Agency Recruiter Mock Interview
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Talented Agency Recruiters are entrepreneurial. Give me an example of how you have embraced an entrepreneurial mindset.
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
To be a successful Agency Recruiter, you need to think like a business owner, a sales professional, a job seeker, and a hiring manager - all rolled into one! This multifaceted skill set requires you to be highly entrepreneurial by nature.
Ways that you might display an entrepreneurial mindset:
- Looking at challenges from all sides, all the time.
- Happily face challenges and learn from them.
- Embracing a lot of variety in your day.
- Exploring new ways to provide value to your clients.
Discuss the ways that you have embraced an entrepreneurial mindset in your recruitment career. To make your answer more memorable, be sure to give a specific story-based example using the STAR framework (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"As any smart entrepreneur would do, I read a lot of books and keep myself educated on negotiation, sales, and persuasion techniques. I never shy from a challenge and always have my agency's profitability and reputation in mind. I also put myself in my client's shoes and think of ways to add value to their pain points. (Situation) For instance, last month, I had a client who did not want to give me an exclusive job order. She wanted to see how fast I could work compared to other agencies she occasionally works with. (Task) I knew it was up to me to change her mind about giving her job order to multiple agencies. (Action) I spoke like an entrepreneur and moved the conversation away from how I would benefit from an exclusive job order. Instead, I focused on the benefits to her if the job order was exclusive to me. I used my persuasion gift, and the client agreed to give me the job order exclusively for 30 days. (Result) I presented my client with three strong candidates after just two weeks, and she made a job offer to one of my candidates yesterday. My next step is to ask this client for full exclusivity on all upcoming projects."
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