Reed Recruitment..

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Anyone worked for them?? Thoughts??

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Interesting replies, is it a case of like any other sales type role if your missing your targets all the time then it's not worth you being kept on by the company or is it a case of the targets being over the top and people expected to pull off wonders??


Graduate positions will be difficult in any major sales role if you haven't got previous sales experience and a thick skin. I guess I'm just trying to find out if anyone has managed to have a decent span with them!

Edited by TOENHEEL on Monday 23 April 00:43

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Had a local interview last week and then in Leeds for my assessment day yesterday. Its a Recruitment consultant position im looking at!

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singlecoil said:

Sales, then, basically.

Yes sales..

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As far as candidates go its purely sales as your selling their attributes, clients however there is a bit more of a consultative approach as you need to do your homework and find them suitable people. Having experienced recruitment from the other side in other words searching for work I've got a good idea of what I would do differently to some of the consultants I've used in the past.

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okgo said:

You will find that you are not given much room to 'be different' you'll have minimum phone times, certain protocol that MUST be followed, you won't be allowed to email etc.

Its very much a job where you will hammer the phone, and the results will come from being able to hammer it more than the rest. At low level recruitment that is all it is I would think. The few recruiters I've dealt with at low level salary jobs seem to take this approach, and its not because they want to...

Thanks for the info, should hear something in the next few days hopefully. I thought that at least with a company such as Reed they are a big name that most people know about so when cold calling clients you have that little bit credibility over say a small firm that no ones heard of. All pie in the sky yet really as they might not want be after yesterday ha.

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Well I was told that I would hear something 48 hours after the assessment day it's now 3 days and an email I sent earlier at 2pm was replied to with a promise of a phone call this afternoon with some news... It's almost 6pm now looks like they are living up to their reputation...