Laid Off Recruiter Finds Job in 2 Weeks

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This post is part of a new series where I go over a job seeker’s personal situation and my advice for them on how to land their next job, or advance their career. These stories are collected either from my coaching calls (link at the bottom of the post to sign up), random folks I speak to for my day job, or stories of people I know IRL.

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Situation:

Believe it or not, recruiters get laid off too.

Someone I mentored was laid off in the summer unexpectedly. He was historically a good biller. He’s a split desk/180 degree agency recruiter (meaning he does not sell to or speak with clients, he only deals with candidates and partners with the sales reps who interface with the clients) who’s billed anywhere between $800k - $1M any given year.

But the market’s been rough for a lot of folks, and although he was a high billing recruiter, he was laid off because he wasn’t responsible for generating any clients.

Let’s call this guy Bob. Bob was a good dude who kept in contact with me, our former boss, and quite a few others we all used to work with.

Nothing crazy, but would text us every couple weeks or months just to say what’s up, bounce ideas off each other, etc.

Action:

The first thing Bob did was reach out to me and our former boss (two different companies).

Now the company I work for is not hiring recruiters, but since I know Bob well, he’s someone I’d personally vouch for and go to bat to get my company to hire him.

I also was going to refer Bob to a few folks in my network that would refer/hire me in a doomsday scenario.

But he didn’t have to resort to that because…

Result:

Our old manager hired Bob the second he reached out to him. Let’s call our old manager Jerry.

Jerry moved onto a smaller agency recruiting firm where he heads up all of recruiting and reports directly to the CEO.

Although they didn’t have any openings to bring on more recruiters, since he knew his body of work and history as a solid recruiter/biller, they created a new role for him to join the team.

So all in all, Bob was only out of work for 2 weeks before landing something else.

How did he do it?

1. Made connections with people he worked with

2. He was hard working, a team player, and a good guy that everyone liked working with

3. He was always curious, learning, and striving to get better

4. This allowed him to build a solid internally when he worked for my company

5. He kept in touch with a good amount of people. Every couple of weeks or months we’d connect on work/life

6. So by the time that doomsday scenario did hit, he had all his bases covered

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