5 steps guide to construct your recruitment career

1. Equip yourself with essential skills: A degree or diploma in Human Resource is ideal to start your career in recruitment. It gives you required understanding about the functioning of human resource department in an organization. The next target should be to acquire right knowledge on technical/functional terminologies used in the industry you aim to build your recruitment career in. IT recruitment professionals can get some help from my presentation Tips for recruiters published on this blog.

2. Train yourself on using recruitment tools: There are quite a few online recruitment tools are available today to help recruitment professionals. We can divide them into two categories (1) Sourcing tools (2) Processing tools.

Sourcing tools are online job portals like Monster.com, Naukri.com, Dice.com, Jobstreet.com etc. These portal provide online job posting and resume database search. While it's not difficult to use these portals, it can be quite tricky to get the best results depending upon your understanding of various options available. So it's always advisable to attend the formal training offered by these portals, which mostly comes at no cost but improves your efficiency in using these portals effectively.

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