📖 The PathMatch Guide to

Recruiting

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A Day in the Life

Recruiters match qualified candidates to open positions and facilitate the entire interview process between both sides. They can work internally at a company or for recruiting agencies that recruit on behalf of companies. Recruiting agencies often pay Recruiters commission for higher upside potential.

Work Responsibilities

  • Help client organizations recruit the best candidates by matching qualified candidates with open positions
  • Ensure smooth facilitation of end-to-end candidate and client experience and process

Growth Path

  1. Recruiter
  2. Senior Recruiter
  3. Director of Recruiting
  4. VP of Recruiting

Skills You'll Need

  • Ability to leverage tools and technologies
  • Time management, multi-tasking, and organizational
  • Engage passive candidates
  • Analyze people data to drive decisions
  • Advise business leaders and hiring managers
  • Identify and qualify potential candidates
  • Sales and marketing skills
  • Familiarity with ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems)
  • Build strong recruitment strategies to attract, source, recruit, and enable clients to hire the best candidates
  • Develop strong negotiation, communication skills and business development if working for external clients

Industries You'll Work In

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Teams You'll Work With

Recruiting works with internal and external clients, stakeholders, and external recruits

10
/10

Demand for Talent

  • Projected Growth: MASSIVE
  • Current Demand: FIRE (50k+ open positions)
  • Demand for Recruiting professionals has increased 63% in the past 3 years
  • As demand grows and companies shift to become more data-driven, the level of skills required rises as well

Compensation

$45K-$100K+
Recruiter
$50K-$120K+
Senior Recruiter
$90K-$180K
Director of Recruiting
$100K-$300K+
VP of Recruiting
8
/10

Work/Life Balance Score

Work/life balance is when someone equally prioritizes their career and their personal life. This balance can vary greatly from one career to the next.

9
/10

Job Stability Score

Job stability is about more than your experience and career. As industries decline, so do the jobs in them.

8
/10

Prestige Score

Job stability is about more than your experience and career. As industries decline, so do the jobs in them.

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