If you ever wanted to go home stressed out about a job opportunity you didn’t fill because someone outbid you, a candidate getting fired and sullying your name because they stole something or being asked by every person who knows your profession to help their little cousin who just got their GED, then you’re in luck. Statistics show that recruiters are in high demand now, up 37 percent last month over March 2010.
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For the job seekers who aren’t looking to be underpaid and overworked, this is still good news. I can’t reiterate how the importance of developing great rapport with your recruiter. We have the tendency to re-use the same candidates for every job possible. If it’s not broke we’re not going to fix it.
So that means there are a lot of new recruiters in my industry who may not have that relationship with several dozen amazing candidates with whom you have to compete for attention. And every recruiter remembers the first several people we bring on-board even if later we find more qualified candidates.
But I’m sure this statistic is more about corporate recruiters who I’m even more sure are getting paid more than me. With new recruiters at companies such as Deloitte, JP Morgan Chase or whomever, you’re still working with someone who is looking to make an impression and are generally not inflicted with burnout [yet] meaning they’re probably still eager to listen and ready to make their first fill as soon as possible with great talent to show they deserved the job they got.
In the Washington, DC region, recruiters saw a 29 percent increase in job postings for recruiters. The hottest locations were Cleveland, Denver, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston and San Jose metro areas. The article goes on to say, “While demand is recovering well from its recessionary low in April 2009, up 177 percent, it remains 23 percent below its 4-year peak in June 2007.”
If nothing else, the fact that there’s an uptick in companies from private companies to staffing agencies hiring recruiters is sign that there are jobs on the way. I’ve been telling people we’re probably still six months to a year before it trickles down from the hard-to-fill jobs [like the ones I've been posting], but do know that companies don’t hire recruiters if there aren’t jobs to fill.
