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Outsourcing must first start with basics like research and name gathering but can later include recruiting, prepping, and even marketing and deal running. To give you an example of what this might look like consider a full practice solo recruiter who hires a researcher/junior recruiter to research, name gather and make some basic recruiting calls. This allows the recruiter to do more business development and handle more "deals" thus creating more challenges. The researcher/junior recruiter performs so well that he or she is now allowed to begin handling all activities with one or two clients. This creates a need for junior recruiter #2 as junior recruiter #1 is starting to grow. Soon junior recruiter #1 begins to market and gets clients; as well as manage some of the existing clients which results in less recruiting. There are now two junior recruiters plus the senior recruiter. Flash forward five years and the team has grown to eight people. Roles have been better defined, career paths have been built based on increasing responsibilities and financial rewards, and the practice has grown significantly. Now the senior recruiter/team leader must play a role in the practice by working on the most challenging issues only, directing the team while managing and leading effectively, training new team members that are replaced or added and handling more strategic related issues. How can that person be bored? Is that person a hamster on a wheel going around and around? NO! Will that person have to develop new skills and abilities to take on those additional responsibilities? YES! This is where the challenge comes from. If it grows too fast, the result is stress, which is bad. However, without growth comes boredom and with boredom comes burn out.
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