Intern Recruitment Consultant Review
by Hays
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Hays
- 7. Would you recommend Hays to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Hays
Overview
My role involves dealing with clients and candidate. On a daily basis, I would keep in contact with both clients and candidates to understand their current needs. On the candidate side, it would be understand their working requirements. On the client side, it would understanding their business growth and plans for recruitment. My daily role included cold calling companies to gain business and begin building relationships. I would utilize my candidates for marketing.
Skills
I have learnt how to manage my time as it is important to keep a balance between client and candidates in a 360 role. I have also learnt resilience through difficult conversations with candidates and clients. I have learnt how to communicate with a diverse range of people to understand their unique needs and adopt my way of thinking towards this.
Responsibilities
I was given the responsibility to run my own business essentially. I recruited into temporary and contract business support and was allowed to input my own initiative in commercially building this desk. I was also given an extra responsibility to be a talent scout, this involves helping attract graduate for their graduate intake scheme. I become a talent scout in April 2023 and I work alongside the talent acquisition team.
Support & Guidance
I have supportive and very experienced consultants surrounding me that enable me to lean of them for support and guidance. I also have an supportive manager who could guide me with any difficult situations. At the start of the internship, I went through intensive training which equipped me with a wealth of knowledge to implement on my desk. Also, I have been given refresher and new training modules through my internships to support me.
Culture
The company culture is a great atmosphere. In the office, we have weekly activities and get togethers to boost office morale.
Your Impressions
I have learnt a lot through my internships and it is has equipped me with knowledge into the industrial world. I have enjoyed working alongside experienced consultants and learning about their career development.
Yes
I would properly looking into the job description to see if it is definitely something you would be interested in.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Recruitment
East of England
July 2023
