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    Considering a career as an international development recruiter

    Recruiting for international development organizations can be a fun and rewarding career but it often gets overlooked by people trying to get into the sector, or written off as a "pink collar job." Devex spoke to five development recruiters to challenge those recruitment stereotypes and to find out everything you need to know about the job.

    By Sophie Edwards

    Working as a recruiter is one of those jobs which is often overlooked by people hoping to get into the international development industry, but it can be a stimulating and rewarding profession offering opportunities for foreign travel and also entry points into other careers within the sector, according to development recruiters.

    Recruiting may also not necessarily be the job you imagine — there are different types of recruiting involving different skill sets and activities, including home office, project and proposal recruitment.

    Furthermore, the role of recruitment in international development is often considered more of a business development role than a human resources one and many recruitment positions report to business development or project units instead of HR. In a 2016 Devex survey of recruiters, only 45 percent said that recruiting fell under human resources in their organization.

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      Sophie Edwards is a Devex Contributing Reporter covering global education, water and sanitation, and innovative financing, along with other topics. She has previously worked for NGOs, and the World Bank, and spent a number of years as a journalist for a regional newspaper in the U.K. She has a master's degree from the Institute of Development Studies and a bachelor's from Cambridge University.

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