Success Secrets of a Competitive Recruiter - Your Career Intel

Success Secrets of a Competitive Recruiter - Your Career IntelRecruiting is one of the hottest and most in demand professions today. In a profession where most people are highly skilled, I believe theres one key quality thing that separates the good recruiters from the exceptional ones. A competitive spirit. Playing and strategizing to win ensures your staying power in this industry.First, its important to absolutely be competitive with yourself. Set a high bar for yourself each year, and aim to do better now than the year before. As recruiters, if we arent bettering ourselves, our clients are greatly affected. Being competitive ensures we dont settle for mediocrity.But its also important to be competitive when it comes to your competition. It helps to keep you strong, focused, determined and always doing what is best for your clients and candidates. Because our industry is all about speed, focus and service, a competitive spirit is crucial to us delivering our best in all three ar eas.Recently, my competitive nature secured my team pole ort with one of my large, Fortune 500 clients. At one point, my client had many searches and brought in another recruiter our competition to help them source strong talent. Instead of stressing me out, being directly pitted against our competition only made me want to work harder for our client. Once I knew they brought in our competition to support their needs, I kicked up our search process even mora. I refused to lose to our competition, and even more importantly, I refused to see my client fail with their critical HR openings.It was a fantastic feeling when we soon edged out our competition and returned to being the top provider again I have placed over 20 HR professionals with this client in the last five years.As well as being competitive, successful recruiters always need two other complementary traits An exceptionally strong work ethic and an ability to persevere. I believe theres never any harm in friendly competiti on I generally advise new recruiters to learn how to win and lose gracefully.