How To Be A Better Recruiter with Mitch Sullivan
How to be a better recruiter – straight from the horse’s mouth.
If you haven’t listened to this podcast to hear Mitch Sullivan in conversation with Chris O’Connell, then you won’t have discovered:
– The distinction between a JD and a job ad
– Why Mitch switched from contingency to retained and then to recruiter training
– How (and why) to switch from contingency to retained
– What pisses Mitch off about the recruitment industry
– His criteria for assessing candidates
– How to use Linkedin for recruitment (including being humorous / controversial)
– Inhouse v agency recruitment
– ADHD and alcohol
– Mitch’s proudest moment (it might surprise you)
– What should recruitment agencies do that they’re not doing
– What advice would Mitch give to newbies
– How WFH has affected recruitment
– One core piece of advice
Here’s what Chris has to say about it:
“When Mitch started out in recruitment 30 years ago, he did the normal contingency consultant thing. He quickly realised there was a better way of doing things – After a move to Geneva, Mitch set up a different kind of search agency.
One that used innovative recruitment communications as it’s primary source of recruiting – something that proved very popular with the people they were trying to recruit! The agency combined hard-nosed commercial consultancy with creative recruitment marketing and led Mitch to where he is today.
If you’ve not come across Mitch on LinkedIn, I highly recommend you give him a follow. He’ll teach you a thing or two about your copy to candidates and clients, but his sarcastic and satirical take on the industry will make you howl!”
Recruitment Podcast BINGO
Award yourself 1 point each time Mitch says ‘nuanced’, ‘granular’, ‘Jackie’, ‘fundamental’, ‘candidate’, ‘bullshit’, or ‘I don’t know’.
When Jackie isn’t running recruiter copywriter training courses, you can find her on LinkedIn
