What is the most valuable thing you have learned from your role?

As a recruiter bases in Micron Shanghai, the most valuable thing that I've learnt from this role were:

1. Think and Act Like a Businessmen: Recruiter is a down to earth job in need of completing tons of steps in order to get a right talent in which rarely has any shortcut. Reason for me to say rarely is that I do think shortcut exists, which is getting deep understanding of the business, the business include the product, the tech route, the commercial details, the business managers. Sounds quite complex, right? The investment on the "business acumen" learning could be exhausted at the beginning but once a recruiter come through the most challenge part, he/she would find that hiring a right talent become much easier and could in turn save much more talent and resources comparing with the investment in need for understanding business. For the recruiter could get a vividly picture of the right candidate, know exactly where to find them, good at selling them to hiring managers, and could be quite persuasive in negotiation with both hiring manager and candidates so that they could reach a deal much easier and faster.

2. Hiring is Only the First Step of Building an Employee Friendly Ecosystem: Instead of obsessing with make as much and as quick hiring as I could, I've started to step back and taking actions to create a friendly ecosystem as a recruiter in the past half year. This is a learning that I got from Micron and also my role. Key point here is that getting a talent onboard is not the purpose, getting a talent onboard, providing him/her an working environment that could make them well-being, high efficiency, stable, growth, make internal referral and enjoy a happy like is the purpose. In order to reach the purpose, just focusing on sourcing and recruiting are not enough, we as recruiter should conduct project and provide knowledge & experience to hiring managers and employees so that they could expand their understanding of how to treat a talent and how to be treated as a talent. Of course this is a huge task and recruiter is just a small part of it. Thanks to Micron's people care culture that leads the company and various teams devote much resources and energies into the ecosystem building and we are seeing its growth rapidly day by day.

3. Active, Active, Active: Recruiter talks to many people everyday, so do many other functions in a corporate. One key thing that I learn in my work is that we should always be active, actively share the working progress, achievements, challenges, mistakes, resource in need with stakeholders, actively provide fair feedback to the work of those in collaboration, actively act on the tasks. From my point of view, as long as one is active enough, spending time to learn so called time management is not necessary, active solve the time issues.

Happy new year!