What do you think of this field? Place C level executives 2-6 times per year and make $400-$600K.... not too shabby. I've met a PE recruiter in this role and she said she hardly works at all and makes $400K minimum each year. Once you establish a solid network it is all about referrals.
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I've heard the going rate for placing a C level exec can be 20% of their yearly salary.
This just supports my feeling that HR is largely useless. It's a very rare case when someone in HR actually knows what a specific job role requires and the type of candidate and compensation needed to fill that position.
I feel like you can’t just group all HR people into that bucket. Talent Acquisition people maybe but there are a couple different groups within HR as a whole and discrediting them all isn’t super accurate.
Someone explained to me once that HR is kind of an invisible hand that you never think of because you never have any issues. However when you do have problems or you are at a company with awful HR it’ll become very evident.
I feel like this kind of applies to IT/Systems people also?
Idk just my ¢2
That's fair - areas like payroll and the benefits groups are certainly crucial. I would amend my statement to say that HR as a talent acquisition/human capital management function is in over their head. In over ten years at several public and private companies, I have yet to personally see HR properly handle workplace disputes, sexual harassment accusations, or deploy seamless onboardings/terminations. Yes - I am aware that there is a fair amount of bias in that statement because we do not always hear about the HR "successes" but some of the failures I have witnessed are so egregious that I can't even comprehend. My experience has always been that there are certain rockstar employees in every HR department that everyone knows to go directly to to get things done.
I don't agree necessarily with the IT/systems comparison though because if the systems don't work, companies immediately grind to a halt. If HR fails at talent acquisition, a recruiter is hired to take over for them. IT/Systems to me is more similar to the Facilities function because it is a more of a day to day necessity for daily operation.
That’s true, I didn’t think about it that way. If a position stays vacant someone else has to just work more.
If the grid goes down the company loses a huge amount of money
I was actually about to come on here to ask what junior headhunters make? I understand the commission structure is something like the firm takes 10-30% of salary of candidates placed as a fee then the actual HH takes 10%(?) of that as commission. But I have no idea how many people it's normal to place per month and how much work that takes.
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