I was sitting at work the other week, flicking from Twitter to Facebook, LinkedIn, RenRen (China’s equivalent to FB), and a multitude of other social media sites and it occurred to me I get paid to surf these social networking sites! I get paid to build my company’s brand through these sites and I thought “how cool is that” (also means I can't get caught out checking my personal FB or twitter through work!)?
Recruitment has never been an overly glamorous career, sure some people made more money than I will ever see in my life time, but I wasn't one of them. I was more concerned about the candidate experience and doing the right thing by them and my clients… I sometimes question whether I should have been more ruthless but then I realised I couldn’t have been – that wouldn’t have been being true to myself.
You tell people you are a recruiter and they look at you like you are the devil. We are right up there with used car salesmen and politicians… Just remember, not all can be tarred with the same brush. I learned from the best – a team of women, when I worked for a company called Centacom (now Adecco) in the 90's, who were absolute masters in their chosen field.
So, to every one of those women who taught me how to recruit and reminded me daily of the importance of ethics and honesty when it comes to dealing with people’s careers, I thank you. Every time I get to do really fun stuff at work around social media, I look back at how far we have come from faxing resumes to clients! And every time I have to do the not so fun stuff I think about changing careers.. But where would be the fun in that?
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