How To Get The Best From Your Recruiter
Have you had a bad experience with a recruiter? Have you had an obstructive experience with a recruiter? Or have you never engaged with a recruiter at all?
Whilst it is a recruiter’s job to collect vital information and manage a process effectively, a two-way understanding of how the recruiter can best represent you, aiding and influencing your process, is beneficial to securing your dream job.
In this article, we will look into the useful information you can provide your recruiter with, as well as the roles of collaboration when moving through an interview process.
Useful Information To Give Your Recruiter
When first speaking to a recruiter, it can be normal to be reserved, or apprehensive about discussing leaving a position, your previous work responsibilities and what you are looking for in a new position.
When telling a recruiter about your experience, buzz words, durations, and certifications are initially useful. If you are a Salesforce Developer with 5 years of experience including Lightning, Lightning Web Components, Apex, Sales Cloud, and Marketing Cloud, that is useful information to give the recruiter. You should also let the recruiter know your preference within the tech stack, what you enjoy, and don’t enjoy, and where your strengths are.
Possibly the most important information to relay to your recruiter is your motivation for a new position. What makes you enthusiastic about a company, what culture do you enjoy, is progression important to you, the scope for progression, salary? All of these are important factors to a recruiter being able to deliver you the best service.
Remember that the recruiter is there to work with you, it benefits a recruiter to provide the right opportunity to the best fitting candidate that will retain within the position for a long time.
How to Liaise With Your Recruiter During The Interview Process
Whilst integrated within an interview process, it can be intuitive to focus on the process and wonder what value a recruiter can add at this stage. Keeping communication strong with your recruiter allows you to navigate the process with all of your questions and potential concerns being addressd.
Firstly, it can often be easier to express concern around the company, job itself, or hiring managers to a 3rd Party. Relaying any questions or concerns to your recruiter will allow them to liaise with the hiring company, so the concerns can be addressed, and ideally resolved, in the following interview.
If the concerns are not addressed or resolved, it can become something that can disrupt a new position, or hinder you from accepting what could be your ideal position. It is also important to identify that goalposts can move throughout a process on both ends, salary expectations, role responsibilities, budgets. If the recruiter can keep these expectations clear and transparent throughout the process, you will have a smoother path to attain your dream job.
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