So you have finally landed the recruiter role of your dreams; great company, fantastic opportunities and a chance to show what you can do; including smashing billings!

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Recruitment Consultant Tips-How To
Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role

3. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
So you have finally landed the recruiter role of your
dreams; great company, fantastic opportunities and
a chance to show what you can do; including
smashing billings!
Working in recruitment as long as I have, I notice
that the recruiters who get on the score board
quickly and get the positive attention of the
director’s exhibit certain patterns and behaviours
that seem to guarantee their success.

4. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
It is all about developing good habits that produce
results.
It is a well-known fact that it takes
around 30 days to break an old
habit or pattern and 30 days to
create a new one.
This was first observed with astronauts way back in
the sixties.

5. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
To a man (sorry girls there weren’t any female
equivalents of Neil Armstrong till much later); it took
about 30 days for the guys to handle weightlessness
to a point where it seemed like it was their, ‘natural
state’.
So how about putting this idea into practice as you
manage your new desk?
It seems logical then that if you implement some of
the following ideas and strategies during your first
month it is going to pay dividends not only for month
one but for many months later.

6. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
1. Look the part
Image matters. If you
looked good, and the part
at interview do the same
on a daily basis.
Shallow though it may be; clients, candidates, team
members and your new boss will notice.

7. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
It also has an unconscious effect that might surprise
you.
It will make you feel; good, upbeat and positive-all
essential skills for a recruiter; for many of us it is like
putting on our persona.
I once knew a director who worked from home on a
Friday and he still wore his three piece suit because
he said it helped him connect more and make more
placements

8. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
2. Be on time
We can all be late I know;
traffic, the tube, no
parking, late candidates
all seem to conspire
against us. Yet it’s possible to be on time consistently.
Have you noticed how it feels when someone turns up
on time?

9. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
It is a sign of respect, professionalism and
focus. It is about discipline; no I haven’t been in
the army!
This might be an unpopular message and having
discipline works in life.
The structure that discipline gives you brings
results you never would expect.

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Role
3. Be a team player
I appreciate you aspire to be the
companies top biller; that is fine.
Just don’t walk over everyone
else to do it; because you don’t need to.
Being a team player is becoming more and more
important in a business context.

11. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
In fact I bet at your interview you will have been asked
questions to find out how you work in a team setting.
As soon as you can, make it your mission to connect
with everyone in your team. Go out to the pub after
work, grab a sandwich together and find out about
your colleagues.
Do you need to be best buddies with everyone? No.
We are all different and some people you will gravitate
to more than others that is natural.

12. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
4. Do more than you are paid for
In a new company you need to listen and
learn as much as you can. That is going
to take time and effort including, late
nights and early mornings.
The good news is it will work. It is about practice and
application. Imagine you have just taken up a new
sport.

13. How To Survive Your First 30 Days In Your New
Role
Unless you practice the moves and techniques as
much as possible you will never get to a point
where you can enjoy it and reap the rewards.
Do you think Andy Murray whinges about having
to practice every day?
I am sure on occasion he might do and he does it
all the same and reaps the rewards.

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Role
5. Ask questions
If you don’t know ask. Luckily in every
organisation there is a period of grace
where questions are encouraged and
answers freely given.
Top tip; take notes and refer to them. Most people don’t
and then wonder why people get cheesed off when the
same questions are continually asked.

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Role
6. Create you system
If you have worked successfully as a recruiter before
you will know what you need to do to get the results
you want.Make that your total focus.
Yes it will be a steep curve learning with all the new
systems and processes in a new recruitment company
and make sure you stick to your KPI’s that you know
deliver consistent results.

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Role
7. Set a goal
Set yourself a stretch goal to
achieve in your first 30 days;
with the right mindset anything
is possible. Break it down
into daily and weekly actions and stick to it.
If it means getting in early to spend 90 minutes on the
phone connecting with past clients do it.

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Role
Keep a record of the actions you take and the results
you achieve.
Even small wins the mind recognises and looks for
more of. As human beings we are success seeking
creatures and our minds constantly look for ways to
be successful; at this time everything is on your side.
There you have it 7 strategies that if you take action
on them will produce the results you want.

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