people, talent and recruiting
What counts as an achievement for a recruiter on LinkedIn
An achievement for a recruiter is a hire count, a time to hire, and the headcount you supported.
- they screen on
- hires made, time to hire, attrition, headcount supported
- the decision
- They are deciding whether you can fill roles at their pace, and hire count over a period is the only proof.
- questions below
- 5
duty line
Responsible for full-cycle recruiting and supporting hiring managers.
no hires made, no time to hire, no headcount supported
achievement line
Made 64 hires in 18 months across 9 teams, cutting time to hire from 51 days to 29.
Same recruiter, same career. The difference is that somebody asked for the numbers.
The 5 questions that produce those numbers
These are the questions a recruiter screening talent leaders asks on a call. Answer them on paper and your profile writes itself.
the question
why it is asked
unit
1
How many people did you hire, and over what period?
hires made is the first number in every recruiting screen
count plus period
2
What was time to hire or time to fill, and did you move it?
speed is what the hiring managers judge you on
days
3
How many employees did you support, across how many locations?
population size is how a people role is levelled
people
4
What happened to attrition, offer acceptance or engagement scores?
keeping people is the result, hiring them is the activity
%
5
What programme did you build, and how many people went through it?
a built programme is evidence you can operate, not advise
programme plus count
Write your answer to each one down. A figure you cannot remember exactly is still better as a range than as a duty.
Why a recruiter’s profile ends up with none of these numbers in it
You know exactly what a good profile looks like, which is why yours reads like a job description. Yours needs the same numbers you screen other people for.
A grader cannot fix this. It can only reword the lines already on the page, and those lines are the problem — there is no hires made figure in them for it to find. The numbers were never written down, so they have to be asked for.
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