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Human Resources/Recruiting

Accounting Recruiter

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Job Description

Telemarketing 80%, Face to face sales 5%, Interviewing 15%.
Day runs from 7:45 to 6:30, your role is to find clients (think yellowpages) doing some cold calls, get vacancies, find candidates using online and print media, interview these people, and put the right people forward to the client. Courage to make calls and expectation management are the hardest parts of the role. If you can do these, the interviewing/assesment side is a piece of cake.

Pros

Good pay, recruiters get paid about $80-100k, and 60% is salary which makes life a bit easier than commission only. Very social environment, and very engaging. If you are good, you build excellent relationships with clients based on your excellent past work which is nice.

Cons

You become very sales driven as you are pressured to report to management at least twice per week on jobs. I found myself saying things I did not believe - spewing all sorts of lies about jobs to get things across the line. When you take it too far, you lose "candidate control," they won't speak to you, and you are screwed.

Company Size

1000-10,000 employees

Pay Range

$80,001-$90,000

Years in Job

1

Education

Bachelor Degree

City

Perth

State

AL

Human Resources Associate

Job Description

My days are spent in meetings and on the phone. Everyday I get a new question that I haven't heard before so it's definitely a learning experience. I help develop new manager coaching tools and I also speak with a lot of the managers on a day to day basis. Trust me, when you think you've heard it all, you haven't. It's a fun job to be able to support so many different people, but it gets stressful because most of your client base are dissatisfied customers coming to you to fix their problem.

Pros

I love my team. They are so supportive and helpful. I have so many resources I can tap into, making my job that much easier. There are many times when I won't know the answer to a question, but it won't be a problem because I will know exactly where to go to find out. I couldn't ask for better benefits. I work for a well-established company and have fairly solid job security. My group is well-respected and known for giving the best support we can give.

Cons

I deal everyday with a lot of irate employees. Sometimes it's hard to not take things too personally. Things can get a little too routine because I'm consistently running the same reports, keeping track of the same data, and in front of my computer. HR is not a happy world all the time like most people would think. We're the ones who have to deal with dissatisfied employees. People are silent when things are going well, but they sure get loud when something goes wrong. And my phone is ringing off the hook a lot, so you know what that shows.

Company Size

10,000 or greater employees

Pay Range

$50,001-$60,000

Years in Job

2

Education

BA

City

San Francisco

State

CA
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