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How A Recruiter Presents Your Credentials To A Client

When a recruiter presents your marketable skills to a prospective client, he/she wants to show how your employment will benefit both the client’s company and the hiring manager. Leader’s recruiters work at presenting you on a professional, personal, and bottom-line level. You can help them do a better job in preparing their presentation by providing them with your perspective on what features and benefits you offer to your current employer.

What specifically have you done to improve profits, reduce costs, foster goodwill in the workplace, and make your manager’s job more rewarding? Make a table listing your features in the left column, any significant accomplishments in the center column, and what benefits your employer received in the right column. Start with your most recent Features/ Accomplishments / Benefits and work back in time. Try to be very specific and include numbers, quantifiable measures where possible.

Features: Facts about your Professional self. What is YOUR role in the workplace?

Accomplishments: Measurable results that YOU obtained from your efforts that are significant in your professional workplace.

Benefits: What value your employer received from YOU and your efforts based on one of your Features or Accomplishments.

Your completed table will be a useful interview tool. It will allow you to quickly get to the point of why an employer should interview you and offer you an opportunity. If your table is seems weak, you should consider opportunities both at your current employer and with future employers that will enhance your value in the marketplace.

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