How do you work best with your recruiter?

How do you work best with your recruiter?
Here at p2p it comes down to our “One Concept – Knowing” Knowing where you as an individual are heading but also what our clients are looking for. Recruitment agencies can give candidates the upper edge in the market. We know the know.

Working with a leader in the market can make all the difference. Recruiters have an insight to what is up and coming, roles and opportunities that aren’t listed and how the market is tracking.

Here’s how to build and work best with your recruiter.

There are a few common areas that will build a foundation to your working relationship with your recruiter. Commitment, transparency, and trust is the groundwork that will build on your experience with an agency recruiter, create long lasting relationships and potentially result in the circle effect (placed candidate becomes hiring manager)

Commitment
Commitment to an assignment. This is something that they we really stress. Working as a temp recruiter, our desk is forever changing. Multiple roles come across our desk daily, it is important for us to speak and connect with our candidates about commitment.  When having this conversation with your recruiter they want to hear that when you accept a role you will see it out to the end of that timeframe, this could be a few days to 12 months or more. The more reliable you are to the agency you are working with, the more opportunities that will come your way.

If the commitment to the assignment can’t be seen through, it is highly important to have this conversation as early in the process as possible. This helps build trust with your agency and allows for a transparent conversation. Expectations can be made clear, and in some cases, clients might be able to work with “your” commitment.

Transparency
The term transparency means, “Transparency is the quality or state of being transparent. It is perhaps most commonly used in a figurative way to refer to a state in which things are free from any attempt to hide something.”

In the life of a recruiter, being transparent is key. Not only form client to consultant but candidate to consultant, and vice versa.

It’s important to understand the role end to end for your agency to recruit the position and if any changes are made to the role, i.e., position duties and responsibilities, timeframe or salary, these need to be made clear as it could potentially widen the candidate pool.

Trust
Communication: It is important to be open in your communication, what you are looking for? Salary expectations? Goals? And previous work history.

Honesty
It is best to be upfront, honesty creates a stronger working foundation. It allows both recruiter and candidates to understand the process and have a clear direction. When first meeting your recruiter you want to be transparent about what you are looking for, role types, salary expectation and if you are working with other agencies