Recruitment is an exciting, fast paced industry with lots of challenges and opportunities.

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Looking For Your Next Career Challenge in
Recruitment? Why Rec to Rec Could be The Right
Move For You!
Prepared by: Cheryl Wing

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Recruitment is an exciting, fast paced industry with lots of challenges and opportunities. If
you are a recruiter and feel like you want a new challenge after a few years in the same niche,
then a good option could be to switch to working as a recruiter for recruiters in a rec to rec
environment. Your knowledge and experience can really help you to find the right people for
recruitment companies in your specialist area, and help you guide other candidates looking
for jobs like yours.
What makes recruitment to recruitment work interesting?
Recruitment to recruitment is a great sphere to move into after a successful period as a
recruiter, because it allows you to take your skills to the next level. Everybody you deal with,
that is your clients, your colleagues, and the candidates you are trying to place, all live and
breathe recruitment, so you need to be at the top of your game. You also get a chance to help
people just like you make the right choices when it comes to their own careers. Basically,
everything you have learned from your time in the business is useful every day.
How do you move into rec to rec?
Recruitment to recruitment agents are usually people with a good amount of experience in
other recruitment fields. Just as recruitment agencies deal with specialist niches, recruitment
to recruitment agencies also specialise or have people within their team who specialise in
dealing with clients in certain areas. This means if you have spent five years or so working as
a recruiter for the financial services industry, the logical move for you would be into handling
financial services recruiters as a “rec2rec” agent.

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What are the important skills for a recruitment to recruitment specialist to possess?
As you would expect, a lot of the skills required for a successful career in rec2rec are very
similar to those needed in any other area of recruitment. This means that as well as a good
background in your own recruitment field, you should also be able to demonstrate:
1. Excellent networking skills. You need to be great at building valuable relationships with
all of the key people, from recruiters you may want to place (even those who aren’t actively
looking for work) to potential clients.
2. Top notch research skills. Finding the meat of what is required for a role and matching it
to strong candidates is crucial. So many recruiters in other niches get by keyword searching
CVs to find potential matches, but the kind of mistakes this can lead to will be spotted
immediately when the people you are dealing with are recruiters themselves.

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3. Good time management and organisation skills. You’ll need to stay on top of a lot of
roles and a lot of candidates, so it’s vital that you are reliable and organised.
If you are interested in a new challenge that can be rewarding both in terms of money and
morale, and you can say you are strong in all of these areas, then recruitment to
recruitment is certainly worth your consideration as your next career step!
Till next time,
Cheryl

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GSR2R Your Award Winning Expert Rec to Rec Agency – With a Different Approach
At GSR2R we opened the doors for business in July 2001, placing the first of thousands of
Recruitment Consultants just days later. Since 2001 we’ve celebrated more than 10 years as the
established Rec to Rec company recruiters go to when they are looking to move.
Since GSR2R started as a Rec to Rec consultancy the recruitment industry has changed. However,
one thing remains the same, which is that GSR2R provides the highest quality Rec to Rec service to
our clients and candidates. We keep to our vision of providing an uncompromising service, working
with the best candidates and clients the industry has to offer.
Isn’t it nice to finally find a Rec to Rec company that has recognised experts in the field? Ready
to take action now? We have vacancies in ALL the fastest growing sectors, call us on 020 3178 8118.
At GSR2R our drive and determination to become the leading name in the Recruitment to
Recruitment sector has helped us build long-standing connections with our clients and candidates.
These relationships are the foundation of our business success today.
Winning the Best Recruitment to Recruitment Award for Outstanding Excellence in 2007, we are told
that our approach is refreshing. We operate with the same principles that we always have – to be
the best at what we do and put passion into how we do it.
We are proud to have helped our Trainee Recruitment Consultants throughout their careers. Many
of whom we still work with as Directors of their own companies in the future.
Are you ready to work with an award winning and established Rec to Rec company? Call us and
speak to one of our expert Consultants now on 0203 178 8118.
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