Recruitment - Targets versus professionalism

The majority of people coming into the recruitment industry are fresh from university, and while this is not necessarily a bad thing, it does mean that they have limited ‘life’ experience, and with the diversity of companies and candidates that they will be dealing with, I cannot help but think that life experience is an essential thing.

Even those people who come into recruitment with some previous work experience often find the diversity of recruitment a challenge, and the industry has always been hit by high staff turnover often struggling to recruit and retain good staff.

If the emphasis was more on providing a great service to both client and candidate, rather than how many calls, how many interviews, how many visits, and how many placements, then I feel that the industry would not come under the criticism that it often does.

If a true measure of success is to be given, then surely details such as how long a placed candidate stays at a company, how they progress and the impression they make within the business are far better.

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