Recruiter
Description
A recruiter finds, attracts, and hires talent for organizations — defining roles, sourcing and screening candidates, managing interviews, negotiating offers, and guiding candidates from first contact to start date. The work blends sales and relationship skills with judgment about people and fit, whether focused on one company's hiring or juggling multiple clients at an agency.
Recruiters work in companies' talent teams and at staffing agencies, often specialising in in-house roles, agency placements, strategic talent acquisition, or sourcing hard-to-find candidates. The role suits personable, organised, perceptive people who enjoy connecting with candidates, can assess fit and read people, manage many moving parts, and want a people-focused role central to building the teams that make organizations succeed.
Dimensions
How this role scores across 12 work traits — creativity, structure, autonomy, and more
Career path
Labor statistics estimates from 2023–2033