An Executive, Consultant or Recruiter…?? This was just the beginning.

First year of college revolved around various bones, muscles, cartilages, RBC’s and whatever other structures were around these things. However, during the first few days at ‘The Recruiters’ I was surrounded by terms like Statutory Audit, OD Training, Market Intelligence, Branding etc.

Coming from a background of Physiotherapy with almost 2.5 years of clinical experience, dealing with patients from a 2 year old to an 80 year old, treating them for their pain & deformities, same disease might be treated differently for different ages; same treatment might affect 2 people in different ways. One person might get cured right away, other could take months. Sounds intriguing and complicated, doesn’t it??... Now how about this, you’ve searched for days for a position keeping the minutest of details and company requirements in mind and found the best fit. But the company doesn’t feel the same way about him or the position just expires or may be the person isn’t interested or doesn’t reach for the scheduled interview or refuses the offer or even worse, the biggest problem companies facing these days, candidate takes the offer and is no where to be seen on the Joining Date. Here your mind boggles and life gets complicated!

But one thing which is common in the scenarios, the career I gave up and the career I chose is that the complications are only from the outside. Once you are an intrinsic part of the field, it’s pretty evident that all it takes is your intelligence to point out the correct problem. Solutions are already there.

Whether it is understanding one’s type of pain and finding the best cure to it or finding the best fitment candidate and making him understand why this offer is the best option for him to take, the best part is you get blessings and appreciation from both; once the cure has been done as well as when the offer has been made. Either ways, I’ve been blessed with the power to have an affect on one’s life. Personally when I go to a restaurant I prefer to have lots of variety to choose from and luckily I get to do the same at ‘The Recruiters’. Different positions from different sectors to work on in a days work, choosing from a vast pool of the most competent candidates strewn all across the globe. It’s fascinating when in a day’s work once you’re talking to may be a CA and then to a Marketing Professional or once to an Executive level candidate and next to a COO candidate, every individual having absolutely different mind sets and personalities. You talk to each one of them with different “dialect” to help them reach their respective destinations with ease. Being a recruiter you always have the power to make a difference in one’s life.

My transition from a Therapist to a Recruiter wasn’t an unwieldy travel. Not only because of a few similarities between the two but also the triumph you feel at the end of the day. However, the learning has been extensive and tremendous. In a span of hardly 4 months, I feel I have the knowledge of various trends, market values, branding and lots of other intrinsic detail in the industry which has given me the confidence to make my presence felt in the large ocean of the corporate. As Don William, Jr. has rightly quoted “The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” So my journey as a recruiter has just begun with a Long-Long Way To Go!!!