Does being a recruiter pay well?

There is virtually no limit to the amount of money they can make. According to www.glassdoor.com, the national average salary for internal recruiters is $45,360.

What kind of people make good recruiters?

What Qualities Make a Great Recruiter?

• 1) Confidence. There’s a reason that the industry tends to attract extroverts.
• 2) Good communication skills.
• 3) Approachable demeanor.
• 4) Good listener.
• 5) Strong sales skills.
• 6) Target driven.
• 7) Good at multi-tasking.
• 8) Patience.

How much do recruiters make at Facebook?

Facebook Recruiter Salary

	Annual Salary	Hourly Wage
Top Earners	$82,500	$40
75th Percentile	$61,500	$30
Average	$54,277	$26
25th Percentile	$35,000	$17

How long does it take to become a Google recruiter?

3) Google’s hiring practices differ greatly from those of other companies and even experienced Recruiters generally take 3+ months to fully come up to speed.

Is technical recruiting hard to get into?

Like many commission-based jobs, technical recruiting has a pretty low barrier to entry, everything you need to know you can probably learn on the job, and the payouts can be huge. At the same time, however, it is not an easy field to be successful in, in much the same way that consistent, high magnitude successes in sales are difficult.

What’s the most important thing you’ve learned from being a recruiter?

Perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned is that, at the end of the day, one of the biggest parts of a recruiter’s job is to get the right two people in a room together. Regardless of industry or domain or stack or money (within reason of course), chemistry is king.

Should you quit your day job for technical recruiting?

Before getting into the list, one thing I want to stress is that, if you’re thinking about doing this, you shouldn’t quit your day job until you know it’s really something you can do. People, engineers especially, tend to think that technical recruiting is easy money.