☀️🌈 Ups and Downs of a Recruiter - How do you balance the pros and cons of your job?

❓Nicole - You must make a lot of money. I heard my company pay you 3 months of my salary!

❓Nicole - Your job seems easy. All you do is to send a CV and get the commission.

❓Nicole - Your job is so chill. You are drinking coffee with your candidate or nice wine with your client. 

For people outside my industry, they think being a recruiter is easy and fun.

It is true that

🥳 We make decent commission but it is not 3 months of a candidate's salary. That 3 months all go to our company and our company will further split to us. 

If I really get 3 months for each placement, I think I would have retired now..🤣

🥳 We meet a lot of candidates and clients every week to know about the job market movement.

It's interesting to find out who got promoted, which department would expand or shrink, which market is doing good.

🥳 We celebrate with good food and drinks whenever we make a placement with the candidate. Some of my nice candidates would even write me a thank you card or gift. I really treasure our relationship! 

But do you also know that

🎯 Recruitment is a sales job...We need to meet our sales target to cover our own costs. If we do not cover our cost for more than 9 months, we are out....

2) 🎯 We always need to make BD calls to ask clients whether they wish to hire. 

90% of the time, the clients reply that they don't use recruiters at the moment. 

You need to have high EQ to move on from the constant rejections.

☎️ Whenever we call/message candidates, some will ignore us or just hang up on our calls... and ghost us...

☎️ Some even think my direct line is a spam call....

☎️ Some candidates even disappear after we arrange an interview for them and their client and we need to think of a reason to explain to the client without destroying the long term relationship...

Imagine you asked a girl for a dinner date, she said yes. When you arrived at the restaurant, she never appeared and when you messaged her, it's one tick. That's how I felt when my candidate ghosted me 🤣

✅ So whenever people ask how come I am always so positive, I think it's partially because of the recruitment training over the past few years 🤣

✅ Also because I enjoy my job. The Ups of my job > the downs of my job

💌 How about you?

💌 How do you handle rejections at work?

💌 Have you compared the ups and downs of your current role?

💌 How do you be a Top Sales in your industry?