I remember the very good ole times again in the mid 90’s when Telecom was booming! Job orders were abundant and candidates were climbing more than each other. I was fortuitous to be assigned as a Telecommunications Recruiter with one of the largest Staffing firms in the environment out of higher education.
Telecom was not the sexiest division and line of enterprise for a Recruiter and Staffing Income Govt back then and I cannot say considerably has improved. In numerous techniques, this is a fantastic matter! A single of the ideal methods to come to be prosperous in Staffing is to carve out a market. Master about an industry and segment sub classes inside of. Grow to be an authority figure.
I dipped my toe into the IT staffing current market a few yrs back, and as significantly as I attempted to take pleasure in this pursuit I could not come across the passion. No question, IT Recruiting is a profitable business enterprise model and plenty of recruiters and income executives have been unbelievably productive! It just was not for me. The opposition was fierce, the options appeared saturated, and our support offering was one of quite a few.
Oh Telecom, I just can not give up you!
As I bounce again into Telecommunications recruiting, I have realized the landscape and technology has improved substantially. You see, back again in the hay working day, I was the PBX King! If my clientele wanted a SL1 Meridian Technician or a NEC 2400 Engineer, I was their go-to-person.
The terms usually made use of again then bundled:
-Switch Technician
-Cable Puller
-Crucial Process Technician
-Central Workplace Technician
-OSP Engineer
-NOC Engineer/Supervisor
When some of these terms and technologies nevertheless exist, it is no more time the demand from customers nor taste of the day.
Wireless…
I am learning speedily that Wireless is the below and now. I experience like a 24 year previous yet again starting up out in the enterprise. I’m learning a remarkable total about the Wireless marketplace, tendencies, skill-sets, and rising technologies. It’s incredibly remarkable to be back.
Today, to talk the Wireless Telecommunications lingo a person should come to be familiar with these few conditions:
-DAS
-Modest Cell
-Backhaul
-LTE
-UMTS
Every thing I’m looking through and learning in discussion with Wireless market gurus issue to expansion and dollar symptoms around following 5+ a long time. It is thrilling to be aspect of a renaissance of kinds within just an marketplace manufactured up of legitimate individuals. My most effective interactions were usually created inside the Telecom vertical.
Telecom, you can converse about us, but you cannot converse devoid of us!