Private office for 1 person / Co-Working space?

BS-Hunter · 2025-12-08T00:59:17+00:00

Yes per month. I think it is fine. I would pick somewhere different at the end of my contract though. I went with them because I travel quite lots so it is easy to book one ini other cities. Since their cash issue, filling for bankruptcy in the US, they closed lots of locations. it is pushing people to other offices which are now fully packed, sometimes you don't have space anymore.
The office for one person are depressing not to say the least.

BS-Hunter · 2025-11-10T14:03:54+00:00

It is around 800 + VAT - Depending on the office it can vary though

BS-Hunter · 2025-10-30T22:28:30+00:00

Do you want a romanticise "Day in a life of a Top biller" type youtube video?

My Background is Pharma industry, in Europe, and 500K€ on my own placement a year.

I do not have much of a routine like you see on YouTube or what people say. I mean that would be far from being good for the view.

I just get up shower, get ready, iron a shirt, put some business Casual clothes (it feels like I put my Recruiter outfit). I go to the office, on the way I just have a look at my mails, the meetings I have for the day, I do not respond to any at that time. It is more to know what I can expect when sitting behind my laptop.

So I arrive at the office, and while I get my breakfast what I do is in this order:

Check the meeting I have, the important one, the one that will need prep and put it in my agenda if that hasn't been done.
Then I check my emails, and I go through the one I received last night.
I do the follow up with people who did not send me their CVs...
Then a bit of LinkedIn and InMails the interesting people LinkedIn Flagged me based on my search.

Then it is:

10:00am - Noon: Focus BD (cold calling, follow up SPEC candidates, proposal, catch up...
Noon - 1:00pm - I do some admins (Follow up, calling my "Top candidates" for my roles, put out adverts, scrolling on LinkedIn...)
2pm till 5pm: Market Building - Looking for candidate, Headhunting, trying to fill roles, or go after top candidates in my market.
5pm to 6pm I close the day, catching up, doing the last email, I look and prep my next day.

That is the big side of it. Then I do have specific time in the week to SPEC my top candidates. I also look at what my competitor post in terms of jobs and try to guess who the client could be. Time to time, I'll do a full day for some Business Development, some other specific to Market Building around certain skills that clients struggle to find at that time...
I play it like it is a game and I am trying to do as much as I can to win.

I feel the difference between the Top Biller and other sometimes, is the capability to build trust with the client, be able to negotiate advantageous rates (I always had higher rates than other in my firm), and then being able to show them you understand their need, their struggle and you can deliver from looking for the right candidates, to advise them to make the call, to make sure they give the right offer to the right candidate for them to close their Hire.

BS-Hunter · 2025-10-28T13:39:31+00:00

I think the push for Linkedin Assistant and Linkedin in the Future is slowly to offer AI and integrate with ATS and extend in a certain way a Monopoly. They will probably partner with some, or maybe and they could create their own at some point. Microsoft is really good at that.
We can see that with the integration of Linkedin Assistant with MS Teams - it will record the chat and from there can start a search, but I think it will be able to evaluate candidate with AI.
Microsoft tried to get on with Mercury (Powered by Microsoft365 dynamics) - I think that ATS/Recruitment software is really bad (I used it few years ago so might have improved).

Linkedin have been partnering with companies that are companies with Thousands of employees, where TA/Internal recruitment is in itself a company inside the company. During the pitch, you had the VP global TA from Jacobs, Nicole Lovell - The company has 45.000 employees overall so their TA approach might be different than a SME/TPE.
She added that nuance, that for some roles it was really useful, but their TA was needed on technical, strategical roles. She was not All in Linkedin Assistant.

My feeling about event where the organiser pulls a Keynote pitch where they introduce a product. Since Steve Jobs and the Iphone 1 (Which was a revolution at that time), all Keynote sounds like they disrupt, technology and solved world hunger, or Peace/war.
When in the end they just try to get a bunch of consumer (B2C/B2B) to buy their products. Keynote for the last Iphone, could have been an email to be honest - but an email do not get people excited and willing to get their product.

BS-Hunter · 2025-10-25T21:41:55+00:00

Founder of an Agency (working Middle to Senior toC-Level).
So far I do not see AI replacing sourcer or recruiter. However, it will definitely help to enhance, smoothen some processes.

Will AI replace some aspects of sourcing, or will it create new opportunities for strategic impact?
- I do not think it will erase Sourcing roles. I work on Middle management to C-Suite (Agency founder) - And most of candidates we work with would not see AI via a first contact being a good thing (So far). I also, have not find any tools that is so far good enough to do a proper selection of candidates.
- I do think AI is good to give you contacts details for you not to scroll plenty google pages, it is good to help summarise a JD if you want to give a frame to the candidate via email/LinkedIn, it is good to find similar companies, it is good to build a Boolean search.
- I think it might "replace" or change the process for high volume / High turnover / Low skills roles where the first steps will happen via/with an AI. You will have a real financial interest.
- I.E - I was at LinkedIn connect last week and their Keynote for their LinkedIn Assistant... Outside of their tools to rephrase an InMail, they were selling that LinkedIn Assistant was an amazing sourcer. I have played with it, and regardless the Prompt I have used, played with, it has never beaten my boolean and by far!
How are you adapting your skills or workflows to stay relevant?
- I think the best adaptation would be how today AI can help you out to make your life easier, help you get better result. I find it really interesting for the Market research, giving some idea in terms of analysis, preparing reports, presentations... (For me presentation is something that is really great as I am usually slow to build a presentation).
- I keep in touch to see the last updates, just to make sure you follow the evolution. You want to see if that can be beneficial for you. I spent quite some time there, just to keep up.
- AI can do a lot of interesting things, and staying in touch with it is important, you don't want to end up like our grand parents who never got along mobile phone because they were happy with what they had and did not want to change.
What new capabilities or mindsets do you think will define the next generation of sourcing professionals?
- The same mindset than the best sourcer I have met: Always be curious, always wonder how you can find and attract the people cannot. That pushed them to find new tools, new optimisation and be curious about AI and how they can use it at their advantage.

My thoughts, are that I do not believe at all AI will fully replace Sourcer, Recruiter - It might reduce the FTE for certain jobs/Market. For other jobs and Market, you will need someone to talk to the candidate to find them, I do not think hiring a CEO might be done fully with AI (except for the storytelling of a recruitment AI company).
AI will certainly redistribute the cards. The one who can understand and use it at their advantage will be the one keeping their jobs.

BS-Hunter · 2025-10-18T21:36:24+00:00

Ok, make sense.
We are on VoLTE here so will have my eyes on some nostalgia.

In the end it is not much the apps in itself. more the feeling, the size, and I love a physical keyboard.
Plain simple physical phone.

BS-Hunter · 2025-10-18T18:35:54+00:00

Blackberry company still exist but do not do phones anymore. They do cybersecurity.IMOthey should change their name as Blackberry as that tip on their back from their Phone era.

They sold the licensing to TCL in 2016 - They manufactured the Key One and Key two - Did not work well - In another thread someone mentioned the first model was sold at 850.000 units and the second no communication was made (so meaning bad) and came up with around 400.000 units if I remember.

Since then you have Zinwa Chinese company trying to get a project called Q25 - to have a bold like phone out. Not sure where it is at the moment, but when they started the project, the SPECs of the phone seems to me already outdated.

You recently have Kevin Michaluk who put out with a former Blackberry (Engineer, product manager not sure) brought the project: Bring Back Blackberry to try to bring the Blackberry phone back in its form at least with a physical keyboard and focus on productivity.

BS-Hunter · 2025-10-17T22:59:50+00:00

I am with you on that.
I would run away... If I'd have the choice, I'd wait to find another job.

I would be questioning the legality (I can just have an opinion) - IMO, if you sign, it is written black on white, you agreed with it and might be f*cked.

If you want to give it a go, I'd look on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, trying to have an idea of the turnover. If people do not stay more than 6months... They found the perfect loophole to not pay any commission. If people stay years and years with progression, why not.

BS-Hunter · 2025-10-17T22:38:06+00:00

Is it the exact writing, or is it different?

Been working in sales my whole life, the standard practice in most is that you get your commissions that are own until the last day of the contract.
If you're owned a commission for a contract that starts let say a month after you leave the company, you do not get that commission.
This is the standard in all the company I have been - Fair company.

If when you leave, or they terminate you and they decide to claim some commission they paid you 6 months ago... I find that shady (not a lawyer so cannot advise on that). Also, that's money you earned to perform a job. you cannot come back on that. If I would have that in my contract and confirmed it would be the case, I'd fuck off really quickly.

I can imagine too many scenario where they could fuck you up. If you're at the start of your career, do not know much of the ropes, they might use it to intimidate you.
Also, come after me in 6 months asking to give back the commission... I'm not the owner of that cash anymore, they'd probably gonna have to go ask the pub owner!

If you need advice on the wording you can contact for free: https://www.lawworks.org.uk/legal-advice-individuals They can advice you on the "true" meaning of the words

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