A recruiter is an intermediary between the employer and the candidate for the position

A freelance recruiter is a person who helps an employer to hire exactly the specialist that he needs, while not belonging to the staff of any agency or firm.

Freelance is a modern trend

More recently, the word "freelance" was applicable only to several areas: journalism or work on the Internet. However, to date, this concept applies to many professions.

By defining the freelancer, we can say thatfor this person are not characterized by permanent labor relations (which are regulated by the TC) with companies or enterprises, as he performs a certain amount of work or a specific task, paid for in fact. Literally a few years ago, this possibility was possessed by a limited number of people entering into narrow professional niches, and the structure of the market as such did not exist at all. In addition, associations with freelancers were extremely negative: they were perceived as lazy people who did not want to go somewhere to work.

Public opinion has radically changed,when, along with the development of technology and the emergence of high-quality, affordable equipment, a large number of people were able to realize their professional skills. Thanks to numerous advantages, even large companies prefer to apply to freelancers, outsourcing various projects: from writing advertising texts to developing complex computer programs. Such specialty as recruiting was not an exception.

Recruiter-freelancer: who it is, what it does and for what it receives a salary

Recruiter - employee who searches forpersonnel for the enterprise or find a vacancy for a specialist. He must have certain skills and experience, otherwise the quality of his services will be inadequate. Payment for such freelancers is accrued after the closing of the vacancy.

In fact, the recruiter is the one who performs the following duties:

Places information about vacancies that have opened in different companies. For this, he uses bulletin boards, special websites and newspapers.
Finds and looks through resumes of job seekers who could take vacancies.
Sends requests, calls up and invites people to an interview.
Conducts meetings and interviews in order to determine how suitable a person is to fill a position.
Tells applicants who are suitable for the company, about working conditions, standards and provides necessary information about future work.
Pass the information about the candidate to the employer and find out his opinion.
Communicates with the employee and sends him the employer's answer: whether he is employed or not.

With the mutual consent of the employee and the employer, the transaction is considered successful, the vacancy is closed, and the freelancer receives payment. In fact, the recruiter is an intermediary.

Advantages of work

There are several significant advantages, thanks to which many people choose for themselves such a niche as recruiting on terms of freelancing:

Receiving a full fee. When you work as a recruiter in an agency, each employee receives no more than a third of the amount of compensation. At the same time, the fee of a private freelancer is several times less than that paid to specialized companies.
Flexibility of the work schedule. The time that he can allocate for occupying a professional activity is determined by the recruiter himself. Who is it, not a freelancer in the traditional sense? The recruiter can work day and night, as well as on holidays or weekends, freeing himself for those periods that he needs. This is especially true for people who combine the duties of a freelancer with other work, caring for children or elderly relatives.
There is no need to rent an office.
Independent choice of partners for professional activities.

Disadvantages of recruiting

As you know, there is no ideal work. To get a full idea of what a freelancer recruiter does, who it is and how it breathes, it is necessary to take into account the minuses of the profession:

Lack of stability. To receive income from its activities, you need to constantly find customers and meet their needs.
Non-normality. With this kind of work, you do not have to talk about constant and regular workload, since there can be ten orders in one month, and in the other - none at all.
The need to spend a lot of time searching for both employers and employees.
Obligatory possession of tactfulness, literate speech, skills of psychological analysis, knowledge of the labor market.

Selected aspects of activity

At first glance, it may seem that such aThe profession is quite simple and in the conditions of the economic crisis and unemployment any opportunity to earn should be taken with a bang. However, like any other specialist, a recruiter is still a hired worker. He, just like the rest of the labor market participants, lies in wait for their pitfalls.

For example, finding the right person is not soIt is simple, after all it is required to find the worker with a set of certain professional characteristics, education and experience. In addition, the recruiter is the one on whose shoulders lies the testing of the competency and adequacy of the candidate. It is not uncommon for employees to change their decisions, find themselves in parallel with a recruiter or simply refuse their services before the result is obtained.

Communication with the employer also has its own peculiarities: tact is important here, understanding of the tasks and requirements set.

How do recruiters start working?

To work in this field without special education (personnel management) is very difficult, at the very least it can be replaced by the experience of an assistant recruiter in the company.

Prioritization and direction determinationwork - this is what the recruiter does first. What does it mean? Starting to work independently, the freelancer chooses, with what professions he will deal: managers, workers, managers, sales specialists.

Further the recruiter appoints the fee for its services and monitors the exchanges and sites in search of the first orders.

The successful and efficient operation of suchworkers in many respects depends on their reputation, business ties, activity and ingenuity. Therefore, one can speak about efficiency only after a certain period (several months, or even years).