Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Challenges of a new Recruiter

Name: Challenges of a new Recruiter
Uploaded: 2024-06-21T16:00:03+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this brief monologue, a recruiter reflects on the difficulty of moving from a traditional 180-degree recruiting approach—where candidates come to the…

21 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, a recruiter reflects on the difficulty of moving from a traditional 180-degree recruiting approach—where candidates come to the recruiter—to a 360-degree model that requires proactive outreach. The speaker describes the fear of rejection that arises when making phone calls, emails, or LinkedIn messages, noting that hesitation and overthinking often hold recruiters back. The core advice offered is to overcome this paralysis by acting decisively and "going for the jugular" in outreach efforts.

I think definitely it's very daunting if you have came from that 180 background, and obviously as we all know just now, the market is changing more towards 360, you know. It's just really scary. I think you're always just thinking rejection, you know, if you're picking up a phone or doing an email or a LinkedIn message, whatever, you know, message you're using, you're always probably scared of the water, thinking worst case scenario. The thing that I would probably say when I began going into it is probably that hesitation and overthinking it. It probably is just kind of going straight in and going for the jugular, you know.