Working in the world of recruitment can be a pretty high pressured job, you often have to work to tight deadlines and have a lot of responsibility resting on the decisions that you have to make.

To be a successful recruitment agent you will need to be a great judge of character and be able to match a successful candidate to a suitable role where both employer and employee will be happy with what’s being offered.

As a recruitment agent having good connections will also benefit you greatly as there will be positions come up that you will be expected to head-hunt specific individuals for. Being on social media such as LinkedIn will also help here as it will give you some professional connection that you could use for recruitment.

Over all it can be a high stress position for a dedicated individual but offers great rewards with high levels of commission and often good company benefits.