What is the best advice you received when you became a recruiter?

Although it was many years ago, I remember it well.  As a new recruiter I was afraid – what can I say? What can I ask?  My boss back then had been in HR for a few years, she understood where I was coming from; why I was feeling the way that I was.  One day she sat me down, she told me , “don’t be afraid, be yourself, get to know the applicant; you’re always not going to make the “right hire”; you’ll learn from your mistakes”.  She said, always go with your “gut feeling”.  Well she was right - years later, I have learned from my mistakes – we all make them; but when I hire that “right” person; it’s such a thrill.  And the “gut thing”……..  yes, I always listen to it!    It’s always right. 

What about you, what is the best advice you received when you became a recruiter?

Claudia Cotarelo
Atlantic Health
NAHCR Social Media Task Force Member

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