Career Viewpoint: Recruitment Consultant in Legal Recruitment Consultant within Fashion Retail Outlet

This article discusses the career viewpoint of becoming a recruitment consultant in the legal recruitment consultant industry within the fashion retail outlet. It explores the skills, knowledge, and experience required for this role and the benefits it offers. The article provides insights from both primary and secondary research.

Career Viewpoint

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
ANALYSIS & APPLICATIONS....................................................................................................3
Secondary research:-....................................................................................................................4
Primary research :-.......................................................................................................................6
Evaluation....................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
APPENDICES...............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Career research is considered to be a crucial step for each individual who want to develop
a better career after completing their qualification. This support a fresher in identifying the
number of segments in which a student can enter and select best path for their future career
(Bencsik and Machova, 2016). I currently have completed my graduation with specialisation in
Human resource stream as I want to develop my career in this area. Hence, I discussion it with
my teacher and perform self-investigation which made me understood that recruitment
consultant sector is growing rapidly and have a vast scope for job with numerous of
opportunities. For further determining about this area I decided to perform both primary and
secondary investigation for the trainer in legal recruitment consultant within fashion retail outlet.
ANALYSIS & APPLICATIONS
Recruitment industry involve set of activities performed toward talent acquisition and
their placement by meeting up the need of both an individual regarding job and a company
regarding hiring of skilled and competent workforce. Recruitment industry is considered to be
the fastest growing sector where majority of people are focusing toward opening up their own
small consultant firms or take franchise of big brands to enter into the industry for offering
satisfactory services to fulfil the need of several organisations regarding competent workforce.
Within this industry, companies that provide services related with recruitment assistance
for law firms are in high demand. This is so because government is getting more and more
restrict toward organisations to be implement legal laws effectively for achieving sustainability
in marketplace (Barnay, 2016). Therefore, the demand for law employees in is high demand
which in turn arises the demand of law firms to recruit more and more employees that have
higher knowledge in law as per current scenario. Hence the requirement of law recruitment
consultant firms is relatively higher. Therefore, it can be said that there are larger number of
opportunities for freshers who want to be successful in their recruitment career as it provides
several opportunities for growth as it is continuously changing toward improvement. For further
performing analysis over this, an investigation over job role of trainee of law recruitment
consultant will be performed based on primary and secondary investigation. This is mentioned
below: -

Secondary research: -
In this type of investigation information is collected from the sources where it is already
investigated and published by another person for their own purpose. It is a second hand
information that help in developing understanding regarding the current area of investigation
(Walliman, 2017). The secondary information is usually gathered from sources like webpages,
census, articles, internet etc.
General trends that may have impact over chosen profession: -
The trainee of recruitment consultant have to perform several tasks for performing well
such as getting a clear view regarding the hiring need of an organisation, sourcing candidates
with required field, cross verify their details, assess their skills or capabilities for getting a match
with organisational need, conduct interview, shortlist candidates, follow up references, generate
leads, maintain strong relationship with clients etc. These are some of the crucial practices that a
trainee at legal consultant firm has to perform for ensuring right candidate get placed at right
time period. But instead of all this there are certain factors that trainee of recruitment consultant
must take into consideration for improving its practices such as trends or changes that are
continuously anticipating within the industry due to globalisation and technological development
which can be understood using following points:
 The technologies are continuously developing as a result of which companies are
regularly upgrading their working process by coping up with these changes to keep
customer satisfied (De Vos and Cambré, 2017). The current trend in recruitment
consultancies are to source candidates from internet by linked up with several websites
such as LinkedIn, Somerset etc. So, a trainee of law recruitment consultant firm must be
aware of using these web portals in order to source number of candidates that are suitable
as per the requirement of their client companies.
 Globalisation is considered to be a major part of every business that help in expanding
the business at several geographical location and approach more customers which
increase profitability. This is one of the biggest trends that is getting popular among
several organisation where they try to expand business at global market for getting better
growth through expansion. Therefore, the trainee of law consultant firm may have some
knowledge regarding some basic laws and regulation that are considered within a
particular country, whose client organisation they are serving. But the main drawback of

this is that lack of understanding may leads to wrong candidate which results into
dissatisfaction among them.
Skills / knowledge and experience required :-
The trainee of law recruitment consultant held several responsible for conducting their
job roles such as advising client over the best as well as most suitable recruitment and method of
talent acquisition. Other than this it is also responsible for performing a process of finding,
attracting as well as hiring the talent for their clients as per their different need (Jiang, 2017).
Hence for performing this, trainee of recruitment consultant requires following skills,
Skill: - Communication skill: - For a recruitment consultant trainee it become very crucial to
have an excel over communication skills as this help in forming up a better brand image
in front of client and also support in determining their requirement regarding talent hiring
effectively so that best candidate can be placed. Leadership skills: - The recruitment consultant trainee must have the capability to handle
and motivate team to perform their actions most appropriately (Visagie and Koekemoer,
2014). This support in ensuring that each and every practice get performed in right
manner toward accomplishing organisational goals. Conflict resolution skills: - During execution of activities several issues may aroused
either due to a mistake or misinterpretation of things which may create conflict from
client side. So, recruitment consultant trainee must know how to tackle and solve so that
relation can be maintained. Time management: - The client organisation mainly has urgency in hiring when they
have vacant position, delay in this may affect brand image (McGinley and et. al., 2014).
So, recruitment consultant trainee must be excelling in managing timed so that each task
get accomplished on timely manner.
 Adaptability: - The law firms faces many changes in their working which in turn
influence their choice about recruitment. Therefore, recruitment consultant trainee have
the capability of getting adaptive to these changes quickly and provide services
accordingly.
Knowledge area and experience: -

 Information Technology: - The recruitment consultant trainee must have understanding
regarding the use of information technology so the candidate sources can be performed
effectively as it help in getting number of options to choose best talent.
 Basic law: - The recruitment consultant trainee must have basic knowledge regarding
laws in term of companies there are providing services so that they can judge candidates
over a valid parameter.
Personal Skill Audit:-
1. Bad
2. Not Bad
3. Average
4. Good
5. Very Good
Skills (personal audit questionnaire) 1 2 3 4 5
1). Communication skills *
2). Leadership *
3). Conflict Management Skills *
4). Time managment *
5). Adaptability *
6). Information Technology *
7). Basic law *
Primary research: -
Primary data is gathered from the sources which help in collecting fresh or new data that
is not yet been collected before such as interview, questionnaire etc. For collecting the primary
information an interview along with an experienced HR manager which is present above:
Name of contact Mr. Joe

Company Adecco group
Job tittle Senior HR manager
Date of contact 15/03/2020
How did you contact them I went to attend a seminar which is about
consultant agencies and firms regarding its
opportunities and challenges where I had a
meeting with the senior HR manager of
Adecco i.e. Mr. Joe. I asked him several
questions for getting guidance regarding career
path.
Question asked 1). What changes get anticipated within last
five year in recruitment industry that bring
improvement to company?
2). What skills does a recruitment consultant
trainer must have?
3). What are several benefits that a recruitment
consultant trainer gets?
Summary of response From this conversation, I found that
recruitment industry is growing fast due to its
technological integration within operation. This
support Adecco in improving its performance
by getting more approachable to client
organizations using online medium. Hence the
major skill that a recruitment consultant trainer
require is leadership, IT skills, communication
etc. They gets several benefits such as PF,
medical benefit, incentives etc.

Interview
Q1. Why do you want to purse recruitment for you career start?
Applicant 1: This profession provides a range of opportunity for personal and professional
development which help you grow as recruitment is a profession where one can grow quickly.
Applicant 2: There are number of benefits that involve in this job one most important among
them is no matter what is your basic salary, incentives are higher.
Applicant 3: Recruiter have huge influence over an individual’s life by helping them in getting
their dream job which always keep motivating to perform well and help in earning high growth.
Applicant 4: It is a profession where companies always focuses toward development of their
employees which ensures several opportunities for professional development.
Applicant 5: along with its success attractiveness there are some another benefit which attracted
me toward this profession such as additional benefits like private healthcare, reward, pension
contribution etc.
Q2. In what manner you handle your client?
Applicant 1: I firstly introduce them about my company and then ask them the criteria over
which they want a placement and companies that remain at their priority so that best possible
offers can be present to them.
Applicant 2: I will collect their personal details as well as things they want in their job profile so
that I get an idea regarding the type of job they are searching in order to get a best match
between company and applicant.
Applicant 3: I will try to recognise type of job they require and after that I try to analyse their
skills as per the available vacancies by taking a short interview to determine their eligibility nad
then call for interview.
Applicant 4: First and foremost, I ask them about kind of job they need and then perform a well
screening over their CV in term of their qualification and skills as per available job vacancies.
Applicant 5: I will ask client regarding the skills or capabilities they are seeking for their vacant
job position along with salary they are expecting so that I become able to create a criteria or
parameter over which the applicants can be judged to determine their eligibility for a job.
Q3. On what parameter you will judge candidate for vacancy in law firm?
Applicant 1: I will judge the applicant as per the skills and capability that an organisation asked
for within an individual which I analyse by screening CV or performing telephonic round.

Applicant 2: For law firm I will judge the applicant as per their qualification, communication
skills and knowledge regarding particular field for which they are applying.
Applicant 3: For determining a candidate eligible for particular job vacancy, I will firstly be
gathered information regarding skills or capabilities they have along with their minimum
qualification. Then I will assess their knowledge regarding laws they know related with the area
they applied for and perform their shortlisting interview by asking them questions over their
related law field.
Applicant 4: In order to select a candidate for law firm, I firstly try to evaluate their knowledge
in term of new laws and regulation. Along with this, I will ask them for past experiences or
situations they handle in order to determine their eligibility for particular job role.
Applicant 5: For judging the candidate’s eligibility for particular job role I will take a short
telephonic round for getting a clarity regarding whether the information presented is right or
candidate have the skills that are required for vacancies.
Q4. According to you, what you think a good recruitment consultant must possess for
performing well?
Applicant 1: A good recruitment consultant is one who have the capability to determine the
actual requirement of an organisation or applicant and then try to match them up with available
options so that best possible deal can be performed.
Applicant 2: A person consider to be good recruiter who posses excellent communication and
critical thinking skills as it supports them in judging a candidate effectively which further help in
providing an organisation with right candidate.
Applicant 3: A good recruiter is one who have good networking and knowns how to interact
with people as well as judge them over a particular criterion which is given by companies that
hire them for filling up vacant position.
Applicant 4: The recruitment mainly relies on effective communication; hence recruiter must
have good communication skill so that they can interview the candidate effectively and be able
to provide its client with skilled and productive candidate.
Applicant 5: A good recruiter is one who have the capability to sell their services in the form of
job to candidate and at the same time have the capability to convince them regarding why this is
a great opportunity for them.
Q5. Why do you consider yourself suitable for this job?

Applicant 1: I consider myself eligible for this job as I have good communication skill and very
good at interacting with people as well as developing my networking which is consider to be
most crucial capability for this job.
Applicant 2: I am good at Communication as well as IT skills which make it eligible for this job
role as I can make better use of online platform to get a pool of candidates attracted toward
organisation for taking its recruitment services.
Applicant 3: I have bit understanding of law as well as interpersonal skills are also good. These
skills and knowledge make me eligible for this as I perform recruitment of people that belongs to
law background and assess their capability much effectively as per the requirement of client
firms.
Applicant 4: I am eligible for this job role as my I am very much good at interacting with people
and develop relationship with them. These skills will support me in getting a good recruiter while
at the same time support me in assessing right candidate with adequate skills or capabilities to
get placed at right job role
Applicant 5: I consider myself eligible for this job role as I am a team player and know how to
direct people over the direction through which they can achieve their aims. This job role will
involve the same thing as I have to consult people and help them in getting right candidate or
getting individual a right job.

EVALUATION AND CONCLUSION
From the above performed study it can be summarised that career research is essential as it
support an individual to pursue a better career goal. This research will help in determining
several benefits and challenges which an individual experience while starting its career.
Additionally, it also provides the help in determining the trends which are prevailing in a job role
currently so that better job enhancement would remain possible.
I am recently done with graduation in Human resource specialisation and now I am seeking
for some better career opportunity in same sector through which I can gain better growth and
success. For determining this I performed both secondary and primary study which help me in
identifying that recruitment industry is experiencing tremendous growth in this techno-advanced
world. Hence, this is one among best area for starting up the career as this industry experience
several changes which support me in developing my understanding and knowledge (Vondracek,
Lerner and Schulenberg, 2019). By performing this research I came to know about the advantage
of working as a recruitment consultant trainee for starting up my career because it support me
with several growth opportunity in term of developing my skills related with the team handling,
leadership, communication, technical, situational handling and critical thinking that help in my
personal as well as professional development. But the main drawback of this job role is that at
starting stage the salary remains low for freshers and earning is highly depend on incentives but
as the time passes and skills get developed among people then they started getting desired salary.

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APPENDICES
CURRICULUM VITAE
Curriculum Vitae
Name: - Robert D’Souza
Address: - Kemp House, 160 City Road, London, UK.
Phone No: - 825461
Aim for career: To develop career among such people where I can guide over improving my
current skills and get more growth opportunities.
Qualification: -
 BBA
 MBA (Human resource management)
Declaration:
I hereby declare that the detail which I provided about are true and valid as per my knowledge.
Date:
Place:
JOB DESCRIPTION
Organisation Name: Airswift
Post: Recruitment consultant trainee
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Communicating with clients for getting information regarding their requirement regarding
placements.
2. Placing advertisements and screening of candidates as per job requirement.
3. Interacting with candidates and analysing their skills for current vacancies
4. Taking up interview on behalf of client organisation
5. Defining job description to candidates and other detail on behalf of client
6. Cross verify the background information of candidates.
Required Qualification

Must have graduation from affiliates university
MBA in human resource specialisation
Experience required
Fresher’s are welcomed
Interview log sheet: -
Job Applicant
name
Phone
screen by
Interviewed
by
Date Remark
HR
executive
Robin
D’Souza
HR assistant HR manager 20 march Good
HR
executive
Jack William HR assistant HR manager 23 march Excellent
HR
executive
Julia Marco HR assistant HR manager 23 march Low skills
HR
executive
Evan Smith HR assistant HR manager 26 march Rejected
HR
executive
David Brown HR assistant HR manager 28 march Good
Job Advertisement:
Job advertisement for the oak leave is mentioned below regarding the vacancy of HR
associate: -