Personnel Counselor versus Recruiter

Personal initiative: You send your résumé in response to an online job posting or newspaper ad or hand it to a corporate representative at a career fair.

Recruiters

A personnel counselor waits for you to walk in the door. He or she matches you up with a job order that he or she already has or finds a job that fits your specifications. If the person does not understand what you do now or what you want to do in your next job, it will be very difficult to make a job match. Therefore, be willing to educate this personnel counselor on your career field, the intricacies of your job