So you’re considering starting a career in recruitment or sales? With thousands of companies offering various roles across the city Spencer Harrington want to help you understand just where your skills and personality are going to be best suited. We’ve summarised each of the main career paths below, but if you have any further questions then why not pick up the phone now and speak to one of our friendly and knowledgeable consultants today…
What is Recruitment?
Recruitment is a sales orientated career where success is rewarded by high earnings and an accelerated career progression. Explained simply Recruitment involves the matching of your client’s staffing requirements to the pool of labour in the market in order to fill a vacancy. For each placement the Recruitment firm will charge a set fee or a percentage of the individual’s first year salary, through which the Recruitment Consultant will earn a set commission.
New graduates will usually start as a Resourcer (only dealing with candidates) or a Trainee Graduate Recruitment Consultant. Once you have achieved your targets you will then begin to deal with your own clients, developing relationships and eventually will be managing the whole recruitment process from start to finish. From this point onwards the sky is the limit and you could even be at Director Level within 5 years.
Why Choose Recruitment?
Recruitment consultancy is fast becoming a first-choice career option for graduates. The UK recruitment industry is the largest in Europe and is currently worth £25billion. Successful consultants can enjoy fantastic salaries and benefits that hugely outweigh most of their grad-scheme counterparts.
As such a huge industry ranging from fast-paced, sales focused contingency recruitment to the research-driven, intellectually stimulating retained search we have tried to make your understanding of the industry as simple as possible by breaking it in to its three simplest components; Contingent, Headhunting and Executive Search.
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What is Sales?
Sales is often dismissed by graduates due to a string of common myths associated with what constitutes a great sales person. Among these concerns are that you need to be aggressive, have the gift of the gab and be able to leave your morals at home. However each one of these points is easily countered; the best sales people are listeners, not talkers; aggression turns most consumers off, it’s more important to be sympathetic; and lying is not a solid basis for gaining the trust of your clients and will ultimately lead to failure.
Why Choose Sales?
Sales offers a unique career with fantastic rewards, dynamic environments and awesome career prospects. Most sales roles will start with a predominantly telephone based role, while you’re learning a new skill and market product, and can then develop in to a number of other careers dependent on your preference. We have outlined some of the potential career opportunities below;
