Recruiting Assistant Job Description
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Recruiting assistants are work as part of the recruitment team supporting and assisting senior recruiters and managers in managing the hiring process to fill open roles for an organization. Recruiting assistants helping the team with identifying potential candidates online and offline, undertake clerical duties and communicate and support hiring managers. They work to support more senior recruiters in writing job descriptions, creating and publishing job ads, evaluating resumes and applications and perform pre-interview screening.
Steps to take to start your career as a Recruiting Assistant and other jobs like it
- Focus on building skills essential for recruiting, including communication, negotiation, and organizational skills. Additionally, familiarize yourself with applicant tracking systems (ATS), recruitment software, and social media platforms used for sourcing candidates.
- Attend industry events, join professional organizations such as the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and connect with other recruiters and HR professionals on LinkedIn and even within your current company. Building a strong professional network can lead to job opportunities and valuable industry insights especially within the recruiting space.
- Earning a bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, psychology, or a related field can provide additional opportunities. This education can help you understand the fundamentals of recruitment and HR practices. Another common path is to move from the specialized field you are interested in recruiting for. Many finance, marketing, or technical people end up as successful finance, marketing or technical recruiters.
- If not coming from the field you’re recruiting for, consider starting in roles that provide exposure to recruitment processes, such as HR assistant, HR coordinator, or sales positions. These roles will help you develop key skills such as interviewing, candidate assessment, and client relationship management.
Recruiter Job Requirements
The requirements to get into recruiting is pretty simple. It's either a college degree or a lot of times folks that don't have college degrees get into the HR space first. Or they work with recruiting teams as far as being a coordinator. And what a coordinator does is they work closely with recruiters like myself to schedule interviews with candidates and really learn the business that way.
How I Got Started In Recruiting
I started originally at a staffing agency and what that means is I was placing people with other companies. I had multiple clients that I would work with and eventually I wanted to go to the other side of it. Working internally as a recruiter, I'm now at a much larger organization in the tech world and I specifically recruit just for this company.
Recruiting Job Duties
The main two stakeholders that I am usually working with are the actual hiring managers for the jobs themselves or candidates that I'm interviewing and that are going through the interview process. A lot of what I do is almost program management, making sure that each individual job that I work on and I work on about 15 at a time has a plan from beginning to end. I get to work with the hiring managers on what do we need to do a little bit differently. How are we going to be a little bit more strategic to make sure that we get the right fit because at the end of the day interviewing and bringing in top talent is a two way street. Not only does it have to be the right fit for us as a company, it has to be the right fit for you as a candidate.
Pros and Cons
There really is no better feeling than calling a candidate to let them know that we would like to give them an offer. One of the cons I would say though is for every position that we do hire, there's a handful of people that unfortunately we don't hire. Having tough conversations with very talented people and very talented candidates can be tough.
What I Enjoy
I really get to combine two things that I love and that is working with all different kinds of people and there's a sales aspect to it even though I am not necessarily a commissioned employee.
But getting to sell candidates on different benefits for certain jobs is something that I really really enjoy and I hope I get to stay here for a long long time.
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- Bachelor of Business Administration (b.b.a.)
- Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Environmental Studies
- Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in University Studies
- Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Criminal Justice
- Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Sociology
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