New Team Leader in Recruitment: How Can I Start Strong and Lead Effectively?

Hi all,

My name is Meera. I am working in a placement consultancy for the past 7 months as an Executive Recruiter after completing my MBA in HR. Being a fresher, first of all, I was handling junior-level recruitments. Now, I have been promoted to Team Leader. In this role, I will be handling senior-level recruitments and managing two executive recruiters under me. Can anyone provide me with tips on how to have a good start as a Team Leader? I am confident that I can perform well in this role, but I aim to bring some innovative changes. Please share some advice on good recruitment practices and leadership.

Looking forward to your response.

Thank you,
Meera

Hello friend,

It is good to know that you have been given a higher level of responsibility. You need to decide on how to train and develop the people reporting to you. From your own experience, you can understand the best way of doing it. You need to delegate, provide support, motivate, and give direction to your team members. You should identify problem areas and solve them so that your team will be able to achieve faster and better results.

Regarding the recruitment process, you can consider improving it in terms of cost, time, and success rates. How can you improve speed and reduce cost? If you are recruiting for clients, what is the retention rate of the people recruited? How can you ensure that the candidate is the best fit for the job?

Hope this will help.

Regards,
Nishikant