Ed Hunter: GIF of The Gab

It doesn’t take you long to know recruitment inside out. The hours are probably the main reason for that. By week two you’ve worked a regular person’s quarter.

It always pays however to look at recruitment from another angle.

You get new insights and new theories that make you more money and greater success.

Or, perhaps you’ll just agree with candidates that, actually, when it boils down to it, maybe we are all pricks?

Here are some different angles for you.

Hitting the Gym in your lunch hour…

Home Gym Fail GIF

When they interview through another agency

When you make Senior, but just get new business cards

When the weird guy in Finance tries to be cool

When you spend ages crafting the perfect InMail but they click ‘Not Interested’

When you slide into their DMs at the perfect time

When they say they’re taking the counter offer

When you’re the best Resourcer in the whole damn team

When the the £5k counter offer didn’t solve all their problems

Gill in Accounts after someone slips something in her coffee

Tuesday 10am

When two colleagues start having lunch together

Gardening leave

When someone asks why you work in recruitment

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