Been working in recruitment in Tokyo for the past few years. Recently it's coming to the point where I'm deciding if this is the career I really want to dedicate my energy towards. Recruitment in general is a high burnout industry and success often comes at the price of your health and wellbeing, especially in the beginning.
The thing I enjoy the most is helping candidates prepare for interviews and seeing their relief and confidence boost after speaking with me. For me – this is much more rewarding than any other aspect of the role, and made me really realise how many smart and skilled people are in the market that dont have enough confidence in their own ability, or other things like having a poorly written resume which dissent highlight their true potential when applying for new roles.
This has made me consider the idea of leaving the recruitment indsutry in the traditional sense, and becoming self employed as a career coach for professionals in the market, as well as people who may be looking to transition from teaching or coming out of language school.
I think services that would be beneficial would be resume writing (English + Japanese), interview prep, job search advice, salary negotiation and LinkedIn profile optimisation.
Just wanted to ask if people thought this would be a viable idea, what price could be possibly charged for these services, or if I should just stick it out in a recruitment company as a normal consultant?
TLDR: Recruiter that enjoys working 1-1 with candidates to prepare for interviews and increase their job search confidence. Should I go solo as a career coach that only helps candidates, or stay as a normal recruiter?
by Last-Masterpiece-598