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1-Listening Skills:
It is important to be a great listener.
2-Confidence:
You need to be confident not just about yourself but also about the services you offer to your clients, companies as well as jobseekers.
3-Marketing Skills:
Knowing how to market and promote your services, expertise and knowledge effectively to clients and candidates is of utmost importance.
4-Relationship building skills:
A recruiter works in the “people business” and deals with a variety of different people on a daily basis. This person has to be a good connector, who loves to meet new people and knows how to use every opportunity to network and to turn it into business results.
5-Communication Skills:
Working in the “human resource” business requires from a recruiter to be a great communicator, no matter whether face to face, on the phone or via email. If things don’t turn out positively for a jobseeker than being straightforward is not always the right strategy in this case.
Since you deal with companies and candidates on a daily basis you will need to juggle multiple projects and tasks simultaneously. Keeping in mind the details of various jobs, companies and candidates is important in order to work efficiently as well as effectively.
6-Time Management Skills:
Having great time management skills is essential because certain positions need to be filled urgently and getting your priorities right is paramount.
7-Patience:
Sometimes you will need to be very flexible and patient because candidates or clients might want to reschedule their interview dates in the last minute.
8-Speed:
Companies and jobseekers don’t just rely on one source for filling their positions or finding a job but multiple sources. Who acts quickly will therefore win in the end. The worst that can happen is that in the last minute a company might tell you that they already found a candidate or the candidate already found a job in another organization.
9- Tech-Awareness
With the number of social networks that exist today, not only do recruiters have to have accounts on each, they have to be savvy enough to find talent on these platforms
10-Body Language Skills:
Being able to interpret other peoples’ body language can be very beneficial because you will understand quicker how people feel and what they think without them telling you.
11-Problem solving skills:
You need to be a good problem solver because you might face situations which you never thought would come along the way. For example, people not turning up to their interviews, companies telling you that they already found another candidate, not finding any candidates for a certain position for a long time, etc.
12-Reliability:
If you want to be perceived as a trustworthy professional you need to be reliable when it comes to punctuality, offering the services you promised within a certain timeframe etc. If you can’t keep up with small things nobody will trust you and offer you bigger challenges in the future.
13-Team working Skills:
Sometimes you need to lead a team of other recruitment consultants or you need to work in a team in order to find the best candidate for a high caliber company. Knowing how to manage people in order to achieve a set goal is important; good communication between all team members will guarantee that misunderstandings and inefficiencies will be avoided.
