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If you're good at sales, looking for a $job, become a headhunter
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Date: June 11th, 2012 1:58 AM Author: balding trailer park Just be a headhunter. If you're good at it, you will always be able to find a job in any city as there is always a need at executive search firms & recruiting agencies for new talent. It can be 9 - 5 if you want it to be. It's base salary + bonuses and it's among the highest paying jobs at the senior level, i.e. 7 figure salaries for rainmakers with 7-8 years experience.
Many search firms have entry-level positions that are very generous (ranging from $45k - $65k) for research roles (finding candidates/information for the recruiters) or junior recruiting roles.
What recruiters are really looking for in other recruiters is, logically, the kind of person who would intuitively pick up the phone to find an answer to question. Do some homework on the industry and then, if you're really interested, send your resumes with a tailored cover letter to every single executive search firm and recruiting agency in your city. And then call them! One by one, everyday, until you get call backs from people agreeing to have an informational interview/cup of coffee with you. That's how you get it done, brothers. It's VERY doable because not that many people are that aggressive. Once you get past the fear, you realize there is an entire world out there waiting to be conquered.
There are the "executive search firms", which most of the clients are bulge bracket investment banks, top law firms, Fortune 500 companies, tech companies, with offices on every continent. These are companies like Spencer Stuart, Russell Reynolds, CT Partners, Heidrick & Struggles, etc.,
They also offer internships and a specific partner track. Starting salary is pretty good. Among these executive search firms you have boutiques like the Options Group (front office Wall St.) who are smaller and nimbler (not large publicly-traded companies) yet still global. Job openings are less frequent here as most hires are through internal referrals.
Then you have the recruiting agencies, like Michael Page International, Korn Ferry, Manpower, Solomon Page. They do "workforce solutions", like large scale staffing for contract jobs, temporary workers by the busload for large firms and big businesses.
They even outsource jobs and charge a % of the company's cost-savings as a fee. Look, there is a lot of business to be done in recruiting, Human Resources, organizational management. Human Capital is the future and will emerge as it's own behemoth of an industry in our lifetime - it is already starting to take shape. |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 2:05 AM Author: Cheese-eating painfully honest orchestra pit What if you're aspie and hate people? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20865888) |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 2:07 AM Author: balding trailer park Then sales is not for you, my friend. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20865896) |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 2:13 AM Author: Sable Giraffe Haunted Graveyard Depends.
I'm often a big failure in unstructured social situations, but I've had sales jobs, and it's not so bad. There's a game to play and you play it. |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 6:39 PM Author: duck-like transparent sweet tailpipe hissy fit you in the industry bro
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Date: June 11th, 2012 8:03 PM Author: balding trailer park Yessir. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20869453) |
Date: June 11th, 2012 2:13 AM Author: Rebellious brindle gaping circlehead ty for the optimistic job search advice. going to bed, otherwise would post more. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20865921) |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 2:22 AM Author: Laughsome turdskin "Human Capital is the future" --> in ARE country... or using cheap macaca labor? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20865939) |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 6:54 PM Author: heady stubborn plaza ladyboy credited post.
this is true for sales jobs in general imo. |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 7:05 PM Author: Cerise bearded boistinker electric furnace Sounds like a reasonable thing to go into, but it seems like companies are massively overpaying recruiters for this stuff.
Anyway, lol @ this: "Human Capital is the future and will emerge as it's own behemoth of an industry in our lifetime" |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 7:06 PM Author: red cruise ship 7 figures for a recruiter rainmaker?
link? |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 8:05 PM Author: balding trailer park Not sure what kind of links I can provide to affirm that statement. Anyone at the partner level at executive search firms has a billable requirement of anywhere from $1MM to $1.5MM. Given that they keep 50% of billings, it's reasonable to assume that, at a minimum, these partners are making $500-600k. That said, there are tiers among partners with some of the biggest rainmakers billing millions of dollars of business. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20869474) |
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Date: March 24th, 2016 9:55 AM Author: Titillating Milk Shrine recruiter i know just made 500k last year moving people from my dying firm to new jobs. the jobs basically filled themselves as the candidates were very qualified and the market was still hot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#30126555) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2015 12:57 PM Author: cordovan charismatic school cafeteria genital piercing can confirm this, know this headhunter guy who is a billionaire (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#28396476) |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 7:12 PM Author: Swollen old irish cottage in other words, just do sales (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20869078) |
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Date: March 24th, 2016 9:20 AM Author: maniacal theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#30126445) |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 8:01 PM Author: balding trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20869431) |
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Date: June 11th, 2012 8:10 PM Author: heady stubborn plaza ladyboy what hours do you work breh? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#20869535) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2015 12:53 PM Author: hateful institution How do I know if I would be good at this tho
What traits make someone good |
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Date: March 24th, 2016 9:11 AM Author: hateful institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#30126417) |
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Date: March 24th, 2016 9:27 AM Author: Pale Church Building Solo lawyer here. Previous big firm credentials.
I don't like the lawyering part of my job but I love the sales part. Sometimes I think about just becoming a legal headhunter. Thoughts on that specifically (as opposed to just executive search firms)? |
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Date: March 24th, 2016 9:33 AM Author: hateful institution Probably a good idea
Listen to your gut |
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Date: April 6th, 2016 4:28 PM Author: hateful institution What personality traits make someone good at this career? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#30214984) |
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Date: April 6th, 2016 5:03 PM Author: Claret Boyish Psychic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#30215295) |
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Date: April 6th, 2016 5:04 PM Author: hateful institution Persistence? Tenacity? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#30215304) |
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Date: April 6th, 2016 5:14 PM Author: hateful institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1968221&forum_id=2#30215393) |