Outsourced

7 months are more than enough to establish a routine. Every single morning, I was waiting for the yellow metro, standing right in front of the Vörösmarty utca sign at the first station, because I knew that that's where the last doors open. I sat on the same seat every morning. Sometime between 8.30 and 8.33, I changed to line 2 at Deák tér and I stood right in front of the half-naked ladies - the image of two statues - waiting for the metro every morning. Besides the great works of art and the fact that pretty breasts are always nice to look at, that was where the doors opened. So, at one point, I had enough and worked out another way to the office, including the yellow metro and tram nr. 4/6. To bring a little variety into my mornings. At that point, I had little idea that my routine would change quite dramatically.

It was only two weeks ago when the idea of outsourcing me to a client came up. RA, of course, has dozens of clients, but this one - let's call it The Client - is pretty huge, quite difficult and they were the ones whose vacancies were used by my team leader to train me. From July onward, I was the one who dealt with The Client the most in our office and consequently, I collected quite some knowledge about the organization, the vacancies and the procedures. I attended their own training on competences and a lecture for the agencies. So, I was very involved. Then, when one of their recruiters decided to quit, they asked for our help and proposed that an on-site recruiter would be able to help them best. My team leader asked whether I wanted to be the one to work for them on-site and I didn't think for a second before I said yes.

It's exciting to spend 3/5 of my week in a large multinational corporation and to see where and in what circumstances my placements - past and future - would be working in. Everything is regulated, everything revolves around data protection, you have to fill out an sign millions of papers even before you are let in and then you can only pass doors with your magnetic card and you read that "tailgating is forbidden and is a security incident" in front of every door. Even the screen saver is about security incidents. You would expect that a bunch of zombies are working at such a place, but that's not the case. I met a couple of managers and they are completely normal, quite nice actually. And the recruitment team is also very cool, they are very open, happy to chat, very chill, and because the organization is full of foreigners, I can finally speak English again.

So, now I have to think about where to go to work every morning. 3 days at The Client, 2 days in the RA; I'm in an exceptional situation. It's unsure how long this will last, but it seems that I'll be outsourced for a couple of months at least. It's a great learning opportunity, not to mention that every recruiter is dreaming of working on the corporate side one day. I'm too junior to have got bored of recruiting in an agency, but in a couple of years I might be able to build on this experience when applying for a job in a large corporation. You never know. I'm not sure how long I can stay on-site, but I'll keep my eyes open, build a network and do my job.