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Pretty smooth, right? Getting up at 6:30 AM in the morning, prepping up a delicious breakfast, rarin’ to reach the office, slurping a hot cup of cappuccino while making calls to the promising applicants for a brief phone screen and ultimately making them say ‘YES’ to the job offer. Painted a pretty good picture of a day in the life of a recruitment manager, right?
Isn’t that the best thing about a recruitment manager’s life? One can pretty much predict the volume of hiring events and other recruiting activities that will occur during the entire day. It’s also easy to identify the recruiting methods you need to get done, prioritise them accordingly, and then plow candidates through the day & then comes the perfect 'eureka moment of the day' when one finds the crème de la crème talent.
Yeah, right…it happens only in the Recruitment manager’s dreams!
If one is a recruitment manager, their time management, planning, multitasking and organisational skills are tested to the max each and every day.
In fact, it is enough to drive a normal person crazy!
Actually, one of the biggest challenges recruitment managers faces is trying to manage multiple hiring events schedules and accomplishing the "tasks of ensuring efficient access to the right talent" in a work environment of constant change of job requirements, interruptions, firefighting, etc
So, the question is can a recruitment manager have a perfect day in his life? The answer is probably no. However, one can apply the following tactics to inject life into the day-to-day grind of recruiting to become more productive, efficient, and have more fun.
4 revolutionary tips to improve a day in a recruitment manager's life
Recruiting Life Tip 1: Virtual hiring is the future
Remote hiring is here to stay and there’s no looking back! Level up your recruitment game by constantly adapting to technological development. AI and automation are taking the recruitment world by storm and it is imperative for recruiters to get on board. You snooze, you lose.
Recruiting Life Tip 2: Outsource your recruitment service
Let’s face it, it is difficult to search six hundred resumes and find that one right fit for your organisation. It’s time to outsource a part of your recruitment service for attracting, retaining and developing talent. This will help you to focus on key areas of improvising recruitment.
Recruiting Life Tip 3: Brainstorm to face disruption
Take every morning or whenever it will work to force yourself to either do some strategic brainstorming (maybe with a colleague or anyone in office). Just be sure to devote this time to one’s own personal development and growth.
In conclusion…
The old recruiting life was built on stability; the new world of recruiting is built on change and flex. The emerging era will require an agile, tech-savvy, flexible, passionate recruiting manager who has an active orientation and a grasp of orchestrating the workforce of the future. And, one will have to be able to put all this into a personal style that is persuasive, fun, and engaging.
In short, the recruitment manager of the future will have to be totally relationship-oriented and embrace technology and new recruitment trends.
