Age: 26

Role: Recruitment Consultant, BermudaREcruit Ltd./The James Partnership

What is your job? The chief priority of our recruitment and executive-search service is to help companies fill their recruitment needs. To do this, I am continually on the lookout for well-qualified candidates with marketable skills.

To help strong candidates put their best foot forward, I might assist them with updating their résumés, provide them with career options or advise on effective interview techniques. When we have a well-qualified candidate who doesn't match a current client opening, we still try to help them find work.

As a recruitment consultant, my clients depend on me to understand not only their business but also my candidates and their individual employment needs. In a competitive hiring environment, this is crucial.

I have a background in psychology as well as a Master's degree in counselling and psychometric testing, which is a method for measuring people's interests, abilities, intelligence and personality. Both skill sets greatly assist me in giving my clients and candidates the best possible advice.

What is your favourite part of the job? My favourite part of the job is creating a great match between a client and a candidate. It may sound straightforward, but as any HR professional knows, there are many nuances involved in achieving that fit.

Another aspect of the job I enjoy is using psychometric testing to reveal a candidate's strengths and interests. It's not a pass/fail test, rather, it's a powerful and helpful tool that helps us fit a candidate with a culture and position where he or she can best succeed.

What is your least favourite part of the job? My least favourite part of the job is that the job is never done. But that's pretty closely linked with one of the best parts of the job, which is that each day is different than the last, if incredibly full. I'm never bored.

What is your most interesting experience at work? I once worked with a very senior candidate who had been working for a company for 15 years. He was applying for another position within the organisation, however, when the testing was done to determine if his skills and personality matched the new job, it turned out that he wasn't a good fit. The job went to someone else.

When I met with this gentleman to give him the news, his first reaction was surprise. But thinking further, he realised how much he disliked his current position and how far he had strayed, at 40 years old, from who he really was and the type of work that really interested him.

Over the course of several sessions, we talked about his present job, his personality and the gap between his expectations and the work he was currently doing. He made the decision to resign and begin a new career. Together, we sought a company that suited his personality and where his expectations could be met.

Some time later, he contacted me to tell me how the career shift had changed his life and how happy he was in his new work. The real satisfaction I felt from helping him made me know that I, too, was in the right line of work.

What would you be doing otherwise? I mentioned earlier my interest in psychometric testing-in fact I hold a master's degree in it. If I weren't working in recruitment, I might be developing psychometric tests for others to use. I'm still young so chances are good that I can make time for that in the future, but recruitment is my passion.