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.
Also known as job placement officer, temporary labour officer, employment agent, employee recruiter, job placement consultant, temporary labour agent, recruiting process consultant, head hunter, recruitment officer.
Professionals 43 skills on file 12 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: employment and vocational integration consultant, 83%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
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
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A recruitment consultant needs 23 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- prepare for job interview communication, collaboration and creativity
- video conferencing tool arts and humanities
- ensure gender equality in the workplace assisting and caring
- profile people management skills
- support employability of people with disabilities management skills
- job market offers business, administration and law
- hire human resources management skills
- human resource management business, administration and law
- maintain privacy of service users assisting and caring
- document interviews information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a recruitment consultant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- human resources officer 72% covered · difficulty 35.7
- employment and vocational integration consultant 70% covered · difficulty 37.1
- employment agent 64% covered · difficulty 43.6
- human resources assistant 63% covered · difficulty 44.8
- human resources manager 38% covered · difficulty 65.7
- occupational analyst 36% covered · difficulty 67.3
- talent acquisition manager 17% covered · difficulty 82.6
Look up another occupation
Recruitment consultant is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a recruitment consultant’s work. 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.