Where a recruitment consultant can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a recruitment consultant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Recruitment consultants provide the suitable candidates to employers according to the specific job profile requested. They perform testing and interviewing with job seekers, shortlist few candidates to present to the employers and match candidates to appropriate jobs. Recruitment consultants maintain relationships with employers to offer their services on a more long-term basis.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 69%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 4difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 43required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- dating service consultant 43% covered · difficulty 58.5
- occupational analyst 41% covered · difficulty 61.6
- polygraph examiner 34% covered · difficulty 61.7
- talent acquisition manager 33% covered · difficulty 59.3
- fortune teller 29% covered · difficulty 67.1
- psychic 28% covered · difficulty 64.5
- life coach 28% covered · difficulty 65
- personal shopper 27% covered · difficulty 69.4
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recruitment consultant is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a recruitment consultant already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.