How to be a Great Recruiter? (2021)

Recruitment is an essential process for a company to hire the best employees who will work for them.

In order to find the most suitable employees that fit the company’s requirements, the recruiter who is doing the hiring has to be well qualified as well.

A recruiter’s job is to supply his/her respective company with talented employees.

A recruiter’s job requires skills and intuition and these can’t be achieved in one day. It takes years of experience as well as some important key points which I will be discussing below.

There are some important habits a recruiter must pick up or inherit. It makes them great from just ordinary. So here are the important ones -

1. Making it personal 

It falls on you how you will convince the potential recruits into saying yes to an interview with you. You’ll need to make connections that will help you to reach them.

So, you should always try making sure that the vibe you’re giving off or the personality you are showing is honest and genuine.

Getting to know your present and future employees personally falls in the must-know category.

2. Following your calendar 

As a recruiter, your best friend should be your calendar. It means that you’ll have a schedule built around discovering, screening, and appointing suitable candidates.

You might be tempted occasionally to take a break and spend some time away from this hectic life. However, being recruited isn’t an easy task.

Therefore, procrastinating will not help you to progress in your career.

Your schedule needs to be maintained appropriately. And as soon as a task is over successfully you have to follow up on the next one.

3. Emphasis on the candidates 

Your entire job description circles around your ability to recruit candidates. So it’s obvious that your main focus should be on your candidates.

You’ll either be given or you need to make a list of candidates that you’ll need to recruit.

You should always keep in mind that what your job means for these candidates are no less important than how you feel about them.

So focus on getting to know them better. Screen them, profile them, and interview as much as possible through spending time.

4. Work on your outreach 

If your initial outreach towards someone is boring or stiff or maybe a bit too casual, chances are the recruitment might not go so well.

So it’s always a good habit to practice your outreach before putting it in action.

Every candidate is a different individual with different tastes, personalities, and choices.

So your outreach may have to be modified slightly for each individual.

5. Modernizing through tech 

Tech is the new way of life nowadays. It’s a great way to communicate and keep in touch with people. This means it’s a great weapon for recruiters.

A recruiter can simply put up an advertisement on a website and have qualified individuals applying for an interview.

Tech can also help expand a recruiter’s outreach. So it’s a good habit to adopt a tech-savvy life.

6. Knowing the ways of the business 

A good recruiter would know how his/her business works, nook, and cranny.

Knowing the company’s strategies and processes not only helps bring in suitable talents but also helps remedy any problems in the recruitment process without any help from the company.

This shows a recruiter’s capabilities to handle himself and his client which is very important if he wants recognition in this business.

7. Start tracking your efforts 

Knowing is half the battle and it’s even more true in the case of recruiters.

A good recruiter must anticipate how to spend their effort efficiently when coercing a client.

Putting effort in the wrong places is just wasted effort which could be put to better use if you simply keep track of your efforts. 

8. Social Media presence 

Social media is all now and wow these days. Anybody who uses social media and has made a name for themselves is very likely to garner more attention in public.

And attention is a recruiter’s bread and butter. A well-known recruiter has a much better chance at swiping away a talent than a regular recruiter.

So building up a social media presence simply by posting activities, achievements, and things people might find interesting will go a long way towards making you a better recruiter.

9. Turn off the notification bell 

As a recruiter, you’ll constantly be receiving calls, emails, and texts updating you on every small detail of every recruitment in process.

This can quickly become annoying and counterproductive to your work.

So, it’s okay to turn off your notifications or put your phone in silent mode until you’re finished with your work or private time.

10. Don’t focus on the “Nos” 

When you’re going through a screening process, chances are you’ll be focusing on all the negatives of the candidates to screen them out.

This is a bad habit to have simply because not only does it not let you see the unique characteristics of the available candidates but also narrows your viewpoints on the candidate’s capabilities.

A candidate could be very capable and still be screened out simply because of a list of Nos that’s been handed to a recruiter. This should not be the case. 

11. Getting handy with referrals 

Instead of waiting around and slowly building your connections to look for talents, a better way is to take referrals into your own hands.

You could try asking people you know or just look people up through referrals given by others. Proactivity is the key to becoming a good recruiter.

So you must always be on your feet getting handy with searching for talented candidates.

12.  Building up a reputation 

When all is said and done and you’re on your way to becoming a better recruiter, you should always prioritize your reputation over all else.

A reputed recruiter has a dominating presence and thus a better chance at swiping up talents.

Reputation also makes the job a lot easier by automatically drawing attention towards you and letting you make deals easier.