{"id":4303,"date":"2016-04-18T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:33:22","slug":"my-recruitment-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/04\/18\/my-recruitment-career\/","title":{"rendered":"My recruitment career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4304\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2016\/04\/SophieBailey.jpg\" alt=\"SophieBailey\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>I\u2019ve always been interested in the hospitality industry, particularly in the hotel and restaurant side of things. I didn\u2019t want to do anything purely academic, so the course at Bournemouth seemed just the right fit for me; a good balance of theory and hands on practical stuff with a placement year at the end. I really enjoyed my time there and graduated in 2005. When I graduated my priority was getting a job straight away, for financial reasons, and I didn\u2019t find it too difficult. I started in hospitality recruitment with a view to researching different companies and deciding where to start my career, but I soon realised recruitment was exactly the right job for me.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years on and I\u2019m still with the same company so it must have been a good decision. I found my degree to be a real asset because it gave me such an understanding of the industry at every level.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy the variety of my role at Leisurejobs.com. I\u2019ve just returned to the company after having my second child and I\u2019m now managing all the accounts I\u2019ve built up over the last six years with our online division. As an account manager most of my time is spent liaising with clients about their recruitment campaigns, establishing their current recruitment needs and advising them how best to use advertising products to push their job vacancies. Leisurejobs is a very fast paced company, proactive and reactive, and it\u2019s one where your opinion really counts. I love working with such a great bunch of people and hearing success stories from clients \u2013 we really are helping people find jobs and helping companies fill vacancies \u2013 that\u2019s very satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many opportunities out there now for people who are just graduating. It helps a lot if you research the industry you want to work in so you can be well prepared for your job interviews. I\u2019d definitely advise people not to shy away from entry level positions. If you\u2019re prepared to get stuck in from the beginning you\u2019ll find your qualification will be a great help as you work your way up. This is a fantastic industry to work in and your time at Bournemouth will give you a great head start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sophie Bailey, BA (Hons) <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/courses\/ba-hons-international-hospitality-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Hospitality Management<\/a> graduate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always been interested in the hospitality industry, particularly in the hotel and restaurant side of things. I didn\u2019t want to do anything purely academic, so the course at Bournemouth seemed just the right fit for me; a good balance of theory and hands on practical stuff with a placement year at the end. I&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/04\/18\/my-recruitment-career\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about My recruitment career<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,130,48,688,689,345,687,40],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-careers-in-recruitment","tag-graduate-stories","tag-international-hospitality-management","tag-sophie-bailey","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13771,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions\/13771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}