A Day in the Life of Dana

Dana works as a Recruitment Consultant in the Occupational Therapy Team, and is responsible for securing jobs for occupational therapists at NHS hospitals and private healthcare clients.

A day in the life of Dana

I live in South West London and work in the office in central London, near Chancery Lane, five days a week. For me, a typical day would be:

7:30am - Get up, have breakfast, get ready and leave for work

8:05am - Catch the tube towards central London and catch up on whatever I am reading (at the moment I’m halfway through Death and The Penguin by Andrey Kurkov)

8:40am - Get to the office early to have time to make a cup of tea and catch up with my team

9:00am – 1:30pm - Work in the office, doing tasks such as:

• Attending team meetings
• Meeting the locums I am helping find a placement
• Keeping in contact with clients to be updated on their staffing needs
• Contract management activities

1:30pm – 2:30pm - Grab lunch around Leather Lane market with my colleagues or my friends that work in nearby offices

2:30pm – 5:30pm - Go back to the office, and continue doing tasks like:

• Sourcing new potential Occupational Therapists and reaching out to them to extend my services to help them find new jobs and speak with my existing locums about new opportunities
• Checking in with the placed locums to make sure they are happy and help plan what is next in their career

5:30pm - Clock out and get the tube back to my local station

6:30pm - Arrive home and unwind by going to the gym or meeting my friends for dinner

Three key skills that I feel are at the root of my success are adaptability, being friendly and a strong team member. Recruitment is dynamic, so adaptability and agility are important. Every day I am speaking with clients and locums, building relationship to help understand their needs to enable successful placements. As a team we work closely together to achieve our collective goals, support each other and share achievements.