Do your hiring managers see you as an expert?

posted by	David Szary (6)

• “Our recruiters won’t be so stressed out if they engaged managers and set priorities”
• “Closing candidates is a lot easier if you can get hiring managers to make fair offers”
• “Hiring Managers would cut the recruiter more slack if they knew what their process was and what they were doing”

Clearly, these comments indicate the hiring manager does not view their recruiters as staffing/hiring/recruiting experts. While there are many things a recruiter can do to be recognized by their customers (and peers) as a recruitment expert, a simple, easy thing they can do is to become knowledgeable about the hiring managers operation.

Do you sit in operational meetings with your hiring managers? Do you sit in interviews with them? Do you provide any educational material on the labor market; the war for talent within the core skill sets they hire for?

In recruiting, it is hard to gain the respect of the hiring manager if you don’t understand what they do.

While this might be elementary to seasoned recruiters, from my discussions, it clearly is not elementary to the recruitment public at large.

I was reminded of that over the last two weeks.

I hope you can use this advice and/or pass it along to a fellow recruiter in need!