Aspiring Recruitment Consultant

telestar

telestar

telestar

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I am an aspiring recruitment consultant. I currently work for a business consultancy as a business consultant (basically telesales). I am the longest current serving salesperson at the company and I am also the most highly paid. I have recently been promoted to managing my own team where I am responsible for everything from recruiting to training and mentoring etc.

I have always wanted to be a recruitment consultant. I know being a successful recruitment consultant is hard, very hard, but I don't care I like a challenge as much as anyone and am incredibly money hungry.

My problem is that I don't have a degree and my academic background is not the best. Can I still get into recruitment?

Thanks.
 
telestar said:
I am an aspiring recruitment consultant. I currently work for a business consultancy as a business consultant (basically telesales). I am the longest current serving salesperson at the company and I am also the most highly paid. I have recently been promoted to managing my own team where I am responsible for everything from recruiting to training and mentoring etc.

I have always wanted to be a recruitment consultant. I know being a successful recruitment consultant is hard, very hard, but I don't care I like a challenge as much as anyone and am incredibly money hungry.

My problem is that I don't have a degree and my academic background is not the best. Can I still get into recruitment?

Thanks.
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Welp.
 
telestar said:
I am an aspiring recruitment consultant. I currently work for a business consultancy as a business consultant (basically telesales). I am the longest current serving salesperson at the company and I am also the most highly paid. I have recently been promoted to managing my own team where I am responsible for everything from recruiting to training and mentoring etc.

I have always wanted to be a recruitment consultant. I know being a successful recruitment consultant is hard, very hard, but I don't care I like a challenge as much as anyone and am incredibly money hungry.

My problem is that I don't have a degree and my academic background is not the best. Can I still get into recruitment?

Thanks.
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Short answer: yes. It's a horrible job though. You have to be a shady barsteward to be succesful, with generally accepted tactics along the lines of calling people up, if they're rubbish you pump them for info of their failed interviews, then send your good people to those and make some money. There are plenty of shady rec cons out their waiting to stab you in the back. You can make a fair bit of cash, but it's a soulless and draining job. I have to deal with them every day.

Also, strange first post. Spambot?
 
telestar said:
I am an aspiring recruitment consultant.

My problem is that I don't have a degree and my academic background is not the best. Can I still get into recruitment?

Thanks.
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Ok, thanks for dropping by! Good chat!

e : I didn't make the point I thought I was making so ignore that. It's still a terrible profession to move in to.
 
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Best way to get into recruitment without a degree is to sign up to a random computer overclocking forum, find their "chat about random ****" section, and ask a bunch of randomers in your first ever post.

It never fails to secure you that job in recruitment!
 
You'd have to be tough to be good at it, everyone hates them. We constantly got cold calls from them at our office trying to poach people, the MD takes the calls, leads them on for 30 minutes pretending to be interested in the jobs and then starts to abuse them. Not a fun job I imagine.
 
1st post, on a specialist forum, talking about recruitment. It's not IT recruitment you're longing to break into is it?

NO PROMOTING BUSINESS INTERESTS! :D
 
MickeyFinns said:
You'd have to be tough to be good at it, everyone hates them. We constantly got cold calls from them at our office trying to poach people, the MD takes the calls, leads them on for 30 minutes pretending to be interested in the jobs and then starts to abuse them. Not a fun job I imagine.
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:D Ours get as far as the MD's PA who's a proper old school matron type battle axe, I almost feel sorry for them.
 
It's possible, but I don't know why you'd want to.

99% of them are soulless leeches. No-one truly likes them on a professional level.

They're the buisiness equivalent of jo-vos.
 
As it is a serious post, why do you want to become a recruitment consultant?
Just seems a very strange job to aspire to.
 
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