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Recruitment officer
The business
What is a recruitment officer?
Its role
Is the Recruitment Officer primarily responsible for recruiting staff? No. They do much more than that, and work in collaboration with the Human Resources Department. In this role, you are responsible for both the selection and recruitment of new professionals for the company.
Its field of action
This is a highly strategic position within a company. As a Recruitment Officer, you’ll become one of the most important people in the company’s development.
Indeed, the success of the latter depends entirely on your common sense when selecting the profiles that are likely to join it.
The functions
What does a recruitment officer do?
As a Recruitment Officer, you will be responsible for the entire recruitment process. Here are the main tasks you will be expected to carry out:
you define the profiles that the company needs to optimise its productivity
you handle the entire recruitment phase
you take care of maintenance
you list existing posts, vacancies and posts to be added
you write and publish the advertisements
you contact the candidates hired
you identify the needs of the organisation and its customers
you carefully select the most interesting profiles for the company
you represent your employer at various job fairs.
Qualifications
The qualities and skills needed to be a good recruitment officer
Organised, honest, rigorous, a good listener and good analytical skills are some of the most important personal qualities you need to have as a Recruitment Officer.
You must always remember that the development of the company you work for depends largely on your ability to find the right profiles. With this in mind, you also take on your share of responsibility. In addition to the qualities mentioned above, you also need to have had courses in work psychology to enable you to ease potential tensions and create the best possible working environment. But you also need to be diplomatic and master the art of communication. You need these skills both to recruit and to reject candidates.
The benefits
What are the advantages of working as a recruitment officer?
There are many advantages to becoming a Recruitment Officer. Firstly, you have a stable job that pays fairly well. Secondly, you have a lot to learn from your work, thanks to the many interactions you have with a large number of candidates, all with different profiles.
What’s more, the job of Recruitment Officer has all the makings of an exciting one, far from being boring and monotonous.
You often meet new people as part of the recruitment process, and this helps to develop your interpersonal and communication skills. It’s also a career that can evolve and take you even further in your career.
Remuneration
Recruitment officer: salary and career development
When you start out as a recruitment officer, you can earn a monthly salary of around €2,000 to €2,500 gross. As you become more experienced, you can earn up to 3900 euros a month, or even more with bonuses if you work for a recruitment agency. If, after a while, you want to move up the career ladder, you can always consider becoming a Human Resources Manager or even a Human Resources Director.
Up to
3 900€
Monthly salary
Training courses
How do I become a recruitment officer?
Our training courses
The job of Recruitment Officer is a responsible one, which is why it is so rewarding. So, to be up to the job you want to do, it’s best to train at the right school.
INSEEC is a business school specialising in Management and Human Resources, offering a wide range of programmes and courses. Among these, you can easily find a suitable option to prepare you for the job of Recruitment Officer:
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For more options, you are always free to go to our site and find answers to your questions in our FAQ section. You can also explore the possibilities of following asandwich course if you wish. Are you looking for a career change? We’ll work with you to put it all together!
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