How to go from lead Recruiter to Recruitment Manager?

Hi All,

I’ve been in recruiting for over 7 years, and I have 5 years of gym management experience before I entered into recruitment. I transitioned out of gym management bc I transferred my skills as manager to recruiter. Which bc I was in charge of hiring and sourcing employees had a lot of transferable skills. That was about 5 years ago when the job market was a little softer to transitions. From there; I landed a Tech Recruiter role in a small Health tech startup and worked my way up, I helped build out their recruitment team from the ground up bc I was their first recruiter and was promoted quickly to Sr Tech Recruiter, from there Meta reached out and I landed a Sr. Technical Recruiter role there at a level 5 (which is the highest level before management) where I recruited for Sr Software Engineers and Sr. Machine Learning Engineers. Sadly I was part of those FAANG mass layoffs after a year working there and my entire team was laid off, including my director who worked at Meta for 10 yrs.

Luckily my prior company, the Health Tech Startup wanted me back and offered me a promoted role to Sr. Recruitment Lead with a huge pay bump. I gladly accepted. Where I lead a team of 4 recruiters in addition to doing full cycle recruiting.

Unfortunately the tech startup is struggling and is said to be pulling the plug soon. For my next role I really want to be a Recruitment Manager but I know with this tough job market I don’t know if I have to already have Recruitment Manager as a job title on my resume. Can anyone give advice on how to stand out and transition from Recruitment lead to Manager and what might that will entail?

Thanks!!