter recruitment marketing you may have experience as a recruitment consultant and perhaps some additional marketing experience, or a qualification such as a marketing diploma.

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