Recruitment can often be an overlooked career choice. A profession of rich reward and plentiful challenge; massively engaging and satisfying. No two days the same. Never a clock watched. It’s a core commercial function with success determined by hard work, relationships, commitment and design. Sitting on a bed of communication, creativity, problem solving and organisation.
Among good recruiters, the core skills are weighted variously. But once you leverage your strongest suit, develop the rest to good standard and adhere to a long-proven process, the potential payout is vast – and profitable. Recruiting for marketers, with my own background in public relations, I know there are huge similarities between the disciplines. Regarding recruitment and PR, here it is laid out, like for like –
These networks include media/online/social/political. It also incorporates the following:
These networks kinclude clients/candidates/commercial contacts. It also incorporates the following:
For me, this is just an interesting comparison that may be new insight for others. It introduces a bit about the recruitment route for those who ever wondered, especially those coming from marketing or PR backgrounds.
It’s food for thought, useful for a future conversation or to fuel a career advice session with family or friends, or yourself. If you’d like to discuss your career, get in touch today – I welcome your contact by phone at +353 1 632 5043 or by email at louise.oreilly@recruiters.ie.
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Louise O’Reilly is an associate principal marketing recruitment consultant at RECRUITERS.
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