The IOR have launched a Recruitment & HR Professional Career Map and a Agency Recruitment Professional Career Map (both on this page here).
The idea behind them is that they show salary benchmarking and career mobility between the entire people and human resourcing profession.
I’m going to have to quote straight from the information Azmat (Director-General of the Institute of Recruiters) sent to me;
It’s essential for business owners and their staff to get a better overview of where they sit in comparison to others within the same profession.
Our career map guiding you through your career is an invaluable tool to encourage people to choose recruitment as a profession, and stay in it. It includes salary benchmarking and illustrates how your career compares to internal recruiters and HR, giving you a real sense of direction and goals.
HR professionals want to work closer with recruiters who have a complete understanding of recruiting talent combined with deep sector knowledge.
I certainly have to agree with that final point and I think that it’s a shame recruitment has such high attrition rates and comparatively little investment in training.
I personally found the salary benchmarking to be too broad and within recruitment there are so many “unique situations” (eg, for the right job a recruitment admin could easily earn £30,0000, however, I guess both these points are valid with any similar salary survey data.
I was interested in the fact that career mobility occurs only at HR assistant/recruitment consultant phase. Azmat says that in terms of career mobility the focus is around the recruitment education. Recruiters taking their qualifications will be part qualified in HR at the recruitment consultant phase and will only need to take one additional module to be fully qualified in internal recruiting. So, in reality career mobility can and does occur at any stage.
Overall I think it’s visually nice to see the full cycle a recruiter could follow and would be interested in whether this can be used a tool to encourage recruitment agencies to invest more in training. Would love some feedback on what you think of it.
