The topic of the article is very personal: thoughts about the professional path of HR, about the experience experienced at work in many companies. I hope it will resonate with MP readers. The most important question: why have I been engaged in recruiting for many years? The answer is ready: because I get pleasure from my work! If you wanna get pleasure like me look at the Human Resources Jobs by Function and apply for a job.
Entering to study at the university “as a psychologist”, I did not know anything about the profession of eychar (and recruiter). And not only me - then these words were practically not used in business life. I was very interested in my future profession, but, of course, I also thought about what I would do after graduation. She dreamed of working in industry. We were told about the areas in which a psychologist can be involved: professional selection and professionography, preparing a personnel reserve and forming a managerial link, forming working groups and scientific organization of labor, ergonomics and occupational health, business games and psychological unloading ...
But after working as a psychologist for a couple of years (not at work), I parted with the illusions typical of a young specialist and realized that the best place to apply my professional skills is recruiting. This is where knowledge on professional selection comes in handy.
The first steps
At the very end of the last century ☺ in Lviv there was only one recruitment agency - Leonid; At that time, we had not yet heard of recruiting agencies. Therefore, my debut as a recruiter took place in ... a Kiev agency. First, colleagues from the capital asked for an interview with the applicant, sometimes - to find a candidate for them.
Around the same time, the first vacancies of HR managers appeared, where I submitted my resume. I was lucky: they accepted, and without experience in personnel management (and where did he come from?), And even in the IT company! Unfortunately, the dotcom crisis in 2000-2001 did not give her the opportunity to develop, so I had to look for another job.
Then I could not imagine myself anywhere other than recruiting. I really liked this work: interesting, lively, and connected with real business. The recruiter “brought” to the company people who brought money and created value. But the HR manager at that time still remained a “decorative element”, a kind of fashion tribute: we have not some kind of mossy “personnel officer”, but a whole “eychar”! And it sounds proud, and a real HR-girl can bring benefits: fill out a work book or organize a party, just pour flowers - and then bread ... (I think my colleagues remember the attitude to the HR manager's position in the “zero” ones.) I wanted to bring benefit to both people and business.
By that time, I already had a clear understanding of the role of the recruiter and his place in the business. I still adhere to this opinion.
Recruiter: why is he?
I will probably reveal one of my most important professional secrets: work is a very, very important part of a person’s life, sometimes even the most important one. Why is there so much talk about the balance “work / personal life”? Probably precisely because the problem is acute.
The work is so important that people tend to give it maximum resources. Good, beloved work is a necessary component of happiness. A person in his place benefits both the company in which he works, and the people around him, and himself. And who helps him find his dream job? Who connects like pieces of a puzzle, a good job and a good person? We recruiters! So, recruiting is an important, socially significant and socially useful work. Being convinced of this helps me a lot.
Yes, but ... After all, there are "uninteresting" vacancies, and among the candidates there are not very nice people who have to deal with ... What to do in this case? How not to stop loving your work? And just understand and accept that everything is very subjective. The position is "bad" only in your opinion: another person can perceive it in a completely different way, so it can be a wonderful fit for him. Useless - in your opinion - a person can do an excellent job. And the task of the recruiter is to connect the person and his work!
Entering to study at the university “as a psychologist”, I did not know anything about the profession of eychar (and recruiter). And not only me - then these words were practically not used in business life. I was very interested in my future profession, but, of course, I also thought about what I would do after graduation. She dreamed of working in industry. We were told about the areas in which a psychologist can be involved: professional selection and professionography, preparing a personnel reserve and forming a managerial link, forming working groups and scientific organization of labor, ergonomics and occupational health, business games and psychological unloading ...
But after working as a psychologist for a couple of years (not at work), I parted with the illusions typical of a young specialist and realized that the best place to apply my professional skills is recruiting. This is where knowledge on professional selection comes in handy.
The first steps
At the very end of the last century ☺ in Lviv there was only one recruitment agency - Leonid; At that time, we had not yet heard of recruiting agencies. Therefore, my debut as a recruiter took place in ... a Kiev agency. First, colleagues from the capital asked for an interview with the applicant, sometimes - to find a candidate for them.
Around the same time, the first vacancies of HR managers appeared, where I submitted my resume. I was lucky: they accepted, and without experience in personnel management (and where did he come from?), And even in the IT company! Unfortunately, the dotcom crisis in 2000-2001 did not give her the opportunity to develop, so I had to look for another job.
Then I could not imagine myself anywhere other than recruiting. I really liked this work: interesting, lively, and connected with real business. The recruiter “brought” to the company people who brought money and created value. But the HR manager at that time still remained a “decorative element”, a kind of fashion tribute: we have not some kind of mossy “personnel officer”, but a whole “eychar”! And it sounds proud, and a real HR-girl can bring benefits: fill out a work book or organize a party, just pour flowers - and then bread ... (I think my colleagues remember the attitude to the HR manager's position in the “zero” ones.) I wanted to bring benefit to both people and business.
By that time, I already had a clear understanding of the role of the recruiter and his place in the business. I still adhere to this opinion.
Recruiter: why is he?
I will probably reveal one of my most important professional secrets: work is a very, very important part of a person’s life, sometimes even the most important one. Why is there so much talk about the balance “work / personal life”? Probably precisely because the problem is acute.
The work is so important that people tend to give it maximum resources. Good, beloved work is a necessary component of happiness. A person in his place benefits both the company in which he works, and the people around him, and himself. And who helps him find his dream job? Who connects like pieces of a puzzle, a good job and a good person? We recruiters! So, recruiting is an important, socially significant and socially useful work. Being convinced of this helps me a lot.
Yes, but ... After all, there are "uninteresting" vacancies, and among the candidates there are not very nice people who have to deal with ... What to do in this case? How not to stop loving your work? And just understand and accept that everything is very subjective. The position is "bad" only in your opinion: another person can perceive it in a completely different way, so it can be a wonderful fit for him. Useless - in your opinion - a person can do an excellent job. And the task of the recruiter is to connect the person and his work!
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