Sharing a gem I gleaned from the ERE Recruiting Leadership Forum this morning, a posting by Nicole Cox, Director of Recruiter Network Quality at Decision Toolbox about the ten criteria she uses to choose a good recruiter:
1. Tenacity
2. Strong communication skills
3. Ability to set expectations with the client and candidate
4. Ability to push-back on requirements
5. Confidence…they may not be an expert in the industry, but they are confident and take the expert posture in recruitment with the client..they are in the trenches and have the market intelligence…so, do they have the analytical skills to translate this into solutions for the client? (especially important in a tight candidate market)
6. Ability to build relationships for business expansion
7. Solutions driven
8. Helps to be money motivated too
9. Inquisitive nature
10.Instinct
I like these quite a bit. I don’t know that these are in her order of importance, but if I were to order it, I would place seven above three, knowing that a solution-minded recruiter will perform the other tasks with a win-win mindset, which seems like a silver-lining in a personality that smooths over many otherwise rough edges.
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