Posted by Jonathan Kidder on October 8, 2021January 27, 2023

To excel as a recruiter and become a leader on your team, it’s important to establish daily routines and set achievable goals. Recruiting requires a significant amount of hard work and dedication. From my experience in the field over the past decade, I’ve found that top-performing recruiters have a few key practices in common, such as setting daily plans and remaining consistent. These fundamental principles are often learned through self-teaching and overcoming personal failures.

Every top billing or highest producing recruiter that I’ve had the chance to meet over the past decade of my recruiting career have all shared basic fundamentals. It starts with creating a daily plan and sticking to it. The fundamentals unfortunately are mostly self-taught and learned from personal failures.

Instead of starting from scratch in your recruiting career. I’ve invested my time by interviewing industry professionals across our space. From these self-discoveries I’ve created a roadmap to help recruiters and sourcers improve quickly. Basically, it’s coming down to time management and building on day-to-day routines.

These simple time-saving fundamentals include everything from setting a daily goal, creating an effective tracker, time blocking, continuous improvement, finding a coach, and much more.

At the end of the day – time and your effort matters. Work smarter and not harder on your team. Create a process that can be copied and improved on. If you do not stay organized and lose focus throughout your day you will end up working longer hours and have less overall impact on your team.

How to Master your Recruiting Day

✓ Time Management Techniques:

Kanban

Creating a large daily to-do list within this method. Stick to this list.

Inbox-Zero

With Inbox-Zero, emails can be prioritized and labeled, making it possible to focus only on the ones that are a top priority. From customizing notification settings to have the option to delegate emails to others, a tool like this will further free up time so you can take care of more important matters.

Eat the Frog Technique

The productivity technique, Eat the Frog, helps with identifying and prioritizing tasks, creating a plan to tackle them, delegating when possible, and avoiding procrastination. If you find it difficult to prioritize, then the Eisenhower Technique will be helpful.

The Eisenhower Technique

This method is named after Dwight Eisenhower, 34th president of the US, whose philosophy was, “two kinds of problems, urgent and important.” With that, he assigned tasks in one of four categories, based on urgency.

Timeboxing Technique

Timeboxing revolves around working in periods of time where you focus on a single activity during whatever timeframe you have allocated. The boxes of time can range from 25–30-minute intervals of time to an hour or so. The concept is similar to the Pomodoro technique.

✓ Continuous Improvement:

Continuous improvement is a definition is simply a method of constantly improving your skills. If you practice continuous improvement, it means that you regularly check where your skills are and find ways to improve them. You never become stagnant in your experience because you are constantly evaluating processes and how they are performing to see if improvement is needed. This is especially important in today’s market, where new technologies are being created at a very high pace.

✓ Track Everything:

Literally track your entire process. This will build a case for your long-term success on any recruiting team. Set weekly goals for sourcing and submitting candidates.

✓ Understand your Personality:

Let other team members know about your personality and how you like to set expectations.

✓ Create Relationships with the Hiring Managers:

Schedule an intake meeting to set clear expectations and goals for long term success.

✓ Find a Mentor:

Go out of your way to find a more seasoned recruiter or sourcer that you can connect with. I meet with several mentors on a monthly basis to discuss my career goals.

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Jonathan Kidder

With more than 12 years of recruitment experience, Jonathan has helped startups and small businesses find the talent they need. He runs the blog WizardSourcer, which explores the latest trends in talent sourcing, provides reviews of recruitment tools, and features interviews with prominent figures in the industry.