Permanent Staffing Recruiter Mock Interview

Practice 30 Permanent Staffing Recruiter interview questions covering client development, candidate sourcing, and placement metrics.

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What are your top 3 most important activities as a recruiter?

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Rachelle Enns

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.

"From what I have read in the job posting, it's important that I spend a lot of time interviewing candidates, performing a variety of business development activities, and following up with my candidates. Documentation is also an important function, ensuring that my accounts remain up to date at all times."

Rachelle Enns

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.

The hiring authority is looking to see that you have a full understanding of your responsibilities as a recruiter. By discussing what you believe to be the top 3 activities you will be doing in this role, you are showing the interviewer that you have an understanding of the job.

If you are currently working as a recruiter, discuss what you now take care of in your role, on a daily or weekly basis. If you are new to the recruitment world, lean on what you know from research and the job description or job posting.

Rachelle Enns

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.

"The top three most important activities as a recruiter are to develop a solid candidate pool, create trusting client relationships, and dive into business development. These three tasks will ensure that I have a strong amount of job orders, enough candidates to quickly fill my positions, and a great reputation to build on."

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My top 3 most important activities as a recruiter are acting as the primary point of contact for clientele, generating client business and delivering on resumes and interviews, and delivering quality results for clients by matching the best person with the job.

Rachelle's Feedback

Good! It seems you have a strong grasp of your core duties. Try adding in some detail regarding the volume of work you currently manage, as far as these duties go. I have provided a starter, below.

"My top 3 most important activities as a recruiter are to act as the primary point of contact for my list of 60 clients, generate new business in the form of at least four new clients per month...."

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Building a solid pool, collecting a diverse assortment of resumes and not getting stuck in a specific "type" of candidate. Developing questions for phone screening/interview that are effective and out of the box that will delve into their behavior and their specific experience to paint a clear picture of the applicant's abilities. Lastly, it is SO important to be charismatic, kind, compassionate, and overall helpful. The process isn't easy for everyone, and you want candidates to feel they can trust you and come to you with questions or concerns. Moreover, you are the face of a brand! You must represent your brand very well.

Rachelle's Feedback

Awesome! You are SO right about being charismatic, kind, compassionate, and helpful. Your answer brings a lot of energy, which any interviewer should appreciate.

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30Permanent Staffing Recruiter Interview Questions & Answers

Competency

1.What are your top 3 most important activities as a recruiter?

Experience

2.Are you accustomed to working in a bullpen environment or do you have a personal office?

Compatibility

3.Talented recruiters are entrepreneurial. Give me an example of how you have embraced an entrepreneurial mindset.

Behavioral

4.How do you treat candidates not selected for the job? Walk me through your process.

Experience

5.What is the most critical area of training for a new recruiter?

Scenario Based

6.What steps would you take if your newly placed candidate quit without notice?

Competency

7.How do you use social media and other online tools in your recruitment process?

Competency

8.Talk to me about your level of proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter.

Accomplishment

9.How many permanent placements did you make last year?

Experience

10.Walk me through the types of placements you have made in your recruitment career. In which industries are most interested?

Creative Thinking

11.How do you use data and analytics in your recruitment process?

Diligence

12.As a perm recruiter, which publications and resources do you turn to the most?

Career Goals

13.What does the term personal branding mean to you? Are you satisfied with your personal brand?

Experience

14.What does the term attrition mean, and what are the biggest causes of employee attrition rates?

Diligence

15.How do you properly vet potential new clients? Is it necessary to you to that your clients are ethical, or will you take any job order?

Experience

16.Do you have experience guiding candidates through job offer negotiations?

Customer Service

17.How do you help your clients to make sound hiring decisions?

Experience

18.Tell me three details a recruiter should never include in a job posting.

Experience

19.Do you have experience writing resumes, and coaching candidates on how to best present themselves to a client?

Problem Solving

20.If you had a highly skilled candidate, but their appearance was terrible, would you present them to your client?

Creative Thinking

21.When interviewing a candidate, what is the most important question you could ask?

Experience

22.Recruitment requires a lot of selling. Do you have any sales training?

Diligence

23.How often do you look for opportunities to approach potential new clients?

Experience

24.In which industry are you best versed, when it comes to permanent staffing needs?

Experience

25.Do you have experience using an ATS? Which applicant tracking systems do you know best?

Communication

26.How do you maintain relationships with your clients?

Communication

27.What would you do if a client asked something unethical of you?

Performance

28.How is your recruitment performance measured in your current role?

Salary

29.Are you comfortable being paid on a 100% commission basis?

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Permanent Staffing Recruiter Mock Interview

What are your top 3 most important activities as a recruiter?

30Permanent Staffing Recruiter Interview Questions & Answers

1.What are your top 3 most important activities as a recruiter?

2.Are you accustomed to working in a bullpen environment or do you have a personal office?

3.Talented recruiters are entrepreneurial. Give me an example of how you have embraced an entrepreneurial mindset.

4.How do you treat candidates not selected for the job? Walk me through your process.

5.What is the most critical area of training for a new recruiter?

6.What steps would you take if your newly placed candidate quit without notice?

7.How do you use social media and other online tools in your recruitment process?

8.Talk to me about your level of proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter.

9.How many permanent placements did you make last year?

10.Walk me through the types of placements you have made in your recruitment career. In which industries are most interested?

11.How do you use data and analytics in your recruitment process?

12.As a perm recruiter, which publications and resources do you turn to the most?

13.What does the term personal branding mean to you? Are you satisfied with your personal brand?

14.What does the term attrition mean, and what are the biggest causes of employee attrition rates?

15.How do you properly vet potential new clients? Is it necessary to you to that your clients are ethical, or will you take any job order?

16.Do you have experience guiding candidates through job offer negotiations?

17.How do you help your clients to make sound hiring decisions?

18.Tell me three details a recruiter should never include in a job posting.

19.Do you have experience writing resumes, and coaching candidates on how to best present themselves to a client?

20.If you had a highly skilled candidate, but their appearance was terrible, would you present them to your client?

21.When interviewing a candidate, what is the most important question you could ask?

22.Recruitment requires a lot of selling. Do you have any sales training?

23.How often do you look for opportunities to approach potential new clients?

24.In which industry are you best versed, when it comes to permanent staffing needs?

25.Do you have experience using an ATS? Which applicant tracking systems do you know best?

26.How do you maintain relationships with your clients?

27.What would you do if a client asked something unethical of you?

28.How is your recruitment performance measured in your current role?

29.Are you comfortable being paid on a 100% commission basis?

30.What questions do you have for me?